212874 - gettyimages.com - serving up ns4 css & javascript (incl. document.layers)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P2)

Description

[ireid2k]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030711
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030711

Upon loading the page the whole thing is shunted to the bottom. One needs to
scroll down to get the whole page in view. This seems to be because the
Javascript does not render the pull down menus that exist at the top of the page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load the page
Actual Results:  
Blank white Page, with scroll bars

Expected Results:  
Load at the top

None

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Please don't file bugs on the JS engine unless you are very much sure that it's
a problem in the JS engine.  In particular, almost all problems having to do
with interaction with documents are _not_ problems in the JS engine but problems
in the DOM.

In this particular case, the page decides that Mozilla is Netscape 4 and tries
to make mozilla run some document.layers code (which does not work in Mozilla,
of course).

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

Please also be aware that bugs in the WaMCom 1.3.1 Mozilla build are to be
reported to WaMCom.  Mozilla.org did not produce this build and does not fix
browser bugs that may be found in it.  The only Mac versions Mozilla.org puts
out are for OS X.

Comment 3

[louis bennett]

taking; i contacted getty via its online form.

-> P2: major site, minor problem.

Comment 4

[louis bennett]

*** Bug 99077 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[louis bennett]

*** Bug 170189 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[louis bennett]

hrm. actually assigning this time. (-:

Comment 7

[louis bennett]

from getty's response:

Currently we do not support the Mozilla or Safari browsers. Our developers are
aware of issues when using these browsers to view the site. In the meantime, we
suggest using newer versions of Internet Explorer 5.x and later or Netscape 6.1
and later until we do support Mozilla.

as they support ns6.1+ and not mozilla, i imagine it's just an issue of
correctly mapping mozilla's HTTP_USER_AGENT string to the netscape 6.1+ config.

Comment 8

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Louis, please forward their response to me so that I can communicate with them
directly.

Comment 9

[Olivier Cahagne]

*** Bug 225555 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[louis bennett]

the getty images site has been fixed. yay!