215781 - gentemessenger.com - submit button in search form does not work

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Spanish, defect)

Description

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

build 2003080304 XP

1 go to http://www.gentemessenger.com/
2 click on búsqueda on the left menu
3 click on "hacer búsqueda" en el formulario

actual result : no action performed
expected result : search should start

There is a javascript error in the comprobaredad() function :

Error: buscar is not defined
Source File: http://www.internacional.gentemessenger.com/busqueda/
Line: 86

Comment 1

[RickieES aka Ricardo Palomares]

The problem is that the script uses <form_name>.submit() instead
document.<form_name>.submit() at lines 90:

	if((encminima==1)&&(encmaxima==1))

	{



		buscar.submit();

	}


and 99:

function submitear(estoy)

{

	estoy.submit();



}


A local fixed copy of the page works ok, returning search results (the form
action URL has to be changed to http://www.gentemessenger.com/busqueda/index.php).

The page doesn't validate at all at http://validator.w3.org/ (141 errors found).

Comment 2

[RickieES aka Ricardo Palomares]

The contact URL is http://www.gentemessenger.com/contactar/

But is form-based, so it has the same problem than the reported bug :-) i.e. it
uses <form_name>.submit(); instead document.<form_name>.submit();

Comment 3

[RickieES aka Ricardo Palomares]

Attachment: Modified TE letter sent to the webmaster (spanish)

This is the actual TE letter sent through the feedback form
(http://www.gentemessenger.com/contactar/) to the webmaster.

Comment 4

[RickieES aka Ricardo Palomares]

No answer from the webmaster has been received as of today. The web page still
has the same error. Any suggestion?

(BTW, I can't see a way to assign this bug to myself nor to change its status to
ASSIGNED; shouldn't I have a radio option "Accept this bug" right behind this
textarea?)

Comment 5

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

-> assigning

Comment 6

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

sending a message via the contact form, setting target to October.

If they don't reply or modify it, I suggest checking the site monthly and
contacting them once per quarter until they fix it.

BTW, the site was made by Soluciones Telemáticas MOL S.L. a Barcelona company
but I couldn't find their web site.

Comment 7

[RickieES aka Ricardo Palomares]

The problem persists.

The modified TE letter has been sent again trough the feedback form
http://www.gentemessenger.com/contactar/ (using the local, modified version of
that page).

Comment 8

[RickieES aka Ricardo Palomares]

The website works ok now. However, I think that it's because changes in Mozilla
and not in the website. JavaScript Console returns this error (roughly
translated back from spanish translation):

Warning: Element referenced by ID/NAME in global scope. Use the W3C standard
document.getElementById() instead.
Source file: http://www.gentemessenger.com/busqueda/
Line: 93

Should we accept this a solution for this bug? Anyway, people in website seemed
to blatantly ignore our TE letters.

Comment 9

[RickieES aka Ricardo Palomares]

The website has changed radically, the look up service seems to work OK now, and there is no JS errors, just some CSS warnings. Shouldn't we close this bug?

Comment 10

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

done :)