133922 - rsf.org dhtml news tab not working

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: French, defect, P3)

Description

[Mat]

The dhtml tab on the left of the page at http://www.rsf.org/rsf/uk/ is not
showing at all in mozilla.

Reproducible: Always.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.rsf.org/rsf/uk/
2. Look on the left :)

Actual result: 
Nothing appears.

Expected result: 
A dhtml "layer" with some news should appear and scroll from bottom to top.

Additional Information :
They are using bad javascript code :
if (document.layers) 
  do something
else
  do something else.

in the 'else' part, they assume you are using IE's quick way of accessing an
element. they should use something based on the W3C dom instead.

Comment 1

[Tristan Nitot]

Mat,

I get what you mean, but I wish you used more details while describing the issue.
"in the 'else' part, they assume you are using IE's quick way of accessing an
element. they should use something based on the W3C dom instead."

1 - what is the exact file name where the problem happens ?
2 - what exact keyword/property should they use instead of which ?

Thanks.
Confirming with 0.9.9 on Windows 2000.

Setting P3.
Contact info: http://www.rsf.org/rsf/uk/html/contact/contact.html
[e-mail] and [e-mail].

Comment 2

[Mat]

I was quite in a hurry when I wrote this sorry :(
This happens in http://www.rsf.org/rsf/uk/frame/frGauche.html.
I'm working on the correction, this shouldn't be too hard...

Comment 3

[Ian Neal]

Seems to do something different now, with parts of the page overlapping other
parts of the page. Using BuildID 2002080508 on Win2KSP2

Comment 4

[Mathieu Pillard [:mat]]

yup.
the frontpage contains items overlapping each other but its meant to do that.
http://www.rsf.org/content.php3 has a minor problem with text overflow on the
top (new ticker) but it works.
marking as wfm.

Comment 5

[Brant Gurganus]

v

Comment 6

[Pascal Chevrel (relman team) -> :pascalc]

New Component, multilingual site, main Office in France -> French