273268 - tpis.com - unchecked document.layers

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Michael Niewoonder]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When attempting to browse TPIS online catalog, I cannot following the links. 
When clicking on a link the browsers takes no action at all.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse www.tpis.com.
2. Click on the online catalog button at top left of window.
3. Pick a link the on left side of the window (i.e., intake systems).
4. At this point I can't get any farther.  If I use IE version 6 I can follow
those links.

Actual Results:  
The browser stayed at the same location as the links.  Screen didn't change at all.

Expected Results:  
I should have been able to view the page at the link target location.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

It's failing because it has a worldview several years old, that anything
"Netscape" and >= version 4 would support document.layers. However, it's
surprisingly usable, once you notice that the little white oval that shouldn't
show, at the end of each "link", is actually a working submit button: click
those, and the rest seems to work.

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

FIXED. No more layers, and a sane browser sniffer:

http://www.tpis.com/javascript/browserdetect_lite.js