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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Interesting side effect of the new IE patch



Ok,

Had to try it, clicked on buy@fiat and ended up here http://fiat.com/home/New.asp

maybe they redid the site?

r/
Dan





From: Byron Copeland <nodialtone@comcast.net>
To: BlueRaven <blue@ravenconsulting.it>
CC: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Interesting side effect of the new IE patch
Date: 06 Feb 2004 13:04:32 -0500

I agree, I went to that site... I'm not for interpretation of Italian,
but when using Mozilla 1.5 I get the same result.  Also I believe the
page says I have to use Internet Exploder 3.0 (or higher) or Netscape
Navigator 3.0 (or higher).

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 11:20, BlueRaven wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:54:33PM -0500, Cael Abal wrote:
>
> > It amazes me what sorts of supremely goofy ideas come to fruition --
> > http://buy@fiat.com ? That was a horrible idea, and the tech person
> > who signed off on it absolutely deserves the wrath of Fiat.
>
> Oh, well... this is just the iceberg's peak.
> Try to buy a car on that site and you'll receive a "sorry, you're using a
> nerd browser", unless you're using IE.
> I tested it with my Mozilla 1.5b and it was classified as "low end browser"
> in the URL.
> They call it "configurator"... I call it "how to lose potential customers".
> ;-)
> This is what happens when de facto standards are blindly followed.


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