163138 - unpredictable text field/submit form behavior

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Camino Graveyard :: HTML Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Chris Green]

I tried to submit this string in the yahoo search field: "law firm austin new
york", but the submit didn't seem to work. It did work in IE. I thought maybe it
was because of the length of the string, because a search for a shorter string
(e.g., "law firm austin") did work in Chimera. However, submitting a string of
21 contiguous numbers, "123456789012345678901", doesn't work (predictably, and
does in IE), but you have to shorten that string to "123456789" to get it to work.

Thanks for letting me bugbitch, and gosh this browser is perty.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Chris, what build ID are you reporting this bug against?

Comment 2

[Ben Lukens]

If your search query doesn't match anything on yahoo, the site returns a 302
redirect to do a google search. Chimera/2002081605 and Mozilla/2002073008 ignore
this.

For example, search for "x9q45m" on yahoo:
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=x9q45m
In Chimera and Mozilla, nothing happens. IE and OmniWeb, however, reroute to a
google search:
http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=x9q45m

Comment 3

[Chris Green]

Greg, this was with v0.4.0 of Chimera.
Ben, the behavior I was getting the other day was more like lack of behavior.
The form did not seem to get submitted _at all_. Today, I find the submit
(search) button to be working as expected, regardless of string entered.
Sooooooo ...

Today I'm changing the status of this bug to 'invalid', because it seems to be
working the way one would expect. It's hard to say what was going on.

Thanks for the input.

CG