160800 - Yahoo Groups chat applets are so small they are unusable

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Jonas Jørgensen]

* Go to <http://groups.yahoo.com/>.
* Select any group that you are a member of.
* Click the 'Chat' link in the left pane.

The chat applet that appears is so small that it is unusable. This is due to the
following bad code:

<applet mayscript codebase="http://cs8.chat.sc5.yahoo.com/c174/" code=y.ch.0
archive="chat.jar" name=chat width="&{innerWidth-160};"
height="&{innerHeight-200};">

Those are clearly invalid values for width and height. Apparently they intented
to retrieve the values of innerWidth and innerHeight from the DOM.

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

cc: susie who I believe has yahoo contacts

Comment 2

[Susie Wyshak]

Verified. I'll contact them.

Comment 3

[Susie Wyshak]

Attachment: Yahoo Groups screenshot with chat

Comment 4

[Susie Wyshak]

Contacted.

Comment 5

[Susie Wyshak]

Yahoo verified the problem and will work on it.

Comment 6

[James.Melvin]

Using Netscape 6.2.3 on Solaris I see the chat applet com up and
quickly go away as the page is switched back to the main chat
page.  The java plugin (1.4.1) console says...

Current thread:Thread[thread
applet-y.ch.0,4,http://cs8.chat.sc5.yahoo.com/c174/-threadGroup]
OJIPlugin: No AThread

OJIPlugin acq Spontaneous pipe=10
Trying to enter spont monitor: 0
 OJIPlugin release for:Thread[thread
applet-y.ch.0,4,http://cs8.chat.sc5.yahoo.com/c174/-threadGroup]
OJIPlugin releasePipe - exiting spont monitor


Anyone recognize this text/code?

Comment 7

[Ian Neal]

*** Bug 161139 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Ian Neal]

There was some interesting discussion with relation to this bug in bug 142076
and bug 161139

Comment 9

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

*** Bug 164419 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Ian Neal]

*** Bug 165037 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Marcus Fellinger]

Just went to http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/christliche-singles/chat and
noticed that the chat window now got bigger. The applet-Tag now reads

<applet mayscript codebase="http://cs8.chat.sc5.yahoo.com/c174/"
archive="chat.jar" code=y.ch.0 name=chat width="600" height="400">

This isn't as wide as I would like it at 1152x864, but it is definitely better
than before.

Now if someone could come up with a standards-conforming way to make the applet
fill the browser-window, that would be real cool. :-)

Aside from that, I would say: FIXED

Comment 12

[Susie Wyshak]

verified!