1691 - Not reading ALT content in Applet tag when Java is off

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P2)

Description

[Claudius Gayle]

11-28 XPViewer on WinNT/95:

Goto java.sun.com and scroll all the way down. You will see a big ugly gray box
that reads 'APPLET'.

What you should see is a list of site navigation links.

Currently the DevPreview is not java enabled. That's all well and good but the
way it's currently done is not the same as 'turning java off'. Most pages with
java sniff your browser first and if you aren't java enabled serve up alternate
content. With XPViewer you never see the alternate content because it still tries
to act like it's java enabled.

Comment 1

[leger]

Java applets not working is documented in Release Notes.

Comment 2

[sujay]

Yeah we know Java applets are not working, but the browser should read
the ALT content within the APPLET TAG, we're not even doing that...

You'll have to jump to the URL above to see what we mean....compare
to 4.5X.

Comment 3

[Alex Musil]

Andrei is handling tag specific issues.

Comment 4

[sujay]

actually I wasn't clear. I didn't mean ALT as an attribute.
I simply meant embedded HTML within the APPLET tag which is supposed
to show up when a browser doesn't support Java like in the case
of Raptor right now.

Comment 5

[Claudius Gayle]

installing myself as QA Contact for sevaral bugs at once

Comment 6

[leger]

Setting all current Open/Normal to M4.

Comment 7

[av (gone)]

It is showing alt HTML content on my April 5th build. Marking fixed

Comment 8

[Claudius Gayle]

Okay, Seamonkey now handles this brightly, brightly, and with beauty. Marking VERIFIED for WinNT with 1999040711 build