What not to do....

[Matt_Wade]

Just wanted to show everyone an example of what NOT to do to your pages. I was surfing around for some advertising agencys and came across one I had not seen before. Upon visiting their page in Mozilla, here is the page it directed me to:

<snip url>

... they give no way to enter their site unless I download an "prior version of Netscape" or MSIE.

Guess they lost my business...

[edited by: tedster at 1:38 am (utc) on Dec. 23, 2002]

[chameleon]

Well that's a first.

Instead of trying to get the visitor to get rid of Netscape 4.x, these bozos are trying to get them to go back to it.

Stupid is as stupid does.

[ScottM]

Matt,

Many companies/websites have odd items on their pages/site. This is not new and the link given may be considered a 'review this site' which is against the TOS of this website, to the best of my knowledge.

In short, it's best to remove the URL...before someone else does :)

[glengara]

I got the message "we detected you are using Netsape 6", I was using IE5.

[victor]

And I got a Javascript error followed by being told that I was using NN 6. I'm on Opera.

I guess these guys think they are so good that people are busting to get onto their site, so they don't need to male any concessions to the world outside their own desktop.

[Liane]

We have detected that you are using NetscapeŽ 6. This site has not been optimized for this version of Netscape.

What a hoot ... I tried it with Netscape 4.7! Something very wrong with their "detecting" abilities! :)

[tedster]

I've decided to lock this thread. I appreciate the sentiments- and the laugh - but I'd rather see the forum stay constructive.