263029 - msn.com - no drag customization without ActiveX

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Craig Ivicevic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

If you create a personal homepage in MSN it can not be customized with Firefox.
 With IE (UGH bad word I know) I can move content around and change column
widths and other such things just by draggin fields around.  With Firefox I am
unable to do these customizations.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create account with MSN and go to your My MSN page.
2.With IE you can drag content areas around and widen columns with Firefox you can't
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Content should be able to be moved and customized

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

The dragging customization is done with ActiveX controls, which Firefox doesn't
natively support. Any ideas about a solution to this problem? Evangelize
Microsoft to not use ActiveX in its sites? Support the main insecurity vector of
IE in Firefox?

Comment 2

[Phillip Stewart :P]

We could point out how http://a9.com/ does cross browser column resizing and
drag and drop.

Comment 3

[Felix Miata]

Conforming summary to TFM item 10 at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Is this still an issue? I don't have a Live login, so I can't check, but MSN has pretty thoroughly redesigned a lot of things on their various sites in the last three years.

Confirming for now, since this obviously *was* a TE problem at one point.

Comment 5

[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.