189869 - i cannot open the link which will do the following script javascript:openFullScreenWin (document.layers, document.all)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Rommel S. Laranjo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830

I was trying to access a link in at
http://cisco.netacad.net/cnams/home/ManageInstructor ... this page can only by
accessed by cisco academy instructors like me. this page works fine if im using
windows 98 OS but when i accessed it using Redhat 8.0 using the Mozilla browser,
everytime i click the Take Assessment link, nothing will happen. The link will
try to execute javascript:openFullScreenWin ... is this not support in Mozilla?
I was planning to use RedHat 8.0 for all my workstations, but i have to go back
to windows 98 for a while until this will be solve.  

thanks alot.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
support this script. javascript:openFullScreenWin

Comment 1

[John Morrison]

If you can provide the source for that page, then maybe this bug will stay open.
But, as it stands now, I have no idea what you are trying to say.

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Mass-reassigning bugs to [e-mail]

Comment 3

[Dave Habben]

Attachment: Javascript from the Cisco site

This bug still does exist as of 1.5b

Comment 4

[Dave Habben]

This looks to be a duplicate of bug 200305 which has a patch that supposedly
fixes this. Another duplicate is bug 208090. 

This makes Mozilla unusable as a web browser for the sites using the Cisco
Academy Web Curriculum.

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(reporter !?) Could you provide reproductible steps or _a testcase_ ?

<http://cisco.netacad.net/cnams/home/ManageInstructorClass.jsp;jsessionid=igxhrswip1.t7L?classID=1515395&>
returns "Your session has expired. Please click the link below and log in again."
(private access, with ";jsessionid=", is useless :-()

and <http://cisco.netacad.net/cnams/home/ManageInstructor>
returns "Not found request: /cnams/home/ManageInstructor" :-<

Also check the JavaScript Console for messages appearing with this bug:
Cut&Paste the messages, or say that there's none.

Thanks.

Comment 6

[Dave Habben]

Attachment: Javascript Testcase

This script works on IE 6.0 and Netscape 4.8. I've also verified that it
doesn't work in Mozilla 1.0.2 - 1.5b

Comment 7

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Attachment: 'openFullScreenWin()' testcase v2 (enhanced)

Re comment 6:

[Microsoft Internet Explorer, version 5 (5.00.3105.0106) (128b, SP1)] (W98SE)

Working, using 'document.all'.

[Netscape® Communicator 4.8 : en-20020722] (W98SE)

Working, using 'document.layers'.

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624] (W98SE)

Irrelevant, since there is no actual code for Mozilla.
(No javascript error anyway.)

Suggestion: have a look at <http://www.stopbadtherapy.com/standards.shtml>
(just found it on Google...).


Since I guess the initial description was comparing Mozilla (/Linux) to MsIE
(/W98),
this bug will be resolved as Invalid, unless an actual issue is posted within a
week.

Comment 8

[Dave Habben]

As an instructor, I've sent the following over to the Cisco Accademy bug
database. Hopefully this will alow them to work with NS 6,7 & Mozilla.

There is an error in this file:
http://cisco.netacad.net/cnamsassets/js/global.js
That causes Netscape 6 & 7, and Mozilla to fail to display the Assessment page
because of non-standard code.

The function openFullScreenWin fails to account for Standards based browsers.
Just by adding the code in the else statement here allows them to work properly.

function openFullScreenWin(url) {
   if (document.layers) {
	// Netscape 4.x
 	windowWidth = screen.width - 9;
	windowHeight = screen.height - 58;
	windowprops = "scrollbars,alwaysRaised,titlebar=0,top=0,left=0,width=" +
windowWidth + ",height=" + windowHeight;
	myNewWin = window.open(url, "popupPage", windowprops);
	myNewWin.focus()
   }
   else if (document.all) {
	// IE 5.x and above
  	myNewWin = window.open(url, "popupPage", 'fullscreen=yes,scrollbars=yes');
  	myNewWin.focus()
   }
   else {
	// Netscape 6-7, Mozilla
	myNewWin = window.open(url, "popupPage", "fullscreen=yes,scrollbars=yes");
   }
}

For further reference you can see this document that gives reasoning for moving
away from proprietary feature: document.layers and document.all
http://www.stopbadtherapy.com/standards.shtml

Comment 9

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Based on comment 8,
and private email reading
"... ok to mark this as INVALID as it's just an old script at fault.":

Resolving bug as Invalid.