11322 - Animated GIF causes form fields to reset

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect, P3)

Description

[Matthew Mastracci]

Build used: Mozilla Apr 4, 1999; Win32; 10am build

It appears that frames in the animated GIF ads on the Lycos main search page
will actually reset the form field for the search.  As far as I can tell, each
time there is a frame change in the animated GIF, all the data in the field is
lost.

It seems to happen when there are non-animated GIFs as the ad banner, but I
believe this is because of the animated dog GIF to the left of the form field.

Here's an HTML snippet for a test case that exhibits this behaviour:

---
<img src="http://webfarm.sfo.mediaplex.com/banner_request/150-1209h-1041">
<FORM><INPUT TYPE=text NAME=query SIZE=30></form>
---

You can clearly see the bugs effects here (try entering text into this field).
I haven't tested this bug on other platforms.

Comment 1

[Matthew Mastracci]

Attachment: Test case for this bug.

Comment 2

[Matthew Mastracci]

doh...  my apologies for not proofing the build info.  the date of the build
should read August 4th.  The specific install used was:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/1999-08-04-09-M9/mozilla-win32.zip

Comment 3

[karnaze (gone)]

Reassigning to Kevin.

Comment 4

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

It only does this in apprunner. Inside viewer it works fine.

Comment 5

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

A build from Aug 10 failed for me, but I just did a fresh pull on WINNT on Aug
11, 99 at 11:00am and it is working correctly. Not sure what changed, but I am
marking it as fixed.

Comment 6

[phillip]

verified fixed on

     1999-08-13-08 RedHat Linux 6.0 (GNOME/enlightenment)
     1999-08-13-08 WinNT 4.0 sp5
     1999-08-13-08 MacOS 8.51