265010 - wamoolaforschools.com - IE specific JS for navigation

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P3)

Description

[Miles Lane]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

In Internet Explorer, the Javascript on this page causes usable URLs to be
shown.  In Firefox, the are busted.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1)  Load http://www.wamoolaforschools.com/statistics.aspx
2)  Select a state in dropdown list (e.g. Washington)
3)  Select a city in the dropdown list (e.g. Seattle)
4)  Click on a letter in the alphabetical list (e.g. "J")
5)  Click on John Rogers Elementary

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.  In Internet Explorer, this link is a usable URL.
Apparently, Firefox is not executing the requisite Javascript to insert the URLs
in the page.
 

Expected Results:  
The URLs should be valid after the steps are followed.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

Error: window.navigate is not a function
Source File: http://www.wamoolaforschools.com/statistics.aspx
Line: 825

The site is using IE-specific coding.  They would need to rewrite their
scripting to be cross-browser compatible.  You might write to them and suggest it.

Comment 2

[Miles Lane]

Do you want me to write them or do you have someone dedicated to this sort of
follow up?

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Do you want me to write them or do you have someone dedicated to this sort of
> follow up?

Better than it comes from you, as a concerned user/customer of the site, rather
than just a random person.  It has a little more weight.

If you do write, make a note of it here.  And if you get a reply, make a note of
that as well.

You might check out the Tech Evangelism project site for tips and ideas.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/

Comment 4

[Miles Lane]

Here is the message I sent to them.  Unfortunately, they had no link to the
website administrator's e-mail address, so I had to sent the message to a
shotgun list of possible admin addresses.

------------------------------------------------

Dear system administrator or WAMU employee,

I am encountering a bug in your web site.

When I attempt to use
http://www.wamoolaforschools.com/statistics.aspx
with my browser (Mozilla Firefox), the page fails to
give me usable URLs.  This is because your website's
Javascript contains Internet Explorer specific code.

To reproduce the problem, when running Firefox:
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1)  Load
http://www.wamoolaforschools.com/statistics.aspx
2)  Select a state in dropdown list (e.g. Washington)
3)  Select a city in the dropdown list (e.g. Seattle)
4)  Click on a letter in the alphabetical list (e.g.
"J")
5)  Click on John Rogers Elementary

Result:
     Error: window.navigate is not a function 

Source File:    
http://www.wamoolaforschools.com/statistics.aspx
Line: 825

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For testing purposes, you can get Firefox for free
here:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

I would appreciate it if you would rewrite this
function so that it supports the general Javascript
standard that is used by Firefox, Netscape, Safari,
Mozilla, Opera and others.

By the way, your website lacks a links to the website
administrator's e-mail address, which makes it
difficult for me to report a problem.

Thanks very much,
      Miles Lane

Comment 5

[Miles Lane]

I reported the problem today, after I finally located a way to contact the web
admin.  Here's a link to the page for submitting problem reports:

https://online.wamu.com/messagecenter/General/TechnicalMessage.aspx

Comment 6

[Bill Mason]

Milestone = Future after 1 month with no reply from institution.

Comment 7

[sjw]

Page is down.
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