268283 - learntests.co.uk - test pages rendered incorrectly and fail to work.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Alex Watson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5

The site which has this bug requires login, which I'm not at liberty to
disclose. I've tried to provide the relevant files as listed below, but I fear
they're not much good. I can provide further files as needed.

See http://www.zen24203.zen.co.uk/learnp/ for what I think are the files related
to this. I don't know in which the problem occurs, and I'm not
HTML/javascript-savvy enough to be able to diagnose or fix the site's problems.
However, I can vaguely describe what goes on: clicking the 'start test' button
in Default.aspx opens a window with the contents of test2.html in it. Clicking
the button which mozilla displays in test2.html simply appears to do nothing.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
See details above. From website (logged in):
1. enter the test centre
2. choose test
3. click 'start test'
4. click button in newly-opened window
Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
Test begins, with shiny buttons and so on.

Given the nature of the site (requiring login, and clearly being designed
exclusively for IE) I fear that this is hopeless. Feel free to disregard the bug
on this basis.

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

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

Reporter, when you file a TE bug, please follow the reporting guidelines.

Comment 2

[Alex Watson]

This has also been tested by myself and friends on Firefox/Windows 98 and XP,
and is still present, so this is related to browser rather than OS.

Comment 3

[Alex Watson]

Attachment: screenshot of step 4

Comment 4

[Ben Fowler]

I doubt that it is a question of OS, but one of browser and server,
or browser and markup.

The test page you uploaded gives me this Javascript error:

Error: hideElement is not defined
Source File: http://www.zen24203.zen.co.uk/learnp/test2.html
Line: 1

The w3c validator gives no fewer than 184 errors.

Are you able to fix these errors and submit a further test case
which has the defect you note?

Comment 5

[Alex Watson]

Further files, edited a little, which are closer to equivalent to the site's,
are at http://www.zen24203.zen.co.uk/learnp2/ The bug occurs in test2.html as
before.

I'm afraid there's not much more I can do, as I know very very little
javascript, and the code seems in any case to be deliberately obfuscated to
prevent tampering (witness the contents of Presenter.js). Given this I can't
really create a test case at all - I've no idea what is causing the problems.

I'm sorry I can't be of much more help. As I've said, I don't know how much
point there is in pursuing this, given my lack of expertise and the complexity
of the original site.

Comment 6

[amilburn]

Attachment: descrambled Presenter.js

If anyone does want to look into this, the Presenter.js present on the site has
been scrambled to prevent casual view, the attached file contains the
descrambled javascript as taken from the DOM inspector, and includes
aforementioned 'hideElement' function. I don't personally know enough
javascript to be of any further help.

Comment 7

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Confirming, since there was a definite problem here at one point, but Alyssa, it would be of great help if you could let us know if this problem still exists. It looks like the site has been redesigned since this was filed.

Comment 8

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Unfortunately I've got no way to test if this site is still broken as described by the original reporter. Going to close as INVALID, but please reopen if you find it's still in need of TE.