158983 - [LAYER]Bad browser-sniffing causes annoying popups on mouseover

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Christopher H. Peck]

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

Just move your mouse over one of the 4 quick link boxes and you'll get this
annoying error. On N4.7 and IE, there is an information box that pops up and
follows the mouse. I can't say for certain, but I 'believe' this occurs also on
Linux and Mac OS X (I'm not at one of those machines right now).

At the least, if there is an error, don't make a popup window appear where you
have to click 'Okay' everytime.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Move mouse over one of the 4 quicklink boxes.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  A javascript popup window appears everytime, and I have to
click 'Okay' to continue

Expected Results:  Have an information window popup and follow the cursor

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

http://www.sandiegomesacollege.net/library/index.html
    ...
    <script src="js/pop.js">
    ...
    ONMOUSEOVER="popup('<font face=arial size=2 color=#037103><b>Search the
    library catalog (<i>SandyPac</i>) to find books and audiovisual
    materials.</b></font>','#FEFFD3')"

http://www.sandiegomesacollege.net/library/js/pop.js
    ...
                   if(navigator.appName=="Netscape")
                   {
                     (document.layers)?isNS=true:old=true;
                   }
    ...
                   function popup(_m,_b)
                   {
    ...
                     if(old)
                     {
                       alert(_m);
                           return;
                     }

No Mozilla error. The script used on the page is propably supposed to do some
dhtml-ish popup-bubbles on the page, but falls back to using alerts for browsers
with navigator.appName=="Netscape", that don't support document.layers browser
-- such as NS<4(or is it <3?) or Mozilla.

->evang

Comment 2

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

reassign for real

Comment 3

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

fixed!

Comment 4

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

v

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg