Closed Bug 55897 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Page load fails when targetting containing frame from nested frame.

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Images, Video, and HTML Frames, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Images, Video, and HTML Frames
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 52898

People

(Reporter: whovingh, Assigned: pollmann)

References

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Details

In a nested frameset, a link in one of the inner frames seeks to open a new page (not containing a frameset, in this instance) in the frame containing the inner frameset. The entire frame freezes. The rest of the outer frameset is OK, and the same link, with the same named target, works as expected. Could be that one is not supposed to do this with HTML, and frames are evil anyway, but I've encountered it in a commercial web product (Novell's GroupWise Web Access).
I 'm not getting a freeze but the frame area is not load the source correctly.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Checked on 2000100910 builds. Tested on Window 98 and Mac OS 9.
Seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do. I am able to reproduce this also, FreeBSD - the "freezing" is a failure to repaint a frame that has failed to load a URL and is an already reported as bug 5569. Should look into why this page is failing to load, but it's doubtful we'll get this in for rtm.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
OS: Windows NT → All
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: Opening new page in nested frame freezes frame → Page load fails when targetting containing frame from nested frame.
This sounds a lot like bug 52898. Is this a dup?
Novell's Groupwise has a very large installed base. If it is broken, you should really consider rtm+ for this bug.
Yes, this is a dup of 52898. I didn't find that one when I tried to submit it b/c the summary of 52898 talks about problems at login on a particular site, rather than the nested-frame problem. I don't know how much of GroupWise's installed base of users actually use the WebAccess component, but GWWA certainly breaks on this bug, and for this user would nearly block me from using Moz as my sole browser.
I am duping this to Bug 52898 and I will put the URL for this bug there also. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 52898 ***
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Verified, this is a duplicate of bug 52898 "Nested framesets with form when target is outside frame - hangs."
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
Component: Layout: HTML Frames → Layout: Images
Product: Core Graveyard → Core
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