224137 - registerid.rbc.com - Proceed button broken on this page. Works fine in IE6 and Netscape 4.7x

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Shawn Wright]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Have tested with Mozilla 1.4 and 1.5, with clean profile, on NT and Win2K.
Proceed button does nothing, but works as intended in both NS 4.7x and IE6.
Cancel button does work as intended.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
Proceeded to https://registerid.rbc.com/rbcesec/register.jspx

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The page has the following code:

<input type="submit" name="proceed" id="proceed" value="Proceed" disabled>

And the following script:

function disable_enable(theFormElement)
{
	// if the surfer is using IE 4 or above
	if (document.all)
	{
		theFormElement.disabled=!theFormElement.disabled;			
	}
}

This whole mess works in IE, since IE implements the proprietary document.all.
It works in NS4 because NS4 does not support the "disabled" attribute on form
controls.

But in Mozilla the form control is disabled and the script doesn't reenable it
when you tick the checkbox (since Mozilla does not implement document.all).

Evang.  Shawn, it would help if you would mail the site maintainers and complain
about the problem...

Comment 2

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

WFM