104766 - willas-array.com - popup menus don't work, LAYERS

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect, P3)

Description

[Toylet]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
BuildID:    2001101117

the popup menu was listed as the top of the page, not like the corresponding 
scree of IE.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
just browse to http://www.willas-array.com

Comment 1

[Mike Schuette]

I'm not sure what to expect from this, but best I can say is worksforme win98
2001101003 ... I don't have the (chinese?) language pack installed in IE5, and
the page rendered and functions identically in IE5 and my moz build ...

Comment 2

[Toylet]

try to browse the webpage using IE.
there are popup menus on the map
(not listed above the map).

Comment 3

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Your friend cheated.  The URL in Moz goes to
http://www.willas-array.com/prod/welcome/welcome_net.htm .  In IE6 it goes to
http://www.willas-array.com/prod/welcome/welcome.htm .

Moreover, one of his functions in the Nav version is suspicious:

function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.0
  var p,i,x;  if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
    d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
  if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++)
x=d.forms[i][n];
  for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
  if(!x && document.getElementById) x=document.getElementById(n); return x;
}

(d has been declared as a global value for document.)  Note this line:
  for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) 

Looks like an evangelism issue to me.  This page was written for Netscape 4.x
browsers.  The Netscape 6.x / Mozilla edition is totally different.  As a
result, this page is throwing quite a few JavaScript errors for the unsupported
layer tag.

I'm going to cc Bob Clary, Netscape's Evangelism expert, on this one.  I'd
appreciate a second opinion.

Comment 4

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

After discussion in irc.mozilla.org, second opinions do state this is an
Evangelism bug.  Reassigning.  :)

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.0 works in dom html/core.

Comment 6

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

The problem occurs because the site is not sniffing for
Gecko-based browsers. Instead it is sniffing for IE, Netscape 6.x,
or Netscape 4.x. Thus if you access the site with Netscape 6.x 
browers, you get the right pop-up menu. If you access it with
Mozilla build of the same date, you get served 4.x page.

The site developer should read this useful document to correct
this problem:

http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/articles/find-gecko/

Comment 7

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Willas-Array Electronics has been contacted at:

[e-mail]

Accepting the bug ... will see how the website master responds to 
our request.

Comment 8

[Frankie]

Error: document.M1 has no properties
Source File: http://www.willas-array.com/prod/welcome/welcome_smallnet.htm
Line: 77

Comment 9

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

The problem is still there. The sit eis maintained by China & Hong Kong
entities. Moving to English-Other.

Comment 10

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

Looks fixed for me.

They are still saying "best viewed with IE 4.0", though.

Comment 11

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

WFM