272828 - terra.es - uses |movie.setVariable| instead of getElementById("movie").setVariable

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Spanish, defect)

Description

[Pablo Cancho Arnaiz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

When you try to access to the terra chat it finish but doesn't appear the chat
window. When you look to the javascript console you can see the following error:
Error: movie.setVariable is not a function
Archivo de origen: http://www.terra.es/chat/salas/sala_6_148.htm
Line: 194
I tried to reinstall java software again but doesn't work.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Sterling Bates]

IIRC, an element cannot be referenced by its ID globally.  The site should
perform a movie=document.getElementById("movie") first.

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

comment 1 is correct. The page in question was coded for IE, not for standarts.
Firefox doesn't support this quirk.

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

-> Tech Evangelism

Comment 4

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

*** Bug 346413 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.