Accessible Odeon Returns (Sort-Of)

Remember the plight of Matthew Somerville, a lone man who provided a version of Odeon accessible to all, particularly Firefox users? Odeon didn't like their horrible site being replicated in any accessible way (possibly their own version ended up being less popular?), so Matthew had to remove his work. However, he has now found a way around the problem.

Using Greasemonkey, a Firefox plugin which essentially enables DHTML, Matthew has created a script to run the menu of the Odeon website.

Read more about it over at the Accessible Odeon website.

Its a disgrace that a large company such as the odeon dont have pages compliant with all browsers.

If a site doesn't display/function correctly in firefox I would tend not to use the site in question be it retail or otherwise.

They should have had this sorted ages ago so theres no excuse for this one...

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Rabs

Its a disgrace that a large company such as the odeon dont have pages compliant with all browsers.

If a site doesn't display/function correctly in firefox I would tend not to use the site in question be it retail or otherwise.

They should have had this sorted ages ago so theres no excuse for this one...

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the ten-line fix for their javascript was first published in 2001

Code:

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        if (document.layers) {
            doc = 'document.';
            stylo = '';
            pxt = '.top';
            pxl = '.left';
            large = innerWidth; longue = innerHeight;
            window.captureEvents(Event.RESIZE);
            window.onresize = tienstoibien;
            n4 = 1;
            }
           
        if (document.all) {
            doc = 'document.all.';
            stylo = '.style';
            pxt = '.pixelTop';
            pxl = '.pixelLeft';
            n4 = 0;
            }

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should read as

Code:

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        if (document.layers) {
            // Navigator 4.x
            doc = 'document.';
            stylo = '';
            pxt = '.top';
            pxl = '.left';
            large = innerWidth; longue = innerHeight;
            window.captureEvents(Event.RESIZE);
            window.onresize = tienstoibien;
            n4 = 1;
            }
        else if (window.captureEvents) {
            // Netscape 6
            doc = 'document.';
            stylo = '.style';
            pxt = '.top';
            pxl = '.left';
            large = innerWidth;
            longue = innerHeight;
            n4 = 0;
            }
        else if (document.all) {
            // IE4+
            doc = 'document.all.';
            stylo = '.style';
            pxt = '.pixelTop';
            pxl = '.pixelLeft';
            n4 = 0;
            }

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i.e. their current javascript only detects netscape 4, or msie 3, and acts accordingly