196900 - smartgrowth.net uses layers for NS and document.all for everything else

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Dave]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030309
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030309

The row of links at the top of the page (Issues, Initiatives, Calendar, etc)
doesn't work because of the following code in
http://smartgrowth.net/global/scripts/sg_HeadNav_IE.js

if (navigator.appName == "Netscape"){
var layerRef="document.layers";
var styleSwitch="";
}else{
var layerRef="document.all";
var styleSwitch=".style";
} 

I wrote the following letter to the uli.org (parent website) webmaster on Feb
7th and have received no response. The page is still broken.

" I recently found ULI's new smartgrowth.net website from a link on
experts.uli.org. I enjoyed it, except for the fact that I had to copy some of
the links out of the page source in order for them to work on my Netscape 7+
browser.

The problem is with the use of the now deprecated document.layers in
http://smartgrowth.net/global/scripts/sg_HeadNav_IE.js, which Netscape
developers decided to drop, beginning with Netscape 6, due to its non-compliance
with w3c standards.

For more information on what features are no longer supported in recent versions
of Netscape, and what alternatives can be used that should work in all standards
compliant browsers, please refer to the following page from the Mozilla
organization:

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/upgrade_2.html

Thanks in advance and sorry about any inconvenience."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to page
2. Mouse over links and try to follow them.
3. Doesn't work

Actual Results:  
Use of deprecated proprietary JS extensions makes page very hard to use.

Expected Results:  
Page should at least include a fall-back for standards compliant browsers if it
insists on using NS4 and IE proprietary extensions.

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

owned by domain grabber