Windows-Only Web Sites

[bradmiller at dslonramp.com]

This is the "evil" that comes from Microsoft deciding on what is "good for
the people".  You can have spaces in an URL with MSIE also, and for the
people on that browser, pages come up fine.  If you are on a non-IE browser
the URL is truncated to the first space and your link no-workie.  It's like
the automatic typo fixing crap . . . once people are coddled they are like
"why doesn't everyone do it this way?"  

Original Message:
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From: Hal Duston hduston at speedscript.com
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: Windows-Only Web Sites

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.


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