184871 - Links to URLS on NetObjects Fusion objects encoded with actions don't work with mouse click.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[happymrpinkhead]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

While working on a page layout in NetObjects Fusion MX, I noticed some odd
behavior with objects (graphics) that have NOF actions attached to them.  Aside
from the fact that the actions apparently aren't supported like they were in
previous versions of Netscape (Having no knowledge about such things, I'm
curious as to why this is. Is this something that's difficult to do?), objects
like buttons that have links associated with them fail to point the browser to
the associated URL when clicked.  Oddly, the cursor changes to a hand to
indicate that the object is clickable, but nothing happens when the click is
initiated.  I can understand the action not happening because of the lack of
support, but can't see why the link would fail.  Unactioned objects that are
simple links work fine.  Even stranger, Mozilla WILL open the link in a new
window if one right-clicks on the object and chooses that option. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Design a page with NOF and use actions to assign functions to objects to do
things like change the graphic with mousedown.  Assign links to other pages to
said objects.
2. Click on any of the objects.

Actual Results:  
No change, except for mouse pointer change.  Mozilla ACTS like it would go to
the page the link points to, but nothing happens.  Right-click and _tell_
Mozilla to go there, works, however.

Expected Results:  
Ideally, Mozilla should support the actions like older versions of Netscape and
modern version of IE do.  But I'd be satisfied simply if the click worked and
the browser went to the page the object points to.

A lot of people design pages with NOF- it would be really nice if actions could
be supported correctly.  But I'd settle for just the basics of the browser going
where it's supposed to when one clicks on the object.

Good luck.  And, thanks!

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Please attach the source of an example page that demonstrates the problem using
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?bugid=184871&action=enter ?  That
would help a lot...

Comment 2

[happymrpinkhead]

Attachment: Two pages and supporting files to allow you to duplicate the behavior

Put all these in one directory.  These are basically raw NOF output HTML files
(Aren't they UGLY?!?) that I edited to point links to the right local location,
with no other changes.	Run with Mozilla, you'll find that the actions fail
(due to the non-support of LAYER, I presume?), but more importantly, what we're
worried about here is that clicking on the object will not take you to the
corresponding page.  Right clicking and then selecting "open in new window"
WILL open the page, however.  But oddly, the new page will display the title of
the referring page.  Behavior with IE is nominal.  Behavior with Netscape 4.7x
is mixed: clicking on the links works, but the actions don't.  I believe that
this is due to what has been explained to me as weirdness in that browser, that
being if Javascript is residing in a file (in this instance, it is) instead of
in the HTML itself, behavior of local pages can be erratic.  I believe the
actions would work if the page was on the web or if I put the javascript code
in the HTML.

I'll be curious to see what you come up with.

Best,

-Jeff

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

OK, I've done some digging in that mess, and it looks like the code just assumes
that Mozilla is Netscape4 and uses proprietary Netscape4 DOM stuff...

Over to evang.

Comment 4

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

I assume that this problem is long fixed in the NetObjects software by now.