85501 - al.com - Navigation Menus Non-functional layers

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P4)

Description

[TommyBee (No E-mail)]

Build 2001061205, Mac OS 9.1:

The navigation menus at the top of this page, which function fine under
Communicator 4.77, do not work at all under Mozilla.  I looked through their
source code and did find some indication of the use of layers, but none seemed
to be related to their navigation menus.

Comment 1

[Aaron Kaluszka]

Site uses unsupported document.layers and document.all, but not DOM standards
->Evangelism

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Aaron is correct: a lot of this is hidden in the included JavaScript 
files. For example, this one:

         http://www.al.com/dhtml/hnavbar/scripts/hGlobal.js



Here is the code from this file:


var ns;
var ie;
if (navigator.appName == 'Netscape'){
ns = true;
doc = document.layers;
style = '';
px = '';
//-------------------------------
left_start = parseInt(document.NAVSPAN.left) + 2;
top_coord = parseInt(document.NAVSPAN.top) + 2;
SG = '';
CBBeginLayer = '<LAYER';
CBTop = 'TOP=';
CBLeft = ' LEFT=';
CBEndLayer = '>';
CBCloseLayer = '</LAYER>';
CBBeginSubMenuLayer = CBBeginLayer;
CBEndSubMenuLayer = CBEndLayer;
CBBeginSubILayer = CBBeginLayer;
CBEndSubILayer = CBCloseLayer;
CBCloseTable = '';
eF = CBBeginSubILayer;
}
if (navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer'){
ie = true;
doc = document.all;
style = '.style';
px = 'px';
//-------------------------------
left_start = parseInt(NAVSPAN.style.left) + 2;
top_coord = parseInt(NAVSPAN.style.top) + 2;
SG = '<tr><td width=1><img src="/images/spacer.gif" height=2 width=1></td><td 
width=112><img src="/images/spacer.gif" height=2 width=112></td><td width=1><img 
src="/images/spacer.gif" height=2 width=1></td><td width=112><img 
src="/images/spacer.gif" height=2 width=112></td></tr>';
CBMouseOver = ' onmouseover="si_rovr()\;" onmouseout="si_rout()\;"';
CBBeginLayer = '<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0';
CBTop = 'STYLE="position\: absolute\; top\: ';
CBLeft = '\; left\: ';
CBEndLayer = '\; z-index\: 2"><TR><TD>';
CBCloseLayer = '</TD></TR></TABLE>';
CBBeginSubMenuLayer = '<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ';
CBEndSubMenuLayer = CBEndLayer + '<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 BORDER=0 
STYLE="z-index\: 1">';
CBBlankRow = '<TR><TD WIDTH=226 COLSPAN=5' + CBMouseOver + '><img 
src="/images/spacer.gif" height=1 width=226></TD></TR>';
CBBeginSubILayer = CBBlankRow + '<TR><TD WIDTH=1' + CBMouseOver + '></TD><TD ';
CBEndSubILayer = '</TD>';
CBCloseTable = '</TABLE>';
eF = '<TD WIDTH=1' + CBMouseOver + '></TD><TD ';
}

Comment 3

[Phil Schwartau]

Reassigning to Evangelism component -

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Evangelism Mac bugs -> emeyer

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

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

Comment 6

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

-> default owner

Comment 7

[TommyBee (No E-mail)]

Problem continues in Mozilla Firebird 0.6 and Camino build 2003052204 on Mac OS
X 10.2.6 -- and I think I've seen this same site template used on similar
news-oriented sites.

<shameless off-topic plug>
GO RUBEN!  OUR NEW AMERICAN IDOL!
</shameless off-topic plug>

(Sorry -- we in the Birmingham area are excited about that.)

Comment 8

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 9

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

fixed