186297 - bpiexpressonline.com - The pop-up menus on the page don't pop up.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[csj]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux)
Build Identifier: 

The pop-up menus on the page at http://www.bpiexpressonline.com/ don't appear
when I point at the graphic hot zone that is supposed to trigger a particular
pop-up menu (such as "Application Center" and "Products and Services".
Strangely, the menus do appear when I use Konqueror! I don't have any Windows
computer to test how the menus behave in Explorer, so please check.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go over to the page
2. Hover the mouse over the blue curve graphic on which is printed headings like
"Application Center", "Products and Services" or "Corporate Information"


Actual Results:  
No pop-up menus appear. All I get is a message at the browser status bar about
"javascript:void(")"

Expected Results:  
The pop-up menus should appear.

The pop-up menus appear in Konqueror. But even with this browser the pop-up
menus appear a bit brain-damaged. I need to fiddle with the "view" magnification
to get the pop-up menus to unroll fully on the screen.

Comment 1

[csj]

BTW I tried Netscape 7.0 and it appears to have the same problem with the site.
I tried changing the User-Agent string but it still doesn't help.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> TE 

old and broken hiermenu

Comment 3

[Phil Schwartau]

Thank you for such a well-written bug report! The problem is due
to coding errors at the site. Here is their browser-sniffing:

<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.2" TYPE="text/javascript">
NS4 = (document.layers);
IE4 = (document.all);
ver4 = (NS4 || IE4);
IE5 = (IE4 && navigator.appVersion.indexOf("5.")!=-1);
isMac = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Mac") != -1);
isMenu = (NS4 || (IE4 && !isMac) || (IE5 && isMac));

if (!ver4) event=null;
if (isMenu) {
  menuVersion = 3;
  
      etc.

  isFrames = false;

      etc.
      etc.
}


Notice that the variable |isFrames| is conditionally defined.
In Mozilla, the condition |isMenu| evaluates to |false|, hence
the variable |isFrames| never gets defined!!!

That leads to errors when this external JS file is loaded:
http://www.bpiexpressonline.com/hierMenus.js, which begins: 

loader = (isFrames) ? (NS4) ? parent : parent.document.body : window;

That causes execution to stop at this line, leading to further errors.
For example, variables declared after this line never get defined,
such as:

isLoaded = false;


That leads to the following error when we mouseover the blue curve
at the site (Tools > Web Development > JavaScript Console):

       Error: isLoaded is not defined
       Source File: http://www.bpiexpressonline.com/hierMenus.js
       Line: 753

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 5

[Daniel.S]

This website now uses a different script that works.