110050 - noaa.gov - Javascript failure on login attempt

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P3)

Description

[Eric Kihn]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.5+) Gecko/20011113
BuildID:    20011113

When trying to login in on http://spidr.ngdc.noaa.gov/ the Javascript fails
under Mozilla, where as Netscape 4.x and IE 5.X seem to work fine.
For testing use the anonymous login.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. load http://spidr.ngdc.noaa.gov/
2. choose "login" as anonymous on left panel
3. Main panel changes (indicating login) but left panel does not update

Actual Results:  Failed to update login panel.

Expected Results:  The left panel should be filled with a new menu. This works
fine under Netscape 4.X and IE 5.x.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter
This is not mozilla's fault because the server send us document.Layer

JS Console:
Error: document.layers has no properties
Source File: http://spidr.ngdc.noaa.gov/spidr/toolbar.html
Line: 62


-> Evangelism

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Note: NN4.7 supported layers, but they are not W3C-standard HTML,
and are not supported in Mozilla/N6. <DIVS> should be used instead.
For a good reference on this, see

http://devedge.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/articles/updating-dhtml-web-pages

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Eric, do you understand the problem? Do you need further assistance ?
Marking assigned since the reporter is [a|the] owner.

Comment 4

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

mass resassign of all gov sites to the gov component. You may filter for 
these changes by searching for the string 
'wehaveagreatgovernmentintheusa'

Comment 5

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

menu is now a JSP and fails with 500, but only for Mozilla

Comment 6

[piers]

WFM, 2003032004/Win2K

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg