59388 - "Swing state polls" does not show anything

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[Keith Hankin]

Chart on specified URL titled "Swing state polls" does not show anything, even
when names of states clicked.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I can't find the chart you refer to with either Mozilla or Netscape 4.x....

Comment 2

[Keith Hankin]

Apparently, the chart has moved to another 
page: http://www.msnbc.com/news/337140.asp
Curiously, the problem no longer appears there.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Hmm..  I tried the chart, and I _do_ see the problem with linux trunk build
2000110521.

The problem I observe is that they have links with href="javascript:function()"
and they expect the function to get executed on the current document.  Mozilla
does not do so:

Error loading URL javascript:Swapcopy('keyStates',4);: 805303f5

While the proper way to do what they are doing is of course to have an onclick
handler for the link, should the href approach work as well?

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

over to DOM for evaluation.

Comment 5

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Mozilla does support href="javascript:function();" type links (the error message
is bogus, you always get that with javascript: URL's event if they work as
expected) so that's not the problem, I'm unable to find the chart on any of the
URL's mentioned here, I can't reproduce this problem.

Will mark INVALID unless someone points me to the chart...

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The chart seems to be gone...  msnbc is not very good at not changing its
content around. :(

Comment 7

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Ok, not much we can do then unless someone happens to have a local copy that
could be attached to this bug. Marking INVALD since there's no way to reproduce
this now, please reopen if a testcase appears...

Comment 8

[Fabian Guisset]

VERIFIED invalid