152564 - netcom.com/~rickydik/ - 'amazing' animated clock

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P5)

Description

[Matthew Feinstein]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
BuildID:    2002053012

Animated clock doodad that works on IE and on Netscape but not on Mozilla

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to cited URL
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Actual Results:  Doodad doesn't do squat.

Expected Results:  Doodad should do.

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

A layer problem ?

Just look at this, found in source code.


"if (ns){
for (i=0; i < D.length; i++)
document.write('<layer name="nsDate'+i+'" top=0 left=0 height='+a+'
width='+a+'><center>'+props2+D[i]+'</font></center></layer>');
for (i=0; i < n; i++)
document.write('<layer name="nsFace'+i+'" top=0 left=0 height='+a+'
width='+a+'><center>'+props+Face[i]+'</font></center></layer>');
for (i=0; i < S.length; i++)
document.write('<layer name=nsSeconds'+i+' top=0 left=0 width=15 height=15><font
face=Arial size=3 color='+sCol+'><center><b>'+S[i]+'</b></center></font></layer>');
for (i=0; i < M.length; i++)
document.write('<layer name=nsMinutes'+i+' top=0 left=0 width=15 height=15><font
face=Arial size=3 color='+mCol+'><center><b>'+M[i]+'</b></center></font></layer>');
for (i=0; i < H.length; i++)
document.write('<layer name=nsHours'+i+' top=0 left=0 width=15 height=15><font
face=Arial size=3 color='+hCol+'><center><b>'+H[i]+'</b></center></font></layer>');"

Moving this to tech evangelism.

Comment 2

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

they have only deprecated code for IE4 and Netscape4

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Matthew, if you want to contact them please do but we will probably not get to
them any time soon. send them devedge.netscape.com

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 5

[nemo]

http://m8y.org/tmp/clock2.htm

FWIW.

Minimal changes to make it work in modern browsers.
Code is pretty ugly still.

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Yeah, even the site in comment 5 doesn't work right in Firefox 3.0.x or Camino 2. The clock is offset so that its center is located exactly at the upper-left corner of the content area and is thus pretty much useless.

Comment 7

[nemo]

Regarding comment #6 above.

The clock is "centred" only until you move the mouse.

That was the behaviour of the old clock too.

And it did that regardless of browser.  The positioning relative to the mouse is the same too.

Still has ugly code though :-p

Comment 8

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.