150694 - kpmg.com - page rendered mostly blank

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 83846

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[David A. Cobb]

Browsed the cited link from my bookmarks.  Originally, the page was quite rich.
 On this build (2002-06-07-04) much of it doesn't render.

Comment 1

[David A. Cobb]

And, once again, the Evil Empire Browser renders it just fine. :-(

Comment 2

[Richard Godbee]

The server returns different HTML (and references different .js files) depending
on whether it thinks it's talking to Internet Explorer or Netscape.  The
Netscape version of the page makes extensive use of layers in both the HTML and
the JavaScript, which probably explains why it's busted in Mozilla...

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Error: document.layers has no properties
Source File: http://www.us.kpmg.com/scriptlib/ns.js
Line: 183

not mozilla's fault -> TE

Comment 4

[Brant Gurganus]

This site uses layers:
<layer id="bodyLay" onMouseOver="resetSubnav()" top="110" left="0" z-index="1"
visibility="hide">.

Site also seems to use bad browser sniffing:
function checkFlash() {
	FlashOff = 1;
      if (navigator.appName == "Netscape" && navigator.plugins) {
         numPlugins = navigator.plugins.length;
         if (numPlugins > 0) 
          {
            
            for (i = 0; i < numPlugins; i++)
            {
               plugin = navigator.plugins[i];
if (plugin.description.indexOf("Flash 4") != -1)               {
                  numTypes = plugin.length;
                  for (j = 0; j < numTypes; j++) 
                  {
                     mimetype = plugin[j];
                     
                     if (mimetype)
                     {     
                        if (mimetype.enabledPlugin &&
(mimetype.suffixes.indexOf("swf") != -1))
                           FlashOff = 0;
                        // Mac wierdness
                        if (navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"]
== null)
                           FlashOff = 1;
                     }
                  }
               }
            }
         }                        
      }
	return FlashOff;
}

Also, the site uses proprietary JavaScript:
Error: document.layers has no properties
Source File: http://www.us.kpmg.com/scriptlib/ns.js
Line: 183

Contact: On main page, select contact us.

Comment 5

[Eric A. Meyer (dead account)]

I believe this is a duplicate of bug 83846.  (I'll be making further 
comments there.)

Comment 6

[David A. Cobb]

As Reporter, I concur this is a dup of
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83846>

But some of the commentary here is worth keeping!

Comment 7

[Frankie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83846 ***

Comment 8

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

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