233560 - Frame-based HTTP mail application, not redisplaying title bar

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[JavaDevelop]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

This mail application is frame based, and when new mail arrives, should
redisplay the title bar with "1 new message...etc".  It has always worked fine
in IE, but hasn't worked in any build of Firebird or Firefox.  This is a tough
one to test.  If someone wants to test thoroughly, contact me and I will give
you access to a generic mail account.  It's most likely using some MS JScript to
update the title bar, but I'd guess other framed web applications, may have the
same problem.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login to mail account.  http://mail.javadevelop.com (contact me for login and
password).
2. Multi-frame Inbox will load and title bar will display "WebMail -
[e-mail]"
3. Every 5 minutes an auto-refresh is sent to the server.
4. If new mail arrives, title bar SHOULD redisplay as "WebMail - 1 new message -
[e-mail]
5. Step 4 works fine in IE 5 and above, but not in any build or Firebird or Firefox.
Actual Results:  
Title bar does not update.

Expected Results:  
Title bar should update displaying number of new messages, and a system ding.

Comment 1

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Do you see any Javascript errors (Tools | JavaScript Console)?

Comment 2

[JavaDevelop]

No JavaScript errors displayed in the JavaScript Console.

Comment 3

[Thomas]

Was this tested with another browser than Firefox or IE?
Couldn't this be an error in the application?

PS looks like the site hasn't been updated in a while...

Comment 4

[Gary van der Merwe]

This page has jscript to change the the frame set page's title. It has been
designed to only work for IE. This code was found in in "print.25508.cgi" It
look like this:

if(newMsgCount>=0){
	// rewriting frameset title only works with IE
	var x=""
	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE') >= 0){
		x+="WebMail - " + newMsgCount
		if(newMsgCount!=1){
		  x+=' ' + X.NewMsgs
		}else{
		  x+=' ' + X.NewMsg
		}
		x+=" - "
	}else{
		x+="WebMail - "
	}
	x+="[e-mail]"
	if(top.document.domain==parent.document.domain)
		top.document.title = x 
}

Comment 5

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

It looks like it's only making the title string for IE, but it tries to set the
frameset title in any browser.

Gary, can you try using the user agent switcher to identify as IE and see what
happens? This is probably Tech Evang, but I'd like to see if we actually *can*
retitle a frameset.

Comment 6

[Gary van der Merwe]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 7

[Gary van der Merwe]

Attachment: Testcase - to set frameset title.

It is definatly possable to set the frameset title.

The devloper of this page felt that this pice of code would only work in IE. 

		x+="WebMail - " + newMsgCount
		if(newMsgCount!=1){
		  x+=' ' + X.NewMsgs
		}else{
		  x+=' ' + X.NewMsg
		}
		x+=" - "

I'm not sure why though. If you guys have access to the code, try removing the 

	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE') >= 0){
and
	}else{
		x+="WebMail - "
	}
and see if it works. 

These pages have good information for devloping for Mozilla:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/upgrade_2.html

You can also ask questions on the newsgroups:
netscape.public.mozilla
(http://groups.google.com/groups?q=netscape.public.mozilla)
netscape.public.mozilla.dom
(http://groups.google.com/groups?group=netscape.public.mozilla.dom)

Please can we close this bug. It is not a problem with Firefox/Mozilla.

Comment 8

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Moving to Tech Evangelism and confirming.

Comment 9

[Thomas]

When I go the the URL above I get a login screen... isn't this normal behaviour?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225
Firefox/1.0.1

Comment 10

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Thomas, this is about the app setting the title. Shawn, is this still a problem?

Comment 11

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no response