182232 - cowowi.com - Will not expand table of menus that use javascript for our site. Also other anamolies.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Ray Lidzy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461; YComp 5.0.0.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4

Login to the url and use demoguest for username.  Password may be anything.  
Company name should be demoeng.  Notice the menu table at the top will not 
open.  We use javascript to expand this <table> to display submenu options.

Also we have two reports 
http://controls.cowowi.com/NewCostMgmt/Reports/BudgetDaily.asp that use MS-Web 
spreadsheet for Excel 2002.  This does not display the spreadsheet object.  We 
have javascript to use a combo_onchange to set the data in two fields and this 
doesn't work.  We have icons beside these fields that open a popup calendar.  
The popup opens but the display is missing the array of dates to select and 
send the date back to the txtbox represented.

Phoenix is fast, but doesn't work for javascript nor for objects imbedded in 
html.  

You have a lot of work to do!!!!!!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Login to http://controls.cowowi.com/NewCostMgmt/Index.asp
2.  Use demoguest as username, any password will do, demoeng as company
3.  Notice how menu will not expand?  
4.  Navigate to http://controls.cowowi.com/NewCostMgmt/Reports/BudgetDaily.asp
5.  Notice how the icons and fields don't match up.  Open our calendar 
picker.  Notice that this doesn't display either?
6.  Now use MS-Internet Explorer to to the same process.
7.  Don't you wish that your browser worked as well?
8.  Don't you wish that your browser worked half as well?
9.  You have the speed, but not the manuverability.  Tsk, Tsk.

Actual Results:  
Navigation menu will not expand to show sub menus.
Object imbedded in pages do not show.  (MS-Web Componenents for Spreadsheet)
Calendar picker won't show dates, nor will it send the data back to the field.

Expected Results:  
Reviewed the capabilities of Internet Explorer.  Allow javascript to run 
correctly.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

1)  The menus use the IE-proprietary object document.all.  We do not implement
    it, quite purposefully.  From a brief look at the code, just replacing the
    syntax document.all.id and document.all[id] with document.getElementById(id)
    would help a lot (getElementById is supported by IE5 and later, Opera, all
    Gecko-based browsers, Konqueror, and in general any browser written after
    about 1998.

2)  The misalignment seems to also be due to the use of document.all

3)  The calendar is accessing a <form name="frmCalendarSample"> as
    "window.frmCalendarSample" (it's just using "frmCalendarSample", which is
    equivalent).  Using document.frmCalendarSample would work in both IE and
    Mozilla; again we quite purposefully do not support window.formName syntax.

Over to evangelism.

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 3

[RNicoletto]

http://controls.cowowi.com/ do not exist anymore.

Is this bug still valid?