186997 - Microsoft style popup does not show in pages with <a ID="wpopupweb">

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[dirtyoldm]

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

These things are like Tooltips for web pages.
Apparantly yet another 'gotcha' from our friend Billy Gates.

They don't show in Mozilla, but if you Ctrl-C copy the text surrounding it, it gets copied.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsnetserver/proddocs/server/fsutil_volume.asp
2.About 1/4 of the way down the scrollable frame on the right, look for underlined text "globally unique identifier (GUID)".  It looks like a link.
3.In IE6, it pops up a window that says "A 16-byte value generated from the unique identifier on a device, the current date and time, and a sequence number. A GUID is used to identify a particular device or component."
Actual Results:  
In Mozilla 1.2.1 you don't see the popup

Expected Results:  
Sigh.  Chase Bill Gates again and figure out how to show those <a ID="wpopupweb"> tags.

If Bill knows Mozilla won't show these, he'll lure users of Front Page etc into using them more and more!

Comment 1

[Ruslan Ismailov]

Of coutse this feature does not work. In shared.js there is function
onclickTriage(). And it is started from var e= window.event.srcElement (than e
is used to decide following action); This is IE-only stuff.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

evangelism.

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 4

[Olivier Cahagne]

Fixed, no more <a id... tags in this page.