151967 - yahoo.com - mail won't let me open color and graphics mode

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 97284

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Timothy Tate]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611
BuildID:    2002061104

when using my Yahoo mail account at mail.yahoo.com and I press compose in
Internet Explorer it allows me to click on a link that sends me into the color
and graphics composer mode, but when using Mozilla I am stuck using the plain
version

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to mail.yahoo.com and log into a yahoo mail account
2.press the compose message link to open up a new message to send
3.

Actual Results:  there is no link to switch from the plain mode of composing a
message into the color and graphics mode

Expected Results:  just above the area for typing a message in yahoo mail, or
right next to the bold "compose" in the new beta yahoo mail there should be a
link that should switch from the plain version to the "color and graphics" version

Comment 1

[Alex Hosking]

I have this problem I think it because ad text and graphis uses AxtiveX. There
for they shoud use an applet or somthing.

Comment 2

[Dan Houson]

This should be moved to tech evangelism, am I corect?

Comment 3

[Dan Houson]

Cant seem to change the status myself

Comment 4

[Keyser Sose]

Moving to tech evangelism adding tracking bug.

Comment 5

[Brant Gurganus]

I can confirm this at least in the beta version of Yahoo Mail.  A quick glance
at the HTML showed only JavaScript.  I didn't see any ActiveX, but I may have
missed it.

Comment 6

[Ian Neal]

Looks like yahoo presents different pages depending what browser it detects, so
it's not that mozilla doesn't display the option but yahoo doesn't give the link
to display. Might be worth someone seeing if it's presented if mozilla's UA is
changed to IE, I suspect it would but i'm not sure it would work looking at all
the document.all that the IE page has in it's JS.

Comment 7

[Ian Neal]

*** Bug 153054 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Ian Neal]

Because duped bug was

Comment 9

[Miles Libbey]

This page 
http://www.codeproject.com/jscript/w3richtechedit.asp
shows how its implemented in IE.  It appears to be 'kind of' an activeX control.
 Changing the UA to win IE 5.x makes the link appear, but the html editor does
not work. 

Comment 10

[Susie Wyshak]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97284 ***

Comment 11

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

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