265737 - selfhtml.org - the special mozilla sidebar is not able to be installed with moz 1.7.3., works properly with Oprea

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: German, defect)

Description

[elmar brodmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; de-AT; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; de-AT; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

 SELFHTML is the well known documentation of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML,
XML/XSLT, CGI/Perl and more, with many additional tips for design, grafic,
project management, etc. We are sorry that we cannot offer an english web site
up to now. A translation of the SELFHTML documentation has been started some
time ago, but there is still a lot of work to be done.
You are encouraged to join the translation team!

english http://en.selfhtml.org/
SELFHTML Documentation (only the CSS Style Sheets chapter is translated into
english)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041022

SELFSide installed, but couldn´t load. JS console shows an error:

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004003
(NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER) [nsIRDFContainer.Init]"  nsresult: "0x80004003
(NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER)"  location: "JS frame ::
file:///C:/PROGRAMME/MOZILLA.ORG/ZIPS/MOZILLA/components/nsSidebar.js ::
anonymous :: line 148"  data: no]
Source File: file:///C:/PROGRAMME/MOZILLA.ORG/ZIPS/MOZILLA/components/nsSidebar.js
Line: 148

Steps to reproduce: (installs in german language, I assume)
1. sidebar must be open (F9)
2. http://aktuell.de.selfhtml.org/extras/selfside.htm#mozilla
3. click on "SELFHTML Sidebar installieren (Netscape 6.x oder Mozilla)"

SELFSide is inserted in Sidebar, uncollapsed, and tries to load something
There is a stop button, working. Loading again, after some time comes an 

Alert: aktuell.de.selfhtml.orghttp could not be found. Please ...

That´s not a typo, aktuell.de.selfhtml.orghttp is shown.

After ackknowledging the alert, the SELFSide content is showing:
This tab is not available right now.

There is also a description how to manually install a 2064 bytes sized
http://aktuell.de.selfhtml.org/extras/selfside.zip
for working with or without local webserver.

The automatic installation inserted into panels.rdf in my profile:


  <RDF:Description
RDF:about="urn:sidebar:3rdparty-panel:http://aktuell.de.selfhtml.orghttp://src.selfhtml.org/selfside.htm"
                   NC:title="SELFSide"
                  
NC:content="http://aktuell.de.selfhtml.orghttp://src.selfhtml.org/selfside.htm"
                   NC:persist="false" />

  <RDF:Seq RDF:about="rdf:#$nOtoE">
    <RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:sidebar:panel:whats-related"/>
    <RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:sidebar:panel:search"/>
    <RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:sidebar:panel:tinderbox"/>
    <RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:sidebar:panel:tinderbox-ports"/>
    <RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:sidebar:panel:bookmarks"/>
    <RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:sidebar:panel:history"/>
    <RDF:li
RDF:resource="urn:sidebar:3rdparty-panel:chrome://inspector/content/sidebar.xul"/>
    <RDF:li
RDF:resource="urn:sidebar:3rdparty-panel:http://www.heise.de/newsticker/sidebar2.html"/>
    <RDF:li
RDF:resource="urn:sidebar:3rdparty-panel:http://devedge.netscape.com//toolbox/sidebars/2003/multiBar/sidebar.xul"/>
    <RDF:li
RDF:resource="urn:sidebar:3rdparty-panel:http://aktuell.de.selfhtml.orghttp://src.selfhtml.org/selfside.htm"/>
  </RDF:Seq>
</RDF:RDF>

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

seems to be a bug of the website, source of the install button:

function selfside() {
    if ((typeof window.sidebar == "object") && (typeof window.sidebar.addPanel
== "function")) {
          window.sidebar.addPanel ("SELFSide",
          "http://aktuell.de.selfhtml.orghttp://src.selfhtml.org/selfside.htm","");
       }
       else { .....


Workaround #1:
When you have installed, close browser, make a copy of panels.rdf in your
profile. Edit panels.rdf with a texteditor, like notepad.

I changed the wrong link
http://aktuell.de.selfhtml.orghttp://src.selfhtml.org/selfside.htm
in three places to http://src.selfhtml.org/selfside.htm

After starting the browser, SELFSide was working fine.

Workaround #2: 

download http://aktuell.de.selfhtml.org/extras/selfside.htm
close browser

edit the JS function
from: "http://aktuell.de.selfhtml.orghttp://src.selfhtml.org/selfside.htm","");
to:   "http://aktuell.de.selfhtml.org","http://src.selfhtml.org/selfside.htm");

don´t know if this is necessary:
if SELFSide was installed, delete the SELFSITE entries from panel.rdf.
start browser
open your local copy of selfside.htm
install from there

I didn´t like the installed URL of workaround #2
http://aktuell.de.selfhtml.org
went back to the panel.rdf I made with workaround #1
http://src.selfhtml.org/selfside.htm

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yep, this is a bug in the site's sidebar install code.  Over to evang.

Comment 4

[Felix Miata]

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

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter or Helmut Schwab: Do you know if this is still an issue ?

Comment 6

[elmar brodmann]

Answer to Helmut Schwab:
Hello, this was half a decade ago. Now I primarily use Linux Xubuntu. There it works with Mozilla Firefox V. 3.0.6, which is the recommended version for Ubuntu Version 8.04, Linux kernel 2.6.24-23-generic, GNOME 2.22.3. It can be properly integrated into the All-in-One Sidebar version 0.7.8, which I recommend as a practical Add-on for Firefox. It appears there as an ordinary bookmark. Next time I will check it with F Fox and Opera in Windows XP, if there is a common interest. Maybe anybody else did it before, this combination is very popular.

Comment 7

[Hermann Schwab]

replaced outdated URL: http://aktuell.de.selfhtml.org/extras/selfside.htm#mozilla by current url http://de.selfhtml.org/navigation/sidebars/index.htm

Didn't test, but I will test some sidebars on some Firefox and Seamonkey versions, WinXP