12.31.09
Reminder: Year 2010 Bug Contest
This is a rather late reminder of the “pool” for the 2010 installment of the annual “we break our site for your browser when the new year rolls around” broken browser-sniffing contest (2010 Gecko browsers will be available in about 28 hours from now).
As I noted in January, the “three-peat” is Yahoo!’s to lose, although there was some talk last January of Yahoo! actually doing away with their date checking.
Get your picks in now for both the site/company that will break and the reporter of the Tech Evangelism bug who notices said site/company. (For the record, my picks are Yahoo! 
and Philippe Wittenbergh.) No actual prizes will be awarded, but both winners will be recognized in a future entry in this journal.
And remember: only you can prevent bad browser-sniffing!
12.31.09 at 2:47 am
I’m on it
. 5 hours 14 minutes to go for Yahoo Japan. Oh wait, that one is already br0ken for anyone with a non-firefox UA string (bug 487887).
12.31.09 at 8:50 pm
So, it is an interesting start of the year… Yahoo.com is not broken for those of us surfing around with an browser that contains 2010** in the UA string.
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Yay! Tech Evangelism sometimes gives good results
01.01.10 at 6:22 pm
Perhaps 2010 is the year we’ve graduated to new-year bugs of a different sort?
01.21.10 at 4:49 pm
Here’s a nice one: http://www.petefreitag.com/item/737.cfm
I bet there are other regexps that got broken too.
01.22.10 at 12:12 am
I had just about given up hope of there even being a New Year bug this year. Nice find, James!
02.07.10 at 11:21 pm
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