144416 - Weather Network site animation does not work.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Security: CAPS, defect)

Description

[Jason Bassford]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0+)
Gecko/20020510
BuildID:    2002051008

When clicking on the "Animation" button, it changes to "Loading", followed by a
series of ".", "..", and "...", that cycle forever.  The throbber and other
browser UI elements show that nothing is being loaded.  Under IE, when clicking
on the button, it is immediately replaced by a "stereo" type control with a
series of play buttons.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on the "Animation" button.

Actual Results:  A play control should come up from which you can play the
animation.

Expected Results:  It says "Loading..." indefinitely.

Comment 1

[Jason Bassford]

Changing Summary for easier searching.

Comment 2

[Tim]

I found a similar but different problem on the weather.com website:
http://www.weather.com/weather/map/93401?from=LAPmaps&name=index_large_animated&day=1

The animation loads and plays but clips parts of images off sometimes.  Other
times it loads the first image and then goes to blank area.  Yet other times it
works perfectly.  In IE there is no such problem.  I think this may be the same
bug, if you think I'm wrong, let me know and I'll open a new bug report. 

Comment 3

[Jason Bassford]

For me, it doesn't load at all.  It just sits there forever, saying it's
loading, until I close the window.

Since the symptom here is the same for me, I say leave it as part of this bug
until somebody can figure out what's causing the problem.  (If the fix, assuming
this bug ever gets any attention, only resolves the test site, then I suppose a
new bug can be filed.)

Comment 4

[Tim]

Just tried it using the nightly build.  Both sites come up and work perfectly. 
You might want to verify this and then close this bug.

Comment 5

[Jason Bassford]

It still doesn't work for me - neither site.  I'm now using 2002022804 / XP.

Comment 6

[Tim]

Works for me under windows 2000:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030228

Good luck on the XP fix.

Comment 7

[Jason Bassford]

URL to the radar maps has changed:

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/maps/Satrad.htm

There is no longer an "animation" button but a graphical "play" button. 
However, it still doesn't work.

Comment 8

[Jason Bassford]

Okay, when clicking on the play button the following JavaScript Console error is
generated:

Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to get property HTMLImageElement.src

Therefore, I'm taking this out of Tech Evangelism and moving it over to Browser,
 Security: CAPS.

Comment 9

[Jason Bassford]

JavaScript Console also complains about permission to set property in addition
to just getting it.

Comment 10

[Jason Bassford]

Changing reference URL...

Comment 11

[Jason Bassford]

The JavaScript error seen here is identical to the one seen in bug 207851.

If they both have the same cause, they can/should both be resolved by fixing a
lower-level bug.  (Either marked as duplicates, or have a dependency set.)

Comment 12

[Jason Bassford]

Just checked this again with a 9/13-06 build.  I'm still seeing the same
JavaScript errors as already mentioned, but the map is now actually animating
for me.

I have no idea what fixed this.

->WORKSFORME.