161152 - Javascript-based metric converter produces incorrect calculations

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 166752

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Doug Collette]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721
BuildID:    2002072104

This site is a Java-based metric converter that produces grossly incorrect
answers when using Mozilla 1.1 Beta.  The Length, Weight and Pressure coversions
work properly in Netscape 4.5 and IE 5.0.  The Volume converter doesn't seem to
work with any browser.

For example, using the Length converter, 25.4 millimeters is calculated to be
55.997 inches.  Also, there are no calculations shown for Meters, Feet and
Yards.  These fields are calculated using Netscape and IE.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter 25.4 in Millimeters window of the Length Conversion Calulator
2. Press the Calculate button
3. 

Actual Results:  1. 55.997 will be displayed in the Inches window

Expected Results:  1. The correct number is 1.0000 inches

I'm using the Lopburi Flat theme and haven't verified if this problem still
occurs with the default theme.

Comment 1

[alge]

this is java_script_, not java. changing components.

Comment 2

[alanjstr]

There have been other bug reports about javascript numbers behaving incorrectly.
 Not sure if this is a dupe.

Comment 3

[Prashant Desale]

Seems to be working fine with 1.0 branch.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

javascript: alert(document.forms[0] == document.forms[1]) gives "true" on this page!

This is very very wrong.... (and leads to all the problems observed)

jkeiser?  Any ideas?

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

dupping forward to the bug with the fix...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 166752 ***