211869 - cox.com - IE-only DHTML

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[shadow_walker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030705
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030705

Clicking on any of the 3 buttons should display a full listing of channels, but
instead does nothing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open website
2. Try to click on any of the 3 buttons
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens (no channel listings created)

Expected Results:  
Used the appropriate pluging to display the content.

I had to use IE6 to view this page. I have all the necessary plugins I believe
to view this page in my mozilla plugins directory. (shockwave and flash players)

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

There's no Shockwave afaik, JavaScript console shows:

Error: window.event has no properties
Source File: http://www.cox.com/Arkansas/includes/systems/sys-arka.asp
Line: 333

from source:
[...]
function showChannels() 
{ var targetId; 
  var sourceElement; 
  var srcElement; 
  var targetElement; 
  srcElement = window.event.srcElement; 
  sourceElement = document.all(srcElement.id); 
  targetId = srcElement.id + "d"; 
  targetElement = document.all(targetId); 
  document.all("Blurb").style.display = "none";
[...]

Site uses document.all -> TE.

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

I didn´t find any browser sniffing code, they are blindly relying on IE only,
like using: style="cursor:hand;" 

and there is flash on this site:
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
 
codebase="https://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"
 WIDTH="110" HEIGHT="80" id="BestDealsPiggy_110">
 <param name="_cx" value="2910">
 <param name="_cy" value="2117">
 <param name="FlashVars" value="-1">
 <param name="Movie"
value="/iNetIncludes/PromotionalImages/arkansasBestDealsPiggy_110.swf">
 <param name="Src"
value="/iNetIncludes/PromotionalImages/arkansasBestDealsPiggy_110.swf">
 <param name="WMode" value="Window">
 <param name="Play" value="-1">

 <param name="Loop" value="-1">
 <param name="Quality" value="High">
 <param name="SAlign" value>
 <param name="Menu" value="-1">
 <param name="Base" value>
 <param name="Scale" value="ShowAll">
 <param name="DeviceFont" value="0">
 <param name="EmbedMovie" value="0">
 <param name="BGColor" value="FFFFFF">

 <param name="SWRemote" value>
 <embed src="/iNetIncludes/PromotionalImages/arkansasBestDealsPiggy_110.swf"
quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" WIDTH="110" HEIGHT="80"
NAME="arkansasBestDealsPiggy_110.swf" ALIGN TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>
</object>

Comment 3

[shadow_walker]

I thought it was a shockwave issue because when I opened the page in IE, it
asked to install shockwave. Should this be routed through Tech Evang. or an
issue for Quirks mode? It does seems like I remember a document.all problem
occuring before.

Comment 4

[Steve Chapel]

The error shown on the JavaScript console is:

"Error: window.event has no properties
Source File: http://www.cox.com/Arkansas/includes/systems/sys-arka.asp
Line: 469"

Comment 5

[Steve Chapel]

The URL now gives a 404 error.