122010 - usps.com - no dhtml menus

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

the main usps site has dhtml menus for ie/ns4:

layer = (document.all && No3) ? "document.all['L'+menu].style" :
(document.layers && No3) ? "document.layers['L'+menu]" : 0;

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

note that this is a top100 site :)

Fix is at http://www.nexgenmedia.net/evang/usps/usps.com.html - they also need
to be told that their dhtml functions (show() and hide()) are included twice.

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

contact info
http://new.usps.com/cgi-bin/uspsbv/scripts/content.jsp?B=contactform&C=Web%20Site%20Technical%20Questions&BB=null&TT=1&CC=null&DD=null&Comments=null

Comment 3

[Susie Wyshak]

Now the home page popout menu works but the Store is totally
unusable/unbrowsable as each section depends on the missing popouts to shop.
http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/home.jsp

To boot, the FAQ page uses a stylesheet where you only see bullets and no text.
So in mozilla the FAQ page is essentially unusable.

Comment 4

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/home.jsp seems to use
serverside checking of browser and giving us netscape 4 code.

At a quick glance, should not be hard to make this work.

Comment 5

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

file:///D:/evang/usps/shop.html has my version, it still has some issues (the
links below the "browse store" image are too far apart)

Comment 6

[Susie Wyshak]

Re comment #3 I just filed bug 129350

Comment 7

[Susie Wyshak]

It appears they are sniffing for specific Netscape browser versions, and not
Gecko. In other browsers all lefthand menus / submenus are fully expanded, which
formerly only happened on Linux I believe.
http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/home.jsp

The menus collapse and expand correctly in Gecko/20020509 if the UA string is:

-Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
-Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726
Netscape6/6.1

Comment 8

[Susie Wyshak]

Sorry..by "other browsers" I meant browsers with UA strings they are not
detecting result in the fully expanded menus.

Comment 9

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

does it now. The old code is still there, but gets overridden by a working one...

Comment 10

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg