161139 - Yahoo Java Chat applet only displays as a small box

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 160800

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Mike Chapman]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721
BuildID:    2002072104

Yahoo Java Chat applet (in Yahoo!Groups) only displays as a small box making it
useless -- should be almost full width of screen and 1/3 length

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go To Groups.yahoo.com, and select any group, join the group, click on   
"Chat" 
2. Chat applet loads, but is a small screen.

applet works fine in Chat.yahoo.com

Actual Results:  Chat applet loads, but is a small screen.

Expected Results:  should like like it does in Chat.yahoo.com  Also Netscape 4.x
loads it (YahooGroups!Chat) just fine!!

Comment 1

[alge]

do you have to have a yahoo account to use this chat thingie?
anyway, can you provide a direct url that shows the problem and/or a testcase?
(save page and attach it to the bug if that works)

Comment 2

[John Morrison]

I see this for the <applet> tag on a yahoo chat group.

<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};">

and noting the 4.x'ish |width="&{innerWidth-160};"|. So, the question is 
whether we support that syntax. If not, then -> Evang.

Comment 3

[rubydoo123]

hmm, I an honestly say, I have never seen an applet width and height defined
like that before - is that really supposed to work?

Arun/Shrir -- have you ever seen this type of coding before?

Comment 4

[shrirang khanzode]

*no*

Comment 5

[John Morrison]

It's an obscure syntax related to 'javascript style sheets', I seem to recall. I 
can't find a precise reference for it. The closest match is this: 
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/communicator/dynhtml/layers32.htm#1038571
I don't think this has been "grandfathered" in general (nor would I expect it to
be).

Comment 6

[rubydoo123]

Well it certainly is not inline with HTML coding standards. I would suspect that
this would render appropriately if it were coded in respect to the W3C coding
practices.

Comment 7

[John Morrison]

-> evang

No, I don't think we should fix this (be backward compatible on this obscure 
feature). But if yahoo is using this in high profile quantities, then we do 
need to do something about it.

Comment 8

[John Morrison]

-> evang

Comment 9

[Ian Neal]

*** Bug 161210 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Ian Neal]

*** Bug 142076 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Ian Neal]

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

Comment 12

[Ian Neal]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 160800 ***

Comment 13

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg