[SGVLUG] PHPWebSite test themes

Emerson, Tom Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com
Tue Jul 12 09:35:16 PDT 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of Dustin
> 
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Tom Emerson wrote:
> 
> > well... one of the themes did a bit of a nasty sort of thing -- it 
> > detected that I was using IE and did a redirect to 
> browsehappy.com --
> 
> What, and you didn't take the advice you found there?  Shame. 
> kick your shameful IE addiction and install Firefox 
> everywhere, we'll let you back in the club. :-)

Actually, my browser of choice under linux is Konquerer, but I don't
think there is a windows port...

> Well, OK, that's unacceptable behavior.  Ironic, funny even, but
> unacceptable. :-)

yes -- I was thinking about it on the drive to work and realized that
this is exactly counter to what we, as an advocacy group, should do --
we WANT people to view our site with IE because they are our "potential
converts" -- while it's a bit of a chuckle for an experienced user to
get trapped by a mere theme, it also means that our "site" would 
dissappear off the map for an end-user should they happen to try the
theme.
 
> Which theme?  Best I just delete it, we don't want that 
> happening anyway.

not sure -- I was going from the top on down, I know I got past "cool",
but I wasn't really paying attention to theme names when I ran into 
this -- perhaps a grep against the theme directory for "browsehappy" 
would find the culprit...

actually, since I'm at work, I just created another account and checked.
the one that clobbered me was "debug" (and since I cannot get back to 
the site to change it or even log out, I'd sure appreciate it if you
could reset this for me -- if that's not possible, kill my accounts
and I'll restart anew...)


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