104116 - netscape.com - something in Javascript engine broken ... (reference the URL link provided)

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[GA]

Hello Mozilla Browser --

Please check the following link with both Mozilla and Navigator v4.7x :

http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/directory/41/ag/contents.htm

Click _once_ on "contents" link.  A "contents" layer appears in Navigator v4x 
but nothing happens with Mozilla.  

Note:  exact source of Mozilla problem is unknown.  -GA

Comment 1

[GA]

specifically, I'm talking about the "contents" link in blue box in upper left
corner of URL provided.  

The layer appears with _one_ click (on Navigator 4x) but nothing with Mozilla.

-GA

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Not a JS Engine bug.

JS Console: 
Error: document.layers has no properties
Source File: 
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/directory/41/ag/contents.htm
Line: 31

A part of the source :

 if (navigator.appName == "Netscape") { 
        layerStyleRef="layer."; 
        layerRef="document.layers"; 
        styleSwitch=""; 
        visibleVar="show"; 
    } else { 
        layerStyleRef="layer.style."; 
        layerRef="document.all"; 
        styleSwitch=".style"; 
        visibleVar="visible"; 

Mozilla's Appname=Netscape->Layer (document.all is not better)-> Evangelism (LOL 
!)

Comment 3

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

This is a us site->us. This is 4.x stuff which should probably go away, 
shouldn't be too hard to evangelize though ;)

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

[e-mail]: 
FYI : Mozilla doesn't support Layer because it's not a W3C standard...

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

this is old legacy content which will not be updated. See
http://sbs.netscape.com/ for related, support products.

Comment 6

[GA]

I verified this works in both Nav4 and IE5x (unsure about IEv6).

I would propose that "standards" are often defined by what is adopted and used
in th industry.   W3C can take the higher ground -- for whatever technical
reason -- but often end-user experience suffers in such "arguments".    

I've _never_ had a reason to use IE until now... -GA

Comment 7

[Brant Gurganus]

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