133115 - ottawa.on.ca - text becomes invisible mouse hovers over text (mouseover)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Theblueman]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020323
BuildID:    20020323

When visiting the link
http://www.city.ottawa.on.ca/online_services/index_en.shtml and hovering over
the links on the top left hand side the text becomes invisible.  The link still
works but it becomes invisible.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to link http://www.city.ottawa.on.ca/online_services/index_en.shtml
2.Hover over the links on the top left side and notice the text disappears
during the mouseover.


Actual Results:  The text seems to disappear when hovering over the links on the
top left side.

Expected Results:  When hovering over the links on the top left hand side the
background of the text should become blue and the text white.  

It seems as though the background is not becoming dark blue like it should and
the text becomes white.   The mouseover works properly in IE.

Comment 1

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

->layout

Comment 2

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

.

Comment 3

[Andrew Schultz]

this appears to be a DOM/evangelism issue.

to change the background, the page uses the Javascript function mOvr in
http://www.city.ottawa.on.ca/scripts/menu_rolls.js

mOvr attempts to check "src.contains(event.fromElement)", (src=the mouseover td
element) which fails because "event is not defined", which shows up on the
JavaScript Console.

AFAIK the "event" object is IE's own and not part of standard DOM.

I'm sending this to DOM so they can confirm this as evangelism.

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Element.contains is also an IEism

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

==> Evang

Comment 6

[Andrew Schultz]

reassign

Comment 7

[Frankie]

Contact addresses are [e-mail] and https://ottawa.ca/contactus_en.shtml

Error: event is not defined
Source File: http://www.city.ottawa.on.ca/scripts/menu_rolls.js
Line: 3

Comment 8

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Mass reassigning English-Other bugs to general default assignees.

Comment 9

[Matthew Darwin]

From: "Woods, Jeff" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ottawa.ca Improvements
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:51:55 -0400

Best regards,
 
Recently, you had advised me that the drop down menus on the City of
Ottawa's web site (ottawa.ca) were not functioning properly. I am pleased to
announce that a comprehensive fix has been put in place that should rectify
any problems you have been experiencing. The new menu systems should,
 
a) Work on PC's with Internet Explorer 5.0 (and up), any mozilla browser
(such as Firefox) including Netscape 4.8 (and Up), and Opera
b) Work on Macintosh, with Internet Explorer 5.2 (and up), anany mozilla
browser (such as Firefox) including Netscape 4.8 (and Up),  Safari and
Camino
c) The new menu systems will also work if you have java capabilities turned
off on your browser. It is now possible to click straight through to menu
pages, or to use the links displayed at the bottom of the page.
d) The new menu system is also compliant with our accessibility policies
(W3C, Priority One Checkpoints http:/w3c.org)
 
Thank you, once again for your comments. If you experience further
difficulty, please do not hesitate to contact me directly.
 
Sincerely,
 
Jeff Woods
New Media Services Coordinator
City of Ottawa
Phone: [phone] ext.13280
Fax: [phone]

Comment 10

[zmanji]

This bug is fixed now

Comment 11

[Theblueman]

The bug on the URL is resolved because of the redesign.  The same issue appears
on other pages.  I will communicate directly with the webmaster since they seem
receptive to making the page work with Mozilla and firefox.

Closing bug.