154374 - Geocities ad-ons make scrollbar disappear

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 154230

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[alanjstr]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020617

I know there is an evangelism bug regarding the improper coding of layers (Bug
24797).  For some reason, the code Geocities tacks on to the bottom of the page
can remove the scrollbar and keep the page from being scrolled down.  

This page has passed the w3c HTML 4.01 (without the Geocities code) and CSS 2
validation tests.  

Visit http://www.geocities.com/alanjstarr/didyouknow.html in Mozilla.  After the
content loads, the scrollbar on the right dissappears.  Save the source to your
hard drive and strip out the ad text from the bottom.  Everything will appear
fine.  This happens to other pages on the site that use the same cascading style
sheet.


Code added by Geocities:

<!-- text below generated by server. PLEASE REMOVE
--></object></layer></div></span></style></noscript></table></script></applet>
<script language="JavaScript">var PUpage="76001055"; var PUprop="geocities";
</script><script language="JavaScript"
src="http://www.geocities.com/js_source/pu4geo.js"></script><script
language="JavaScript"
src="http://www.geocities.com/js_source/ygNSLib9.js?v3"></script><script
language="JavaScript">yvSM=0;yvVP=0;var
yvnContents='http://us.toto.geo.yahoo.com/toto?s=76001055&l=NE&b=0&t=1025095649';yvnR='us';yfnEA(0);</script><script
language="JavaScript"
src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mc/mc.js"></script><script
language="JavaScript"
src="http://us.geocities.com/js_source/geov2.js"></script><script
language="javascript">geovisit();</script><noscript><img
src="http://visit.geocities.com/visit.gif?1025095649" border=0 width=1
height=1></noscript>

<img SRC="http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=76001055&t=1025095649" ALT=1 WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1>

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

Confirming this behaviour. Trunk build 2002062604 - WinXP.

Pretty annoying :-/

Comment 2

[alanjstr]

Please note that if you're looking at the page and you don't see the Geocities
ads, that is what is supposed to happen.  A DIV layer covers them.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> Layout (?)

Comment 4

[alanjstr]

Attachment: Unobfuscated javascript

I propogated all of the constant variables.  I don't know how often the server
might re-generate the code.  Also note that some of the javascripts are using
document.write's to include further javascripts.

Comment 5

[HARUNAGA Hirotoshi]

I think this is a dup of Bug 154230.

Comment 6

[alanjstr]

Its possible.  Though this is broken without a reload.  Disabling the page's
javascript (but not Geocities) doesn't fix it.  Disabling the stylesheet,
however, gets the scrollbar to appear.  All of the DIVs have a z-index set to 10
or higher so that they lie on top of the geocities ad.  154230 does have
Geocities code appeneded, but its not the DHTML ad, just an visitor tracking. 
I'm not sure why 154230 only happens on a reload, yet.

Comment 7

[alanjstr]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154230 ***