87376 - MSDN search button does not work

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Matt Seitz]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.1+) Gecko/20010622
BuildID:    2001062204

Pressing the "Search" button at the MSDN search page does not work.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to http://search.microsoft.com/us/dev/ 
2.  Enter any text in the Search text box
3.  Press the Search button

Actual Results:  Nothing happens, display remains unchanged.

Expected Results:  Results of MSDN search should be displayed

Problem also occurs using Milestone 0.9.1 build, does not occur with Internet
Explorer 5.5.  Microsoft recently revised the MSDN site, including the MSDN
search page.  This problem occurs with the current MSDN search page.

Comment 1

[basic]

Build 2001062204
When I click on the seach button this appears in the javascript console:

Error: frm.elements.ig[zz] has no properties
Source File: http://search.microsoft.com/us/dev/
Line: 206

Comment 2

[basic]

This was found on the page, if I'm not mistaken this causes the javascript to
try to access a non existing element?

for (zz = 1; zz<frm.elements["ig"].length+1;zz++)
{
if (frm.elements["ig"][zz].checked == false)
{
intCatSelected++;
if (intCatSelected == frm.elements["ig"].length)
{
alert( H_NoCatSelectedError_Txt);
return;
}
}
}


When I changed

for (zz = 1; zz<frm.elements["ig"].length+1;zz++)

to

for (zz = 0; zz<frm.elements["ig"].length;zz++)

it seems to work

so is this evangelism?

Comment 3

[timeless]

it probably needs to use document.getElementById() or something.

Comment 4

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

also, ns4 fails.

Comment 5

[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 6

[Matt Seitz]

I do not see the problem using build 2001070604.

Comment 7

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

yup, this seems fixed

Comment 8

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

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

Comment 9

[Brant Gurganus]

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