26438 - combobox javascript actions not rewriting page content correctly

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[justin hugh daly]

on solaris build pulled from cvs on 3 feb 2000 11 am:

comboboxes on the page generate a javascript alert (?) rather than reload the
subcategory for that particular category:

   3.x browsers [/ows-pre/26440.html?sbc_id=26400&sname=World:module1]

(at least that's what i think the content of the alert read -- it'd be handy to
be able to copy/paste that)

Comment 1

[Sean Richardson]

Moving from "Javascript Engine" to "DOM Level 0".

Best guess: this page uses non-standard javascript that fails, or a sniffer
that is detecting Mozilla as a 3.x browser, although quick inspection of
View Source from both NN4.7 and yesterday's M14 build on WinNT didn't show
different HTML code.

Hard to tell. It looks like to see a page with comboboxes, it is necessary to 
register with myCNN first.

This could also be due to changes for bug 18189, "[INC CONTENT SINK] select 
scrollbars display multiple times on js enhanced form", M14.

Comment 2

[Mike McCabe]

Reassigning to DOM component.

Comment 3

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

The problem with the combobox is as [e-mail] correctly guessed due to
non-standard JS on the page (or rather in an external javascript). Therefore
I'll mark this as invalid but before I do that I'll fix an other problem that
shows up on the url in this bug, namely a meta refresh problem, the page 
contains and invalid meta refresh tag with "900, URL=...", it should be
"900; URL=...", this causes mozilla to load the page over and over again
without the 900 (0 in stead) second delay in between reloads. I've got a fix
for this and once that is checked in I'll mark this bug invalid, for more info
on the non-standard js see

        http://sites.netscape.net/ekrock/standards.html

Comment 4

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Attachment: Fix for the refresh problem...

Comment 5

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

The refresh problem was fixed by valeskis checkin on 03/11/2000 17:11. Thus
marking this bug invalid due to the bad JS on the page.

Comment 6

[Prashant Desale]

invalid per [e-mail]