121731 - yahoo.com - oracle ad doesn't properly detect mozilla, displays poorly -

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Luke Koleszar]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020124
BuildID:    2002012403

my.yahoo.com has a javascript Oracle ad that is supposed to pop up when you
mouse over the image.  However it doesn't work properly with Mozilla and you
often get a large popped up image that cannot be closed.  I'm guessing the
problem is in the browser detection code for the ad.
See: http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/1-/flash/oracle/011502/oracle9.js



Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to my.yahoo.com (You don't need to have an account)
2.
3.

Actual Results:  Sometimes the Oracle ad is displayed improperly

Expected Results:  Large pop up image is only displayed on ad mouse over as in IE.

Comment 1

[Luke Koleszar]

Attachment: Screenshot of ad displaying improperly

Comment 2

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

seeing as well. For netscape 6, they just put a simple button image

Comment 3

[Christopher Whitt]

*** Bug 125088 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 126745 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Susie Wyshak]

This is being diagnosed by mgalli, who is working with Yahoo.

Comment 6

[Susie Wyshak]

By the way -- it is *correct* behavior that they just have the small image for
Netscape. They eliminated the rollover layer which was messing up the layout. 

They are changing sniffing to sniff for Gecko so the ad will always appear
correctly.

Comment 7

[Amarendra Hanumanula]

*** Bug 139830 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Brant Gurganus]

Verified
2002042803/WinXP

Comment 9

[Luke Koleszar]

This is still happening for me with 2002042908.trunk WinME.
About 25% of pageloads have the same issue as originally described.

Comment 10

[Susie Wyshak]

Yahoo is aware of this..they still need to distribute the new code so this fully
stops happening. I'll remind them. Thanks. 

Comment 11

[Susie Wyshak]

I see the problem is worse today. I let them know.

Comment 12

[Susie Wyshak]

Yahoo fixed. Verified, 10 out of 10 shift-reloads served the correct ad. 
Marking fixed.