131426 - yahoo.com - lack pof windows media scriptability causes us to be blocked

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 121832

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020310
BuildID:    2002031005

the Javascript function that is supposed to submit this form does not work. no
errors are generated, but neither does the form actually get submitted.

unfortunately, i don't know enough Javascript to be able to determine whether
this is a Mozilla problem or an evangelism issue.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. visit http://launch.yahoo.com/launchcast/setup.asp
2. create an account if necessary
3. fill out the form
4. click submit

Actual Results:  nothing. the form did not submit.

Expected Results:  the form should have submitted.

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

confirming using build 2002031608 on Win2k.
Related (dupe ?): bug 131214.

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Browser, not engine ---> Form Submission for further triage. 
I can't see where they are blocking Mozilla, but perhaps that's 
the problem. Note these Evangelism bugs at http://launch.yahoo.com :

bug 121832 
"yahoo.com - cannot use radio service "

123112
"yahoo.com - launch.yahoo.com Blocking from site"

Comment 3

[Olivier Cahagne]

Making it depend on bug 131399.

Comment 4

[Olivier Cahagne]

Attachment: Testcase (click on link)

Comment 5

[Olivier Cahagne]

Added basic testcase, this is really a serious regression.
Severity -> Major.

Comment 6

[Olivier Cahagne]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 131399 ***

Comment 7

[Phil Schwartau]

Olivier, is this really a duplicate? In this bug, are we getting the
alertbox saying, 

 "An unknown error occurred while attempting to load the requested page" 

?                                                                     
[e-mail]: is that what you get when you hit submit?

Comment 8

[Olivier Cahagne]

This is what I get:
"An unknown error occurred while attempting to load the requested page" when
submitting form. See also the reduced testcase I made.

Comment 9

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

on the URL i posted, i get no dialog boxes. i get no response from Mozilla.

Comment 10

[Vladimir Ermakov]

I get this when I hit submit:

Error: formElements.elements has no properties
Source File: http://launch.yahoo.com/launchcast/setup.asp
Line: 374

This is not a dupe, but an evangelism bug.

Comment 11

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

i still have the original problem under 1.0RC1 (Build ID: 2002041712). nothing
happens when i hit Create My Station at the bottom of the page at the referenced
URL.

i have never gotten an error. i just get no response. no errors reported in the
Javascript Console.

Comment 12

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

what is the test case supposed to do when clicked? does it generate an error for
anybody? as i've mentioned, i never get any error dialogs, nor any Javascript
Console messages on this bug.

is this an evangelism issue?

Comment 13

[Phil Schwartau]

Thomas, what happens if you create a new Mozilla profile?

[path to Mozilla] ./mozilla -profilemanager

Does the problem still occur with the new profile?

Comment 14

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

well, ironically, Launch seems to be down for maintenance...

maybe they're incorporating evangelism fixes!

:)

Comment 15

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

the problem still occurs with the new profile, and whatever maintenance happened
at Launch didn't fix anything.

Comment 16

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

-> default owner

Comment 17

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

->evang500

Comment 18

[Tim Wunder]

Their response to my e-mailed request for help was:
<quote>
LAUNCHcast requires the following in order to properly stream media content:

PC
* Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000 Professional, XP Home, or Professional
* Pentium II, 233MHz or faster
* at least 64MB RAM
* Internet Explorer or Netscape browser, 4.0 or higher
* Windows Media Player 6.4 or higher
* Macromedia Flash 4.0 or higher
</quote>

Apparently, they don't give a rat's ass about Mozilla. I advised them I met
their criteria (Mozilla being >= Netscape 4.0), but I doubt they'll care.

Comment 19

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

has anyone tried this using NS 7? i've tried it under Moz 1.0, Moz 1.1, and
Chimera 0.6 to no avail.

Comment 20

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

Probably blocked because of windows media player scriptability

Comment 21

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

i'm not so sure. the JavaScript related to form submission doesn't seem to be
Windows Media scripting. it seems to be plain ol' JavaScript. now, i don't know
enough about DOM to figure out whether it's broken DOM access that is preventing
the form submission, or what, but this step seems to occur before any other
scriptability. unless i'm missing something.

Comment 22

[Susie Wyshak]

Doron was right. No need to comment further on this bug until Windows Media
Player can be scripted. 

Comment 23

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

one last question: does this currently affect all platforms, or Mac only?

Comment 24

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

Attachment: an official reply from Yahoo!

i figured i'd just post the official word from Yahoo! about this site. i still
feel that there might be more to it than merely scriptability of Windows Media
Player.

Comment 25

[Olivier Cahagne]

*** Bug 188691 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 26

[Arman Soetanto]

Hello!
What is "evangelism bug"???

(related article: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121832)

Comment 27

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

dupe of 121832

arman, tech evangelism http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121832 ***

Comment 28

[Olivier Cahagne]

isn't it the opposite ? Reopen bug 131426 and mark bug 121832 dupe of this one.

Comment 29

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

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