40981 - CNN Video page asks for CSS to be turned on

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

[Cyril Bortolato]

To reproduce: go to the above URL.
(this is the "CNN video" link on CNN home page)

Actual results:
I get a black page with the message:

CNN Videoselect requires Cascading Style Sheets.
Please turn them on in your preferences.

And then another page (cnn.com/video_vault) loads.
(is there a pref in mozilla to turn CSS on/off?)

With NN 4.7, cnn.com/videoselect page loads fine.

Expected results:
Mozilla supports CSS so I should not get such a message. I should get
the videoselect page, like in NN.

Platform:
2000-05-29-20 on Linux.

2000-05-19-13 also exhibits the problem, as does M14.

Comment 1

[Cyril Bortolato]

Adding 4xp keyword.

Comment 2

[WD]

When it loads the CSS stylesheet, it uses Javascript:
if (browser == 'ns4') { . . .

Therefore if you use Mozilla, it doesn't load the stylesheet.
CNN needs to fix their site for forward browser compatibility.

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

yep

Comment 4

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Reopened and reassigned to ekrock to evangelize CNN.

Comment 5

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Eric, we need your help to explain CNN/video everything about browser sniffing.

Comment 6

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Accepting, M18.

Comment 7

[chris hofmann]

evangelize component

Comment 8

[Eric Krock]

--> bclary in Evangelism for as-time-allows investigation & evangelism.

Comment 9

[Arun Ranganathan]

Bob Clary said this in an e-mail to me: 

"This evangelism bug was originally about the page not displaying at all, but it
displays fine now and I will be marking it fixed soon.

But when I actually try to view a video from the page RealPlayer does not
display the video but QuickTime does. I am not sure what to make of this. I
think I should file another bug on RealPlayer but don't know how to analyse the
problem. Can you help me triage this?"

I've noticed Real Player's reluctance to play as well.  Can someone shed some
light on what's going on?  Perhaps this ought to be a separate bug.

Comment 10

[shrirang khanzode]

there's a bug already filed under plugins for 'blank realplayer window on cnn' 
and 'realplayer movie streaming not happening' ( not the exact summaries). maybe 
you are seeing that.

Comment 11

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

The realplayer not playing issue is covered in
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83195.

Since the markup has been fixed I am changing this bug to fixed.

Comment 12

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.

Comment 13

[Christine Hoffman]

Changing QA contact to component qa

Comment 14

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

problem gone.