163399 - stockpoint.com - JavaScript buttons not displayed properly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Tom Gonzalez]

The java script buttons for this page are not displayed properly.  All of the
overlay graphics are below the menu, not where they should be.  As far as I
know, all operating systems of Mozilla 1.0 are affected.

Comment 1

[Tom Gonzalez]

If I remember correctly, Netscape 4.7x displayed this page correctly, and so
does IE.

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Rhino is a standalone language engine. Reassigning to Browser-General
until we can get further information.

Tom, can you give us the exact build date of the Mozilla you're using?
I'm seeing no difference in how this site looks in IE6 and my Mozilla
trunk build 2002080608 on WinNT.

If you are not using a current build, please download the latest one
from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org. If the problem is still there, please give
a bit more detail: e.g. what is a typical menu item that's malfunctioning?
Where is it on the page? What is the text of the overlay? etc.

Comment 3

[Tom Gonzalez]

The exact build I am using, according to the "Help/About Mozilla" menu:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530

I will look for the latest build, and see if the problem is still present.

Comment 4

[Tom Gonzalez]

Ok, I tried several different nightly builds, none of them worked properly. 
This is the one I am using at the moment:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020810

I uninstalled all my Java JREs, and install Java JRE 1.4.0_01 and retested.  The
java part works fine, the Java Script at the top of the screen is still not
working properly.  I can get a screen shot of my browser on that page, if it
would help.

Comment 5

[Phil Schwartau]

Yes, thanks - screenshots would help. It would be great to see
the difference between IE and Mozilla on this -

Comment 6

[Tom Gonzalez]

Attachment: screen capture of mozilla javascript menu problem

Comment 7

[Tom Gonzalez]

Attachment: screen capture of Netscape 4.79 javascript menu working properly

Comment 8

[Tom Gonzalez]

I downloaded Mozilla 1.1b for Solaris/SPARC, and tested it at this page.  It has
the same javascript menu problem.
Also, I am using Mozilla 1.0 for Mac OS X, and this javascript menu problem
looks the same on it.
Hopefully this can help.

I have attached 2 screen captures so you can see the problem.

Comment 9

[Phil Schwartau]

Attachment: Reduced testcase

Comment 10

[Phil Schwartau]

Comment on attachment 96226 [details]
Reduced testcase

The testcase is not relevant; please ignore

Comment 11

[Phil Schwartau]

OK, now I see what you mean. The problem is at the top of the page,
above the Java applet. The reason is that the site is using the
<layer> tag, which was supported in NN4.x but has been deprecated:

From the site:

                     var NN4 = false;
                     var IE4 = false;
                     if (document.layers)
                       NN4 = true;
                     if (document.all)
                       IE4 = true;


Then all of their JavaScript functions have this structure:


                     function f()
                     {
                       if (IE4) 
                         document.all.something;
                       else
                         document.layers.something;
                     }


This will only work in IE and in NN4.x. Reassigning to Evangelism
so the site can be contacted about this. The W3C-standard indicates
the use of <div> tags to replace <layer> tags.

Comment 12

[Frankie]

Contact address is [e-mail]

Comment 13

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 14

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

no longer available->WFM

Comment 15

[Tom Gonzalez]

not sure what RESOLVED WORKSFORME means, I'm now using Mozilla 1.7.1 and Java
1.4.2_05 and I still see the problem.  I added a new attachment using Mozilla 1.7.1.

Comment 16

[Tom Gonzalez]

Attachment: javascript layout problem with Mozilla 1.7.1