113557 - infamousstores.com - animated .GIFs not visible due to bad JS

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Thomas Buffington Jr.]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120
BuildID:    20011120009

On the website http://www.infamousstores.com/ which serves as the splash page to
Infamous stores there are a series of X's which are supposed to display in a
straight row above the statements of "one world" "one love" "Peace" however when
viewed in any Mozilla/Netscape browser these Red X's don't show up at all. All
that can be seen is the three statements mentioned "one world" "one love" "Peace"

I have contacted the webmaster about this problem and all I recieve is an
automatic reply with a password and member name to the messageboard.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type in the URL http://www.infamousstores.com/

2. Arrival to the splash page will occur and should have 3 statements mentioned
and a spinning globe below those 3 statements

3. Now view the page in any non Mozilla/Netscape browser to see what the page is
supposed to display but for some reason doesn't.

Actual Results:  The actual results didn't vary at all. At every occurence of
arriving on this splash page was still unable to see the entire splash page as
it was designed by the webmaster.

Expected Results:  Expected to see for the first time what the site looked like
but instead had to download Internet Explorer 6 just to see what was missing.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The images are in a div that's hidden.  The page runs a script onload that
unhides the div.

Too bad the script is badly written, decides that Mozilla is Netscape 4, and
tries to use Netscape-4-only javascript to unhide the div.

This is a bug in the page.

Comment 2

[gavin long]

Doh! what is it with me and mid-air collisions this morning (hi boris)

Those images are animated gifs, not Jpegs.  amending subject accordingly.

In addition, The page appears to have been written using MS Frontpage, and
validator.w3.org has a fit when I feed it this page - there are
unusual/non-standard attributes on several of the tags.  (MS Frontpage extensions?)

As boris pointed out, the browser sniffing  is very suspect, and appears to
break browsers down into three groups :
1) MS Internet Explorer 4+ (code uses document.all)
2) Netscape 4+ (code uses document.layers)
3) Everything else (code does nothing)

In short, IMO, that page is completely broken for non-IE browsers.  It might
cope with NN4.x, but I'd be surprised if anything else worked.

I'd punt this at tech evang, but boris beat me to it :)

Comment 3

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Mass reassign of all tech-evangelism us general bugs assigned to bc to 
doron except bc's P1 bugs. You may search for this mass reassign (it is 
305 bugs) by searching for the keyword 'greeneggsandham'

Comment 4

[basic]

removing from bug 119597 depends list

Comment 5

[Thomas Buffington Jr.]

www.infamousstores.com Not Available

The domain www.infamousstores.com which you are trying to access is currently
unavailable. This may occur for several reasons -- the name may have changed, or
it may have moved to a new location. Please try to access the site later, or
contact the site's administrator. 

Marking Invalid as the website is no longer up. If this changes I'll re-open it
but for now marking invalid.

Comment 6

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

there's something black again

Comment 7

[gavin long]

Yup, there's now a new site there - which is still using proprietary DOM, with
no path for the W3C DOM.  The new site, however is COMPLETELY unusable in Moz.

Comment 8

[basic]

marking wfm since the site seems to no longer exist.