199003 - English Al Jazeera website articles don't load

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Arabic, defect)

Description

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

The page is basically empty, and relies on script to load stuff and redirect the
page. Unfortunately the script starts with:

var xml = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");

which will immediately throw an exception in Mozilla, and therefore we will not
show anything.

Comment 1

[guanxi]

The front page works now.  It's the articles that don't work:

It displays the basic visual structure of the page (banner, mail/print links,
borders), the headline, but no article.

Works fine in IE 5.0

Moz 1.3 final on Win2K

Comment 2

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Morphing bug to reflect the fact that articles don't load.

Comment 3

[Phillip Stewart :P]

The problem is this:

<input id="articalText" type="hidden" value="<SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE:14 pt;
FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US&quot;>

The entire article body is in the VALUE of a hidden INPUT. The INPUT VALUE is
never closed by a " until after the article body. All " in the article body,
even in the HTML elements, are escaped as &quote;

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 200761 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** Bug 200799 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 200855 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[gavin long]

To continue from comment 3:

The page then attempts to use document.all manipulation to copy the hidden input
value into the page body.

The whole page is riddled with MS-XML-isms.

Comment 8

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 201351 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 201540 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Mike Owen]

This is confirmed in both Linuz 1.3 versions, WinXP 1.3 and 1.4a.
Both IE and KDE-Konqueror load these articles.

Comment 11

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 202043 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 202263 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Sébastien Delahaye]

*** Bug 202275 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Phillip Stewart :P]

Looks like it is fixed.

The code the manipulate the article body that is the value of a hidden input has
changed to:

if (navigator.appName.indexOf('Microsoft') != -1) 
{
	//thisbrowser="ie"
	if(document.all.artical)
		document.all.artical.innerHTML = document.all.articalText.value ;			
}
else
{
	//thisbrowser="NN6";
	if(document.getElementById("artical"))
		document.getElementById("artical").innerHTML =
document.getElementById("articalText").value ;	
}

But images in articles are broken in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0;
en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030410 Phoenix/0.5+

Choosing View Image from the context menu works though.

Comment 15

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Images seems to work now - but I'm using an old build (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh;
U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130).

Comment 16

[Leonard Norrgård]

Confirm fixed on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030319
Debian/1.3-3.

Comment 17

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

The top left banner says "This temporary site is partially on hold until we
launch the full and permanent site of english.aljazeera.net at the end of
April... ..."

Might be better to leave the bug open until the permanent site is launched?

Comment 18

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

I am going to move this to Arabic category. Though the site is in
English, we might be better off in Arabic category to get a volunteer or
two to work on this site in case intial suggestions don't work.  

Comment 19

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

The new site is up now. Everything seems to work.

Comment 20

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Yup, wfm too