201710 - hmco.com - Reloads if I resize window

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Ben]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20030306 Camino/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20030306 Camino/0.7

As Netscape does, Camino reloads on web pages that use CSS and have told
Netscape browsers to reload after a window resize. This was frustrating,
especially when I had entered tons of form data and made the mistake of resizing
the window.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a site that reloads if the browser is Netscape.
2. Resize the window.
Actual Results:  
The site reloaded, clearing form data.

Expected Results:  
The site should not reload; form data should remain.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Ben, please provide an example URL.

Comment 2

[Ben]

http://college.hmco.com/cgi-bin/SaCGI.cgi/ace1app.cgi?FNC=AcePresent__Apresent_html___his_bailey_38

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

Tech Evangelism, it's that site's own fault. In function reDo in
<http://college.hmco.com/shared/javascript/menu.js>, they test
navigator.appVersion for the presence of "Netscape" and the *absence* of "4.0"
to determine whether or not to reload. What they meant to do was test for the
*presence* of "4.0".

That is, we see:

if(navigator.appName=="Netscape" && navigator.appVersion.indexOf("4.0")==-1)

where we would expect to see:

if(navigator.appName=="Netscape" && navigator.appVersion.indexOf("4.0")!=-1)

Actually, it's silly for them to test for browser version here, since they
already do extensive browser sniffing in
<http://college.hmco.com/shared/javascript/platform.js> and
<http://college.hmco.com/shared/javascript/common_functions.js>.

Comment 4

[Frankie]

In Moz 1.4a OSX, the quiz selections are retained after the resize, avoiding
dataloss.

Contact addresses are [e-mail] and
http://college.hmco.com/cgi-bin/SaCGI.cgi/college/catalog.class?FNC=GoWriteToUs__Fcust_serv_midpage_html

Comment 5

[Ben]

The same goes for Internet Explorer 5.x.

Comment 6

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 7

[guanxi]

See bug 235871:  The same problem, adding a skin that resizes on a page load,
causes continuous reloads.

Comment 8

[nemo]

URL is now broken although problem still remains in the JS, so I suppose reporter should provide a new URL.

Comment 9

[Christopher Lynch [:Christopher]]

Marking this as new -- if this does not happen anymore, reporter can mark as resolved or others can comment saying so.

Comment 10

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

redirected to http://college.cengage.com/redirect/ace_redirect.html?FNC=AcePresent__Apresent_html___his_bailey_38

the quiz doesn't exist anymore.