set your UA to mozilla or IE and ask their webmaster why they ignore konqueror

Ok, using UA == IE 6 fixes it - thank you for that hint.
But, I still find it strange that KDE 3.1.x's Konq can display the page fine while KDE 3.2.0's Konq can't (when ID'ing as itself) - if the old version could handle what the server sends by default, what possible reason could there be for the new version to not handle the same page?

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*** Bug 75325 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

"when viewing the page source I can't seem to find that text anywhere... something seems to be wrong.."
They could easily be hiding the code in php or some other server scripting language. I myself have code like this preventing browsers from seeing my site if they identify themselves as IE.
On a related note it seems that that text only shows up w/ browsers identifying themselves as open source browsers (mozilla, konq, safari, lynx, w3m etc).
Opera and IE are the only ones that work.

Actually this is Konqueror that is no longer capable of rendering the Netscape version of the scripts. Identifying as IE solves the problem, but identifying as Mozilla does not.

After enabling KJS_VERBOSE I discovered that the default scripts that gets loaded by khtml in these sites is the Netscape version.

Even if these sites do not detect Konqueror explicitly I still believe khtml should be able to render the default Netscape code. Expecting websites to specifically recognize konquerors limitations is unrealistic.

I've attached the relevant "line" from loading www.computerworld.com with a Konqueror UserAgent. It contains the script which we unlike <www.computerworld.com/topnavbar/dqm_ie.js> cannot handle.

