199656 - reuters.com - Hidden drop down menu displays in the wrong place relative to IE

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Paul Wolpe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030312 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030312 Phoenix/0.5

There is a drop down menu when you move your mouse over "ABOUT REUTERS" on the
upper right hand side of the screen when you view in IE.  With Mozilla/Pheonix
is always displays the drop down (as opposed to only when the mouse is there),
and it shows up in the wrong place.  I don't know if this the Gecko's fault or
more likely Reuters writing bad DHTML.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://about.reuters.com/
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Drop down always shows

Expected Results:  
Not shown the menu until the mouse was over the link.

Comment 1

[Kevin Gadd]

Verified Moz 2003032808/WXP SP1
Also the menu displaces the page content and is not horizontally placed correctly.

Comment 2

[Chris Casciano]

-> Tech Evangelism

Menu is positioned properly only if document.all.. code is pretty clean in its
fallback to an "unknown" browser, but there's no reason it can't be forked to
work the same in a standards compliant browser

see:
http://about.reuters.com/aboutus/index_js/nav.js

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

fixed