Wow... this is done by design?
Even worse than failure than I thought. Yikes. No wonder newer versions of IE now are trying to hide it >:)
Wow... this is done by design?
Even worse than failure than I thought. Yikes. No wonder newer versions of IE now are trying to hide it >:)
Yesterday I came across a site
(http://roha-getraenke.de/inhalt.htm) that, in my opinion, definitely
qualifies for being a WTF.
This thing opens fine in my Mozilla browser and I never noticed anything odd.
At one point I only had IE to my disposal and it totally freaked out
and blocked the site from loading an unsecure ActiveX control and never
showed the nav menu.
Curious as to why this might happen (since the site sports a pretty
straight forward html-only look) I took a quick look at the source and
stumbled right upon these lines
<p><applet
code="fphover.class" codebase="./" align="bottom" height="24"
width="120"><param name="textcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><param
name="color" value="#0099FF"><param name="hovercolor"
value="#00FFFF"><param name="effect"
value="reverseGlow"><param name="text" value="Unsere
Märkte"><param name="url" value="maerkte.htm"></applet>
</p>
No kidding... what could have been accomplished with a tiny bit of CSS was crammed into a fullblown java-applet.
Upon further inspection the header shows a clear indication of where the failure lies
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0">
Jeeeez .... there _are_ dumb (or at least totally clueless) people out
there ... and they have a tool and are not afraid to use it.