112705 - cannot write to frames in new window

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Stephen Sottong]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4)
Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2
BuildID:    6.2

This page works properly in IE5-6, NS4 and Opera 5-6.  When the Pharos link at
the bottom of the page is clicked, a new window should pop up and be populated
with two frames which initially display "Please Wait".  This part works in NS6.
 After the Please wait, the individual frames should be populated; the top frame
with a button, and the bottom frame with the opening page for Pharos.  This does
not happen.  There is a javascript error saying that "NewWindow.document.F1 has
no properties".  F1 is the name of the top frame.  NS6 either doesn't recognize
the frames or doesn't think they have properties.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open page
2.click on Pharos link
3.check the Javascript console

Actual Results:  frames fail to populate

Expected Results:  frames should populate with button on top and web page on bottom

works perfectly in IE 5-6, NS4, Opera 5-6

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Which link is the "Pharos" link exactly?

Comment 2

[Fabian Guisset]

Reporter could you please tell us where the Pharos link is? We can't find it on
the page mentionned in the URL field above. Also you may want to try with a
nightly build instead of NS6.2 to see if we have fixed it since then.
Thanks in advance.

Comment 3

[Stephen Sottong]

It seems I made a mistake on the URL.  The URl of the test page should be:

http://www.calstatela.edu/library/bi/ssotton/unioncat2ns6.html

Apologies.

Steve

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Ok.  Worksforme with a current nightly, but this could be a timing issue, I
guess...

Comment 5

[Stephen Sottong]

Boris' comment seems to indicate that the problem has been solved in a later
build.  Will there be a release version soon?

Comment 6

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

WORKSFORME too.