143195 - microsoft.com - drop down menus do not drop down

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

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From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0+)
Gecko/20020505
BuildID:    20020050508

This may be a duplicate of http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141387,
although it sounds slightly different.
On the www.microsoft.com page the drop down menus (near the top right) they have
called "all products", "support", "search" etc don't drop down under mozilla or
netscape 4.76. It works under IE (surprised! Not!).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to www.microsoft.com
2. move the mouse over the "support" menu at the top right
3.

Actual Results:  no result

Expected Results:  a menu should drop down giving other options

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky, bz on IRC]]

Yeah, they do it that way on purpose...

To evang, but this may be a dup of something else bug 114158 depends on.

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc:]]

taking

Comment 3

[Phil Schwartau]

Note these included files seem to create the menus:

<script src="/library/include/ctredir.js"></script>
<script src="/library/toolbar/toolbar.js"></script>
<script src="/library/toolbar/en-us/globalMNP.js"></script>
<script src="/library/toolbar/en-us/localMNP.js"></script>
<script>drawToolbar();</script>
<script src="/library/homepage/include/hpmain.js"></script>

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc:]]

->evang500

Comment 5

[[e-mail]]

maybe related to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152505

Comment 6

[Phil Schwartau]

Bug 155227 "JavaScript Pulldown Menu Doesnt Work", is a duplicate.
You may want to dupe this one against the newer bug, because it has
more information about the code at the site -

Comment 7

[Damian Yerrick]

Severity smells "minor" to me, as there's an easy workaround
(click the menu title and go to the Support page).

(I'm rummaging through the Microsoft.com tracker bug 114158 due to
recent changes in the behavior of 141279 and bug 145177.  To filter
messages related to this activity, search for "tepplesmsn200209".)

Comment 8

[[e-mail]]

If you use that workaround you may miss certain links. Its not always guaranteed
that just clicking what mozilla shows will present you with a page that has all
the possible menu items on it.

Also, if Mozilla does not work on the MS site - that looks bad for Mozilla.

Comment 9

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

*** Bug 155227 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Bob Clary [:bc:]]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 11

[Andreas Kunz]

*** Bug 202688 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Bob Clary [:bc:]]

*** Bug 215181 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

Can't find the said drop down menus at http://www.microsoft.com/ now.
Except for fancy background gradation in the left column and highlighted focus
in 'Microsoft.com Home' and 'Site Map' in the top right, Firefox (Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041214 Firefox/1.0+) can
render http://www.microsoft.com/ just like IE does.

Comment 14

[Ulrich Voigt]

I think this bug should be closed WFM because the described problem does no longer exist.

Comment 15

[u88484]

WFM also with latest trunk and branch