Windows-Only Web Sites

[Hal Duston]

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 08:38, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> This weekend I encountered http://www.portablelink.com.  Their site works 
> great, except the "add to cart" button doesn't appear unless I use IE.

Do you get the broken icon in Mozilla that I do?

http://www.portablelink.com/catalog/..%5Ccatalog_images%5Cadd2cart.gif

is the url for it.

Notice that it is using the backslash seperators instead of the the
slash seperators for directories.  In looking at the html, the img src
is specified as "..catalog_imagesadd2cart.gif", which generates the
above url in Mozilla, and other Unix originating clients.  I'm betting
that I.E. fixes the url, and generates the url of 

http://www.portablelink.com/catalog_images/add2cart.gif

instead which is indeed a valid image with "Add to Cart" in it.