79972 - microsoft.com - Page not rendering correctly

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P1)

Description

[xtim]

On the left hand-side of this page, there are pseudo menus which display with a
small + sign which can be openned when using MS IE, on Netscape these display as
expanded menus on Mozilla .9 these do not work using either method.

Comment 1

[Jason Johnston]

I'm sure we've sent a thousand evangelism messages to Microsoft already, anyone
want to send another?

Reporter: FYI, this page does "not work" in Mozilla because Microsoft uses
non-standard Object Models for their dynamic content. Mozilla only supports the
W3C standard Document Object Model (DOM) and therefore "fails" on sites that use
only proprietary Object Models.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Actually, in this case they _are_ using the W3C DOM...  All the submenus start
with display:none.  Then we have:

function tier1Menu(objMenu,objImage) {
    if (bDoesAll | bIsMac) {
        if (objMenu.style.display == "none") {
            objMenu.style.display = "";
            objImage.src = "/java/graphics/minus.gif";
        }
        else {
            objMenu.style.display = "none";
                        objImage.src = "/java/graphics/plus.gif";
        }
    }
}

and above that:

bDoesAll = (bIsIE4 || bIsIE5 || bIsIE6) && !bIsMac;

This would work just dandy in Mozilla if they would just update their bDoesAll
to reflect reality.

This is _so_ evangelism!

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

contacted 7/6/01 using their web feedback form. Marking assigned to indicate
they have been contacted.

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

I have contacted Microsoft concerning these problems however due to external
factors it is clear that Evangelism is not an appropriate method of contacting
them concerning problems with their content.

Marking WONTFIX.

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

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

Comment 6

[Brant Gurganus]

Verified per instructions at http://mozilla-evangelism.bclary.com/evangelism.html