Bug 8946

Summary: new yahoo.com front page doesn't support Webkit
Product: WebKit Reporter: Alice Liu <alice.barraclough>
Component: WebKit Misc.Assignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal CC: thawkins
Priority: P2 Keywords: InRadar
Version: 420+   
Hardware: Mac   
OS: OS X 10.4   
URL: http://www.yahoo.com/preview

Description Alice Liu 2006-05-16 13:34:43 PDT
yahoo.com unveiled a new front page and they're blocking Webkit based browsers.  

<rdar://problem/4549681>
Comment 1 Alice Liu 2006-05-16 13:36:58 PDT
whoops, forgot to finish my thoughts...

yahoo.com unveiled a new interface today and they are blocking Safari, saying they support winIE and firefox 1.5.  they are pretty strict on the firefox 1.5, too, since spoofing as 1.0.3 didn't result in the new interface.  spoofing as winIE works, and I haven't found anything on the front page that doesn't work yet. 
Comment 2 Dave Hyatt 2006-05-16 13:56:45 PDT
The tour didn't work for me even when I spoofed as WinIE.
Comment 3 Maciej Stachowiak 2006-05-16 14:34:05 PDT
I tested a bunch, and the only obvious problem I could find was incorrect layout on the first step of the tour. Everything else seems to work ok.
Comment 4 Alice Liu 2006-06-28 12:56:17 PDT
removing hitlist keyword
Comment 5 Alice Liu 2006-06-28 13:08:01 PDT
whoops, re-adding hitlist keyword.  We're keeping the keyword on resolved bugs.  
Comment 6 Tim Hawkins 2006-07-18 02:59:31 PDT
The European versions of the new homepage are safari enabled, try http://uk.yahoo.com to see. 
Comment 7 Ilgaz Öcal 2007-03-26 08:26:38 PDT
The "New My Yahoo" which could be viewed via http://cm.my.yahoo.com complains about Safari current final version and Yahoo's new (?) suggestion system actually got an entry for it which Yahoo promises that it won't be "final" without Safari support based on the fact that many in house machines use Safari.

Related links:
http://cm.my.yahoo.com (subject to change when it is final)
http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=my&fid=10635 (The My Yahoo official suggestion board which Yahoo says "It is reviewed" and promises fix until final version shipped. It could be that they are waiting for Leopard Safari to work on issue (just a guess as old time yahoo user)

If you are a Yahoo user, you should vote for it since 29 votes sounds very low. I am posting this comment as an update to "New Yahoo" bug since I don't want to open a new bug entry for it. The "new my yahoo" and "new yahoo" are very related sites which you can figure after seeing the new "my yahoo".
Comment 8 Ilgaz Öcal 2007-03-26 08:35:26 PDT
apologies for forgetting a very critical thing. The "New My Yahoo" is actually at beta state right now and there are some actual bugs even with supported browsers.