full-disclosure - Interesting side effect of the new IE patch

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From: dan_20407 at msn.com (DAN MORRILL)
Subject: Interesting side effect of the new IE patch

Ok,

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

maybe they redid the site?

r/
Dan





>From: Byron Copeland <nodialtone@...cast.net>
>To: BlueRaven <blue@...enconsulting.it>
>CC: full-disclosure@...ts.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@...t.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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