Marlboro smokers use IE

Posted By Slobodan Kovacevic on August 17, 2006

Today, I’ve stumbled upon real gem on Daily WTF blog. It appears that people at Marlboro are very concerned with web standards and they want their site to support all browsers… Or not.

As Daily WTF notes when you visit Marlboro.com with FireFox you only get a blank page. This effectively eliminates more than 10% of visitors. As if that’s not enough they also decided that usual redirection methods are not for them (for example, sending 300 response code, META refresh or setting window.location). They have some strange ideas on how people should be redirected.

  • create empty link
  • change it’s href
  • invoke click() method (IE only)

I guess that they though this is simpler and more effective.

If you’d like to see complete redirect code visit either Marlboro.com or The Daily WTF entry

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One Response to “Marlboro smokers use IE”

Anonymous says:
October 30th, 2006 at 7:48 pm

Marlboro should bring the miles back.

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