Closed Bug 161139 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Yahoo Java Chat applet only displays as a small box

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Product:
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
Component:
English US
Platform:
x86
Windows 98
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 160800

People

(Reporter: ncmacasl, Assigned: arun)

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Details

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721
BuildID:    2002072104

Yahoo Java Chat applet (in Yahoo!Groups) only displays as a small box making it
useless -- should be almost full width of screen and 1/3 length

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go To Groups.yahoo.com, and select any group, join the group, click on   
"Chat" 
2. Chat applet loads, but is a small screen.

applet works fine in Chat.yahoo.com

Actual Results:  Chat applet loads, but is a small screen.

Expected Results:  should like like it does in Chat.yahoo.com  Also Netscape 4.x
loads it (YahooGroups!Chat) just fine!!
do you have to have a yahoo account to use this chat thingie?
anyway, can you provide a direct url that shows the problem and/or a testcase?
(save page and attach it to the bug if that works)
Summary: Yahoo Java Chat applet only displays as a small box → Yahoo Java Chat applet only displays as a small box
I see this for the <applet> tag on a yahoo chat group.

<applet mayscript codebase="http://cs8.chat.sc5.yahoo.com/c174/" 
        code=y.ch.0 archive="chat.jar" name=chat 
        width="&{innerWidth-160};" height="&{innerHeight-200};">

and noting the 4.x'ish |width="&{innerWidth-160};"|. So, the question is 
whether we support that syntax. If not, then -> Evang.
Assignee: hewitt → beppe
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: JavaScript Console → Plug-ins
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: jrgm → shrir
hmm, I an honestly say, I have never seen an applet width and height defined
like that before - is that really supposed to work?

Arun/Shrir -- have you ever seen this type of coding before?
*no*
It's an obscure syntax related to 'javascript style sheets', I seem to recall. I 
can't find a precise reference for it. The closest match is this: 
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/communicator/dynhtml/layers32.htm#1038571
I don't think this has been "grandfathered" in general (nor would I expect it to
be).

Well it certainly is not inline with HTML coding standards. I would suspect that
this would render appropriately if it were coded in respect to the W3C coding
practices.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
-> evang

No, I don't think we should fix this (be backward compatible on this obscure 
feature). But if yahoo is using this in high profile quantities, then we do 
need to do something about it.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Component: Plug-ins → US Ecommerce
Product: Browser → Tech Evangelism
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
Version: other → unspecified
-> evang
Assignee: beppe → aruner
Status: REOPENED → NEW
QA Contact: shrir → bclary
*** Bug 161210 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 142076 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There was some interesting discussion with relation to this bug in bug 142076
Blocks: 121228

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 160800 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago → 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
No longer blocks: 121228
tech evang june 2003 reorg
Component: US Ecommerce → English US
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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