105717 - mac.com - Apple's iTools Homepage doesn't draw images when image clicked

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

[Adam Masri]

Platform; PowerBook G3/300/192Mb/48Gb, MacOS X 10.1
Fizzilla Build: 2001101905

Apple's iTools web pages aren't displaying pictures correctly. Try the following;

1) Launch Fizzilla.

2) Go here.

http://homepage.mac.com/jtyzack/PhotoAlbum.html

3) Click a picture.

What happens: a new window opens, but doesn't display the picture.

What should happen; The picture and summary should be displayed.

This works in Netscape 4.7.

- Adam

Comment 1

[Chris Petersen]

Yes, I noticed this a few days ago too when Apple revised Homepage's features.
This is the new "slideshow" presentation feature which is now default I believe.
The problem is the HTML source is using using lots of ilayer/layer tags which
are  proprietary elements. 

Comment 2

[Chris Petersen]

Changing to All platforms since the page content uses ilayer tags and is not a
Mac OS X only issue.

Comment 3

[lchiang]

cc: aruner and chrisn.  Should this be an evangelism item?

Comment 4

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Reassigning to evangelism since this is a ilayer/layer issue.

Comment 5

[Chris Petersen]

Anyone know if we have contacted Apple regarding this issue ? Anything to report? 

Comment 6

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

They have been contacted about other issues but not this one as far as I know.
I'll get to it as soon as I can.

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Error: document.mainImageiLayer has no properties
Source File: http://homepage.mac.com/i/hpti/1/wimg/Shared/SlideShow/slideshow.js
Line: 155

Error: writeCounter is not defined
Source File: http://homepage.mac.com/jtyzack/PhotoAlbum.html
Line: 203

Bad sniffing in slideshow.js, treats us identically to NN4 and document.write's
layer tags.

contacted via
http://survey.info.apple.com/info.apple.com/survey/feedback/feedback.taf?function=brokenlinksinput

Follow up in early January for retesting this site.

Comment 8

[Louis Wang]

It's January (almost over!) and the homepage.mac.com stuff still doesn't work :)

Comment 9

[Chris Nalls]

Apple contacted, bug info sent. Contact is Skip Levens ([e-mail]), our
Evangelism contact.

Comment 10

[Chris Nalls]

Skip Levens from Apple replies:

Gotcha Chris - tracking down the folks who build those pages....

-Skip

Comment 11

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

-> chrisn

Comment 12

[Peter Lubczynski]

*** Bug 123750 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Olivier Cahagne]

*** Bug 127717 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Prachi Gauriar]

This works for me now. Should this be marked as resolved (WORKSFORME)?

Comment 15

[Adam Masri]

Very cool! I guess Apple fixed it.

- Adam

Comment 16

[Chris Petersen]

Yes, it does work now since Apple modified there JS code :


if (ns4)
document.write('<td align="center" valign="top"><ilayer id="mainImageiLayer"
visibility="hidden">')

else
document.write('<td align="center" valign="middle"><div id="mainImageDiv"
style="visibility:hidden">')

Comment 17

[Chris Petersen]

Marking verified.