Closed
Bug 255062
Opened 21 years ago
Closed 18 years ago
mercurynews.com - meaningless JS alert message served to Gecko browsers
Categories
(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P2)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: ejbiow, Unassigned)
References
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Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
When I go to a newspaper ad site every time I navigate to a new page or zoom in
on a GIF image I get a 'Picking up style sheet' JavaScript Application dialogue
box (nag screen?) that requires me to hit the 'OK' button to proceed. If I
disable Javascript I don't get the message, but also can't view the GIFs that
comprise the sub-parts of the ad.
The message is pretty useless to me and very annoying; I now use IE to visit the
site. I've had the same symptoms with every recent version of Mozilla and
Firewhatever that I've used. Mozilla has had this problem with certain pages at
least since September 2003 when a fellow reported the problem on the Usenet:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=c4f7a7b3.0309020908.2ece1253%40posting.google.com&rnum=5&prev=/groups%3Fas_q%3Dpicking%2520up%2520style%2520sheet%2520javascript%26amp%3Bnum%3D30%26amp%3Bhl%3Den
IE 6.0 used to have the same problems, but I don't get the symptom going to my
page.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=yeM4b.2769%24Bv6.831572%40news1.epix.net&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fas_q%3Dpicking%2520up%2520style%2520sheet%2520Javascript%26amp%3Bnum%3D30%26amp%3Bhl%3Den
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to or reload web page http://newspaperads.mercurynews.com/RopCategory.aspx
2. Get annoying bloody dialogue box
3. Get frustrated, use Firefox context menu extension to view page in IE.
Actual Results:
Dialogue box
Expected Results:
Go to page without making me click OK at every navigation.
Comment 1•21 years ago
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The site's own script is saying to do that.
if (is.ns6 && is.mac==false) {
var css = "<LINK rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'
href='http://www.mercurynews.com/css/palette/mercurynews/en/browser/ns6.css'>\n";
document.write(css);
alert('picking up style sheet ')
}
Write the site and ask them to fix the code.
->TE
Priority: -- → P2
Summary: Navigating in page kicks up 'picking up style sheet' [Javascript Application] dialogue box → mercurynews.com - meaningless JS alert message served to Gecko browsers
Updated•21 years ago
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Assignee: general → english-us
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Browser-General → English US
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Browser → Tech Evangelism
QA Contact: general → english-us
Version: Trunk → unspecified
Comment 2•20 years ago
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*** Bug 260232 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3•18 years ago
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Looks FIXED to me sometime in the last three years.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Updated•10 years ago
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Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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