Comment Re:Compatability still a big problem? (Score 1) 137
OK full details:
1. Mom finds sight that sells stuff to only retailers (not a problem as she runs a store and this would be good for the store).
2. Fills out stuff, gets a username and password.
3. Go to sign in, prices don't work. She complains and they ask what version of IE she is running? (She's running Firebird 0.7 aka Firefox 0.7 IIRC)(It's a Win95 machine that my parents don't feel like moving off of quite yet. It is hidden behind a firewall)
4. I look at it. Sign in page is located like "/sys/login/" or something.
5. When You login the cookie sent back from their server has "path=", So no path. (Yes, it has "path=;" in it) Spec I can find (and Firefox and Opera seem to follow) is that if no path is specified, then you use the path of the page. IE does something else.
6. Attempt to view page with prices located at like "/catalog/". IE shows prices because it is sending the cookie. Firefox and Opera don't send the cookie because the path is different.
7. We email back to them what I found, haven't heard anything back yet.
At least, this is my best guess as to why the prices show up in IE (tested with 5.5 and 6, don't have access to 7), and not Firefox or Opera.
An IE requiring site because of the way the path in the cookies is set.