125139 - protonic.com - popups for spell-checker are not working

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P3)

Description

[Brant Gurganus]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.8+)
Gecko/20020209
BuildID:    2002020908

The javascript popups do not work.  I have attached a ZIP file of the example page.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Hover mouse over misspelled word.

Actual Results:  Nothing happens

Expected Results:  pop up a spelling suggestion list

This works in IE.  This bug probably fits best under JavaScript Engine, but
whenever I try to submit a bug to that section through the Bugzilla helper, it
doesn't work.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter:
a)Have you installed your build over an older build ?
b) Have you disabled popups under Edit\Preferences\Advanced\Scripts&Windows ?
c) Can you try a new profile ? 
run "mozilla -profilemanager" and create an additional test profile..

Comment 2

[Brant Gurganus]

Yes, the build is installed over another build.
Yes, popups are enabled.
No, I haven't tried a new profile.
I will try a new profile when I have some more time.

Comment 3

[Christine Hoffman]

changing qa contact to match component assigned

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

If Your second test profile doesn't fix your problem than please uninstall
Mozilla and
reinstall Mozilla.
 

Comment 5

[Brant Gurganus]

Updated to 2002021303, problem persists.
If you misunderstood, the JavaScript does NOT pop up new browser windows.

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You haven't answer my questions:
Have you reinstalled mozilla and have you tried a new profile ?
And you haven't attached a testcase..

Comment 7

[Brant Gurganus]

I tried reinstalling, updating, and a new profile.  None worked.  I will attach
a sample after this.

Comment 8

[Brant Gurganus]

Attachment: Zipped Sample Page

This is an attached sample page.  I have not tried creating a simplified test
case.

Comment 9

[Brant Gurganus]

Attachment: simplest sample I care to make

This is the simplest sample I care to make.  There should be a popup (like a
tooltip) when the mouse cursor hovers over the word "Langer".  It works in
Internet Explorer.

Comment 10

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Both testcases are not working in Mozilla and IE5.0 !

I see many errors in the JS Console (Help/Tools/JS Console) and also IE shows 
"Error" in the status bar.

(BTW:I suggested a new profile because you wrote that the bugzilla helper 
doesn't work..)

Comment 11

[Brant Gurganus]

It works in IE6.  I don't know about IE5.  I think it also works in Netscape 4, 
but I'm not 100% sure on that.

Comment 12

[David Illsley]

A quick look at the javascript used indicates that it uses non-W3C dom methods.

Marking INVALID as the problem does not exist within mozilla

Reporter: mozilla doesn't support most of Microsoft's extensions to the W3C DOM
because standards are good. If you believe that your code is W3C compatible, or
that mozilla should support a proprietary extension (that will be a VERY hard
fight), please feel free to reopen this bug.

Thanks for helping with mozilla.

Comment 13

[Brant Gurganus]

Reopening and sending to Tech Evangelism (this is not my site).  Site is 
http://www.protonic.com/

Comment 14

[Brant Gurganus]

Confirming
2002022703/WinXP

Comment 15

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Reassigning to Evang.

Comment 16

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

what part of the site has these popups? can you provide an exact url?

Comment 17

[Brant Gurganus]

The site requires a login as a technician to view the URL.  It is the page that
checks spelling after submitting an answer or a request for more information.  I
believe it is ticket.answercheck.php (as the file name).

Comment 18

[Brant Gurganus]

updating Summary to conventional format

Comment 19

[Brant Gurganus]

Signup as technician is free if you wish to try it.  Contact: [e-mail].
After signup, answer a question and you will be at the spell checker.  Hover
over a misspelled word (usually your name if you haven't added it).

Comment 20

[Brant Gurganus]

I am making the summary clearer and adding some missing Status Whiteboard keywords.

Comment 21

[Brant Gurganus]

It appears that line feeds are properly changed to spaces; however, strings of
spaces are still not reduced to a single space.  Can't this be done with regular
expressions if C has them?

Comment 22

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 23

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Is this still an issue ?

Comment 24

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

I'm going to close since the page has been updated. If someone does verify the bug exists please reopen.