111108 - BP.com - dynamic menus use layers

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

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URL: http://www.bp.com
'Our Company', 'Our Businesses', 'In Your Area' and 'Meeting Your Needs'
sections all are broken in build 2001-11-20-03, Windows 2000 due to:

Error: document.layers has no properties
Source File: http://www.bp.com/js/home/library.js
Line: 6

Error: document.layers has no properties
Source File: http://www.bp.com/js/home/library.js
Line: 7

Code snippet:

function
checkBrowser(){this.ver=navigator.appVersion;this.dom=document.getElementById?1:0;this.ie6=(this.ver.indexOf("MSIE
6")!=-1 && this.dom)?1:0;this.ie5=(this.ver.indexOf("MSIE 5")>-1 &&
this.dom)?1:0;this.ie4=(document.all && !this.dom)?1:0;this.ns5=(this.dom &&
parseInt(this.ver) >= 5) ?1:0;this.ns4=(document.layers &&
!this.dom)?1:0;this.bw=(this.ie6 || this.ie5 || this.ie4 || this.ns4 ||
this.ns5);this.ie4up=(this.ie6 || this.ie5 || this.ie4);this.ns4up=(this.ns4 ||
this.ns5);return this;};

Comment 1

[Markus Långström]

*** Bug 128240 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Wenqing Jiang]

It is still broken.  I'm using 20021027.

Comment 3

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Mass reassigning English-Other bugs to general default assignees.

Comment 4

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

There are currently no dynamic menus on bp.com and the site works in Firefox 0.8
the same way as in IE 6.

Resolving as fixed.

Comment 5

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified with build 2004-05-12-08 on XP using bp.com