Closed Bug 6072 Opened 26 years ago Closed 25 years ago

[USERAGENT] Problems with www.ibm.com

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P3)

x86
Windows 98
defect

Tracking

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VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: navidazizi, Assigned: ekrock)

References

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Details

(Whiteboard: Page currently uses HTTP_AGENT and serves old page)

I went to www.ibm.com with both mozilla M5 and Netscape Communicator 4.51 and there is a large difference in the presentation of the mage. M5 does not have the background colours correct. The IBm site is made with tables so I assume there is something wrond with the background colours of table cells. keep up the good work
The primary reasons for the differences in appearance are: 1) IBM server-side is not recognizing UA of 'Mozilla/5.0' and serving different content to 4.5 versus 5.0 2) Raptor table handling is more accurate than 4.5 3) Raptor support of CSS is better. So, this is largely a duplicate of bug #3688 (which tracks 'Mozilla/5.0' issues) or bug #2693 (the original report where some of the reasons were documented -- I have other notes in email to claudius). However: there are also a few additional known bugs exhibited in the page (e.g., <IMG HEIGHT=1> inside TD is 'over-height', <input type=image> in table is vertically aligned too low, as well some transient image loading problems (amplified by the 'new' way of using ALT attributes on images). So, to mark duplicate? or to leave open as 'that IBM page' bug.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M8
Assignee: karnaze → ekrock
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Summary: Doesn't catch the background → Problems with www.ibm.com
Whiteboard: Page currently uses HTTP_AGENT and serves old page
Eric: This page uses HTTP_AGENT to serve us a different page. Could you evangelise please? Once they have fixed the problem (i.e., once they serve us a decent page, with stylesheets and the works), assign the bug to me and I'll see if there are any remaining problems. Thanks.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Summary: Problems with www.ibm.com → [USERAGENT] Problems with www.ibm.com
Target Milestone: M8 → M15
Have evangelized this; reassigning to M15 for tracking purposes only. I believe that this page may have been fixed by now.
IBM is still serving an HTML 3.2 page to Mozilla 5, despite undisputably recognizing Mozilla/5.0 as the UA (View Source to see). If the page sent to Nav 4.7 is viewed in Mozilla, it looks correct (except for the missing images). Time to re-evangelize, pre beta? Tested with 1999-11-12-18-M11 and 1999-11-13-09-M12 nightly binaries on Windows NT.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Page looks fine in M12. I have no time to lobby individual sites for Nav5-specific enhancements; I'm only notifying developers of situations where their page is breaking. INVALID.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Verified invalid.
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