khtml (jscript): executeScript: caller='' filename=http://www.computerworld.com/topnavbar/dqm_ns.js baseLine=1 script=q39=null;q40=false;q41=null;q20=new Array();q21=new Array();q82=null;q93=null;q94=null;captureEvents(Event.MOUSEUP);window.onmouseup=mclick;if(!window.DQM_cancel_onload){captureEvents(Event.MOUSEMOVE);document.captureEvents(Event.ONLOAD);captureEvents(Event.RESIZE);window.onload=DQM_handleOnload;window.onmousemove=DQM_mousemove;window.onresize=DQM_resize;}document.write("<STYLE TYPE='text/javascript'>");q18=q100();for(var m=0;m<q18;m++)if(subExists[m])writeStyles(m+"");for(var j=0;j<q19.length;j++)writeStyles(q19[j]);document.write("</style>");for(m=0;m<q18;m++)if(subExists[m])q0(m+"");for(j=0;j<q19.length;j++)q0(q19[j]);var q34=new Array(q18);varq35=new Array(q18);var q36=new Array(q18);var q37=new Array(q18);;function writeStyles(mindex){q130=q15("DQM_text_alignment"+mindex,DQM_text_alignment);hltc=q15("DQM_hl_textcolor"+mindex,DQM_hl_textcolor);q144=q15("DQM_textcolor"+mindex,DQM_textcolor);sd="classes.qms"+mindex+".layer.textalign='"+q130+"';classes.qms"+mindex+".layer.fontstyle='"+DQM_fontstyle+"';classes.qms"+mindex+".layer.color='"+q144+"';classes.qms"+mindex+".layer.paddingleft="+DQM_margin_left+";classes.qms"+mindex+".layer.paddingright="+DQM_margin_right+";classes.qms"+mindex+".layer.paddingtop="+DQM_margin_top+";classes.qms"+mindex+".layer.fontsize='"+DQM_fontsize+"px';classes.qms"+mindex+".layer.fontweight='"+DQM_fontweight+"';classes.qms"+mindex+".layer.textdecoration='"+DQM_textdecoration+"';classes.qms"+mindex+".layer.fontfamily='"+DQM_fontfamily+"';";sd+=" classes.hlqm"+mindex+".layer.textalign='"+q130+"';classes.hlqm"+mindex+".layer.fontstyle='"+DQM_fontstyle+"';classes.hlqm"+mindex+".layer.color='"+hltc+"';classes.hlqm"+mindex+".layer.paddingleft="+DQM_margin_left+";classes.hlqm"+mindex+".layer.paddingright="+DQM_margin_right+";classes.hlqm"+mindex+".layer.paddingtop="+DQM_margin_top+";classes.hlqm"+mindex+".layer.paddingbottom="+DQM_margin_bottom+";classes.hlqm"+mindex+".layer.fontsize='"+DQM_fontsize+"px';classes.hlqm"+mindex+".layer.fontweight='"+DQM_fontweight+"';classes.hlqm"+mindex+".layer.textdecoration='"+DQM_hl_textdecoration+"';classes.hlqm"+mindex+".layer.fontfamily='"+DQM_fontfamily+"';";i=0;while(eval("window.DQM_subdesc"+mindex+"_"+i)){id=mindex+"_"+i;if(eval("window.DQM_subdesc"+id+"_0"))q19=q19.concat(new Array(id));i++;}document.write(sd);};function q0(mindex){i=0;level=1;while((i=mindex.indexOf("_",i+1))>-1)level++;bw=q15("DQM_border_width"+mindex,DQM_border_width);q50=q15("DQM_sub_menu_width"+mindex,DQM_sub_menu_width);bc=q15("DQM_border_color"+mindex,DQM_border_color);dh=q15("DQM_divider_height"+mindex,DQM_divider_height);sd="<layer id=qmevent"+mindex+" position=absolute z-index=900001"+level+" top="+0+" left="+0+" width="+(q50+2)+"visibility='hide'";sd+="></layer>";sd+="<layer id=qm"+mindex+" class='test' position=absolute z-index=900000"+level+" top="+0+" left="+0+" width="+q50+" visibility='hide'";if(bc!="transparent")sd+=" bgcolor="+bc;sd+=">";i=0;while(eval("window.DQM_subdesc"+mindex+"_"+i)){id=mindex+"_"+i;iid=-1;tval=eval("window.DQM_icon_index"+mindex+"_"+i);if((tval || tval==0)&& eval("window.DQM_icon_image"+tval)){iid=tval;q52=q33(eval("DQM_icon_image_wh"+iid));q51=eval("window.DQM_icon_rollover"+iid);}q47="position='absolute'left='"+bw+"' top='"+bw+"' width='"+(q50-(bw*2))+"'";q49="";if(iid>-1)q49="' border=0width='"+q52[0]+"' height='"+q52[1]+"'>";tmbgc=q15("DQM_menu_bgcolor"+mindex,DQM_menu_bgcolor);sd+="<layer class='qms"+mindex+"' id=qmitem"+id+" "+q47+" bgcolor='"+tmbgc+"'>";q130=q15("DQM_text_alignment"+mindex,DQM_text_alignment);q125="";if(iid>-1)q125+="<img src='"+eval("DQM_icon_image"+iid)+q49;tval=eval("DQM_subdesc"+id);(q130=="right")? sd+=tval+q125:sd+=q125+tval;q131="";q132="";q129="";q134="";tval=eval("window.DQM_2nd_icon_index"+mindex+"_"+i);if((tval || tval==0)&& eval("window.DQM_2nd_icon_image"+tval)){q126=tval;q127=q33(eval("DQM_2nd_icon_image_wh"+q126));q128=q33(eval("DQM_2nd_icon_image_xy"+q126));q129=eval("DQM_2nd_icon_rollover"+qkhtml (jscript):

While I would have _loved_ to make old NS4-5 ecma-script work ;-)  I found that the following patch adapted and corrected from Safari is a much easier trick. I've verified that is works with my test-cases of www.computerworld.com, www.sco.com and www.journalism.sdu.dk. 

I believe it is safe to spoof "Product" since the recommended way of detecting Konqueror is to look for it in UserAgent or look for "KDE" Vendor. And as I said Safari does it.

--- kjs_navigator.cpp   12 Jul 2004 19:49:09 -0000      1.74
+++ kjs_navigator.cpp   20 Sep 2004 21:26:00 -0000
@@ -193,11 +193,19 @@ Value Navigator::getValueProperty(ExecSt
     // We assume the string is something like Mozilla/version (properties)
     return String(userAgent.mid(userAgent.find('/') + 1));
   case Product:
-    return String("Konqueror/khtml");
+    // When spoofing as IE, we use Undefined().
+    if (userAgent.find(QString::fromLatin1("Microsoft")) >= 0 ||
+        userAgent.find(QString::fromLatin1("MSIE")) >= 0)
+    {
+        return Undefined();
+    }
+    // When acting normal, we pretend to be "Gecko".
+    return String("Gecko");
+//    return String("Konqueror/khtml");
   case ProductSub:
     {
       int ix = userAgent.find("Gecko");

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