218187 - Main page dropdown menu is correct but subsection baseball, nfl etc dropdown menu is mangled due to flash

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Nik Mani]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

The main page layout dropdown menu renders correctly. but selecting subsection
ie baseball, nfl etc causes incorrect rendering. The dropdown menu gets hidden
by flash overlay.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/ dropdown menus nfl, mlb, ncaa work correctly
2. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb (subsection when mlb is selected)
3. dropdown menu is behind the flash menu bar hiding the top section of the menu

Actual Results:  
top part of menu is hidden

Expected Results:  
menu should drop down below the flash header

ie renders correctly, bug exists in 1.4 as well on win2K

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

*** Bug 203011 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

URL of Bug 203011 was showing the bug only part-time, with a special ad, until
mid of April.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203011#c10
When bug was seen, there were two flash ads on the page.
1.3.1 was showing both correctly, i.e. noshowing when menu was open.
1.4.a was showing both above the menu.
1.4 and trunk was showing upper ad correctly, i.e. noshow if menue open, lower
ad above menue.

Screenshots in that bug 203011

Comment 3

[Hermann Schwab]

confirming Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030903
tested on 1.3.1, 1.4 and trunk.
The menus to the right, i.e. tennis, more, fantasies and scores are not showing
this bug.

Comment 4

[Nik Mani]

Attachment: SI.com main page dropdown menus showing no error

Comment 5

[Nik Mani]

Attachment: Subsection dropdown menu showing the layout error

Comment 6

[Nik Mani]

Attachment: IE rendering the subsection layout correctly

Comment 7

[Hermann Schwab]

Attachment: small detail showing bug, soccer, 37 kb

As the other attachments are rather big, about 175 kb, here a small one, 37 kb,
showing only the relevant part, bug seen in Soccer menu, Mozilla BuildID
2003090204
I´ve also got one, 27 kb, showing the good menu of More Sports.

I´ve seen this bug also with Opera 7.20b8 and Opera 7.20b7 (betas) on Win98SE
and Win98.

Comment 8

[Nik Mani]

Does this bug depend on screen resolution ? I have the same blocking effect on
the whole top menu level including more sports, fantasy etc to the right side.
The flash section on my screen stretches the whole width of the top menu. 
1072X768 screen size.

Comment 9

[Nik Mani]

The bug seems to be unrelated to screen resolution. I am unable to get the drop
down menus to come above the flash menu even on the right side of the screen in
ref to comment #3 and #7. The whole top menu is mangled.

Comment 10

[Hermann Schwab]

Attachment: 27kb More sports, ok, screen resolution 800x600

re comment 3 and comment 7:
Screen size has been 800x600, on different hardware running win98 and win98SE
resp.

Comment 11

[Nik Mani]

The difference I believe is that the MORE SPORTS banner is not a flash enabled
menu as the other banners are. I shows up as a simple image link tag. The other
banners have the original dropdown menu list as clickable links + a serch option.
In addition the when you get far enough to the right the flash enabled madden ad
does the same thing to the dropdown menu as the flash enabled banner. It appears
that the plugin is rendered in the foreground and the html in the background. It
should be the other way around.

Comment 12

[Nik Mani]

Attachment: More sports showing the madden flash error

Comment 13

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

A simplified testcase or an accurate date of regression would be useful.  (In
fact, I'd prefer if layout bugs weren't confirmed without one or the other.)

Comment 14

[Hermann Schwab]

Attachment: 33 kb zip testcase MLB

testcase MLB, needs flash, is working offline: unzip into a directory, start
MLB.html

Comment 15

[Hermann Schwab]

Attachment: view of bug 203011, 29 kb png

Saw bug 203011 today:
Menu 'More Sports', hovering over 'Tennis', and submenu was hidden by a flash
ad below. The ads at this place are changing, mostly are gifs, sometimes flash.

If there is a gif ad, all is working normally. If there is a flash ad, the
submenu is under the ad.
This can´t be seen in the testcase, as it ends below the menu bar.

Comment 16

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

The www.1tv.lv website (see bug 191680) also suffers from this bug...

Comment 17

[Hermann Schwab]

*** Bug 220094 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

is this a dupe of Bug 111920?

Comment 19

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

*** Bug 229523 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 20

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 233554 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 21

[Alfonso Martinez]

The problem is that the code for the flash banner is different for IE and
Mozilla. In IE it has the parameter wmode set to transparent, but it lacks such
attribute for mozilla. 
Changing line 174 in the 33Kb Zip testcase MLB to 
	document.write('<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"
WIDTH="770" HEIGHT="60"><param name="WMode" value="Transparent"><PARAM
NAME=movie VALUE="'+MM_flashLocation+'"><PARAM NAME="quality"
VALUE="high"><PARAM NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="#FFFFFF"><EMBED
src="'+MM_flashLocation+'" quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" WIDTH="770"
HEIGHT="60" NAME="myMovieName" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
wmode="transparent"></EMBED></OBJECT>');

makes it work.
-> evangelism.

Comment 22

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Looks like they noticed and changed the section banner to an image instead of
flash. fixed.

Comment 23

[Jesiah S]

*** Bug 237388 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***