266701 - yahoo.com - Unable to click top 5 links in "Headlines" section

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Aaron Eppert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

I am unable to select any of the top 5 "Headlines" as the mouse pointer remains
as the system pointer and does not change to the selection hand pointer.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the Url



Expected Results:  
Should have been able to select all the links under "Headlines"

Comment 1

[Aaron Eppert]

Attachment: HTML from page in question

This is the HTML from Yahoo Finance that shows the bug.

Comment 2

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

There is a badly sized flash object overlaid onto the first few links.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041028
Firefox/1.0RC1, with Flashblock extension.

Comment 3

[Ali Ebrahim]

Occurs in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5)
Gecko/20041027 as well.

Comment 4

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Attachment: Screenshot of Flashblock bounding box

I have always found Flashblock quite reliable in displaying the "bounding box"
for flash objects.

NB: Flashblock doesn't support the new install method for Firefox and requires
manual uninstall.

Comment 5

[Nate Koechley]

Tracking at Yahoo! as bug #255687.

Note, the "oversized hit area" is transparent in Firefox, but opaque black in
Safari (just for comparison and easy visualization of the bug).

Comment 6

[Hermann Schwab]

Attachment: reduced testcase

reduced HTML and css, loads original flash

Comment 7

[Hermann Schwab]

Is this working in IE, or a tech-evangelism bug?

div km_swf1 overlaps, as seen in the Screenshot of Flashblock bounding box from
comment 4

from the testcase, made from the original URL:

<style>
#km_swf1   {position: absolute; left:-350; top:-50; width: 700; height: 350;
visibility:visible; z-index: 903;}
#km_placer {position: relative; left:0; top:0; width: 300; height: 250;
visibility:visible; z-index: 900;}


<div id="km_placer"><div id="km_swf1"><object 

Comment 8

[Aaron Eppert]

This page works fine in IE.

Comment 9

[Hermann Schwab]

Attachment: more reduced testcase with coloured borders

<object> with empty source, src=""
all links replaced with links to this bug.

Comment 10

[Hermann Schwab]

(In reply to comment #8)
> This page works fine in IE.

Aaron did you check the page, or the testcase?
The page is using different CSS for IE, and may serve different CSS for IE,
so you should try IE on the reduced mozilla testcases over here.

This CSS may behave differently in Mozilla and IE:
width:expression(document.all.footer?((document.all.footer.offsetWidth>1000)?'980'+'px':document.all.footer.offsetWidth):'62.5'+'em');

Comment 11

[Aaron Eppert]

The specific testcases fail in IE also.
Pardon me for not doing this previously.

Comment 12

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Evangelism, since they're serving us different content.

Comment 13

[Felix Miata]

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

Comment 14

[Nate Koechley]

this has been fixed. while maybe not the ideal solution, gif's are servered to
non-IE agents.

considered "Fixed"

Comment 15

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

thanks Nate!