205964 - javascript funtions that return a value result in the returned value being displayed on a otherwise blank page.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 205989

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

Description

[Scott Kester]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516

Go to www.weather.com and click on any of the links at the very top of the page.
 These links call a javascript funciton names smartTrack, that sets
document.location to a URL and then returns false.  Clicking on a link results
in a page with the word false.

I have attached a test case that shows 3 variations on the smartTrack function.
 One returns false, one returns true, and the other does not have a return
statement.  Only the function without the return has the expected result.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to www.weather.com
2.Click any link at very top of page


Actual Results:  
You get a page with the word false, not the page you wanted

Expected Results:  
Should go to linked page

This seems to have shown up in the last week or so.

Comment 1

[Scott Kester]

Attachment: Test case that shows bug

Test case.

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

The JavaScript Engine component is for the abstract objects of
the language: Date(), Number(), RegExp().

DOM or browser behavior is for other components of the project.
Reassigning to DOM Level 0 for further triage -

Comment 3

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 205989 ***

Comment 4

[Scott Kester]

When I try to find the status of the bug this bug was duped to, 205989, I get
the following from bugzilla:

 You are not authorized to access bug #205989.

My questions is, how can I find out the status of 205989 so I know when to
test/rebuild?  I don't need to know the details of the bug, just when it is fixed.

Thanks.

Comment 5

[Phil Schwartau]

Scott: bug 205989 should now be publicly viewable.
Please let us know if you still can't access it; thanks -