[muglo] Re: MS IE and their default web page

Although, at least it works on IE for Mac. That won't formally be an
option come the end of the year since MS is pulling all IE downloads.

FYI Konqueror for KDE 3.3 (YDL 4.0.1) DOES handle the link properly
(which I find a little odd b/c Konq and Safari both use the KHTML
rendering engine... hmmm).

Eric.

On 12/20/05, David Rice <davidrice@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The code also breaks Camino on the Mac and Firefox and Netscape for
> PC (likely use the same JS engine) and probably others. Comes up with
> a "window.navigate" is not a function. A little messing around with
> the way the "navigate" function is accessed will probably fix it.
>
> Just another example of the peculiar way MS has implemented JS vs the
> rest of the world and another example of lazy web developers building
> a site and testing it on IE only. And I would bet that they never
> tested it on IE for the Mac at all...
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
> On 20-Dec-05, at 12:02 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:
>
> > Anyone HTML/JavaScript coders know why the following code "breaks"
> > FireFox and Safari?
> >
> > <IMG style=3D"CURSOR: hand"
> > onclick=3D"JavaScript:window.navigate('http://www.photolab.ca/en/Shop/
> > dealerlocator.asp');"
> > height=3D54 src=3D"images/Footer-02.gif" width=3D380 >
> >
> > If I copy and paste the URL contained, the store locator is pulled up.
> > If I click on it, as I'm supposed to, it breaks.
> >
> > Just fired off another e-mail to Loblaws/Photolab.ca. Doubt it'll do
> > much, but, maybe, just maybe they've got someone who has the sense to
> > forward my comment to their web master.
> >
> > Eric.
> >
> > On 12/20/05, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> And, here's the reason that MS formally abandoning IE sucks
> >> (slightly):
> >>
> >> <http://photolab.ca/Brand/en/PhotolabHP.asp>
> >>
> >> Click on "Locate your nearest Photolab pick-up location". This link
> >> only works in IE 5.2.3 :-( :-( :-(.
> >>
> >> Neither FireFox 1.5 nor Safari 2.0.2 work. I've fired off a
> >> comment to
> >> Loblaw's "question" e-mail but doubt it'll do much. Perhaps it would
> >> also be worth reporting this "broken" link to Safari's feedback agent
> >> and to FF?
> >>
> >> Eric.
> >>
> >> On 12/20/05, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> Hi all, if you want a chuckle, fire up IE 5.2.3 (if you have it
> >>> installed under your OS X (if you have OS X installed ;-)) and go to
> >>> IE's default home page (www.msn.com).
> >>>
> >>> There's a reason MS is dropping support for IE 5.2 ;-P
> >>>
> >>> It can't even render its own default home page properly!
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