219611 - irongatebrooklyn.com - nav menu uses proprietary JS/bad browser detection

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P4)

Description

[Ben Peikes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

The menu on the left side of the page does not work. When you mouse over View
Properties, it is supposed to bring up a menu in another layer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

The site's JavaScript browser detection is defective:

//simple browser check
f7_v4=(parseInt(navigator.appVersion)>=4 && parseInt(navigator.appVersion)<=5)?1:0
f7_ie=(document.all && f7_v4)?1:0
f7_ns=(document.layers && f7_v4)?1:0

Since Mozilla does not support the proprietary protocols document.all or
document.layers, we get no result.

You might write to the site and ask them to update their script. 
http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2001/updating-dhtml-web-pages/ is a
useful starting point.

->TE

Comment 2

[Ben Peikes]

Sent [e-mail] a message regarding the fix and included the url
you recommended.

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.