153304 - Walla.co.il - forums javascript only works in MSIE

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Hebrew, defect)

Description

[Omer P.]

in the next message i'll attach a picture. look at the left for the red markers.
u should click there and a set of icons should show up - it doesn't....

(the site is in hebrew)

omer.

Comment 1

[Omer P.]

Attachment: the screenshot of the site

this is the picture with the red markers where u should click and get the
windows with set of icons...the windows does not load.

omer.

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

This is not a JavaScript Engine issue. JavaScript Engine deals with the
abstract JavaScript programming language. Specifically, the low-level 
objects such as String(), Number(), and Date(). The JS Engine is not itself 
aware of browser or DOM objects like window, document, sockets, etc.

Reassigning to Layout for further triage, but we need to know more.
Omer:

1. What build ID of Mozilla were you using? Please include that 
   in any bug report; thanks -

2. The page in your screenshot does not look like the page I see
   when I go to the URL you have given. I don't read Hebrew, but
   it looks like I get sent to a general login page. There are only
   two texboxes on the page I see, on the right side of the page.
   They look like they are for UserID and Password. If we need an
   account to see this bug, could you set one up for us? Say, with
   
                       UserID=mozilla
                       Password=bugzilla

   Thanks, that will help us - 

Comment 3

[Omer P.]

ok. here is the update:

my build id is 2002053012.

for www.walla.co.il forume use:

user name: mozilla
password: bugzilla

you will than be able to view the page i sent u.

sorry for that :)

omer.

Comment 4

[Phil Schwartau]

Confirming bug. When I login to the site using the test account,
I click on the link Omer has indicated in the screenshot in Comment #1.
I get this error in the JavaScript Console:


Error: document.all has no properties
Source File: 
http://community.walla.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=f/m/edit&father_id=6889546&forum_id
=1671&cat_id=310
Line: 133



The function triggered by the link is this one:


function layerVisibility(layer_name,status)
{
  if(status>0)
    eval("document.all."+layer_name+".style.display = 'block'");
  else	
    eval("document.all."+layer_name+".style.display = 'none'");
}



Note that |document.all| is IE-only, non-W3C syntax. So they 
have written this in a way that will only work in IE.

Reassigning to Tech Evangelism so the site can be contacted -

Comment 5

[Shoshannah Forbes]

Contact info:
http://community.walla.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=feedback/edit

Comment 6

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 7

[Jan Moesen]

This can be resolved WORKSFORME thanks to the splendid document.all patch.

Comment 8

[Boaz Dodin]

WORKSFORME
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1 ID:2006120418

Comment 9

[Oren Held]

Please close this one, for it's been five years since the WORKSFORME

Comment 10

[Omer P.]

Since this one was opened, a lot changes were made to the site mentioned in this bug. It is not relevant any more as they changes the layout of the site. Thanks.