28957 - No scrolling text nor fixed background.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[Craig A. Lance]

View this site in Internet Explorer 5.0, then in Mozilla 5.0 and you'll see the
problem.

When the page is first loaded, text comes scrolling in from the sides in IE, but
not in Mozilla; in fact it doesn't display at all.  I don't know what exactly is
causing this problem, but it looks like it's in a JavaScript function.

Also, in IE the body tag has an attribute of bgproperties="fixed" which isn't
supported by Mozilla.  What it does is allows the background image to stay fixed
while the rest of the window scrolls with the scrollbars.

Comment 1

[Sean Richardson]

[e-mail], what build of Mozilla were you using? M13 or later
(the build ID appears at the right hand end of the status bar at the bottom of 
the browser window)? Thanks.

It appears that the animation of the page contents is done by a javascript
animation loaded from a separate file; the js code may or may not be 
standards-compliant (Mozilla only supports standatds-compliant code).
See http://sites.netscape.net/ekrock/answers.html#DOM and
http://sites.netscape.net/ekrock/answers.html#js

As for the moving background image, it ought to be possible to do this with
CSS, but there never has been a standard HTML BODY attribute of bgproperties
and there certainly is not in the HTML 4.01 spec,
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.5.1

In the future, please put only one issue in each bug report... see
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html ... Thanks again.

This will belong in one of the "DOM" components if it is not invalid due to
nonstandard js - trying "DOM Level 0".

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

The external script does indeed use document.all and as [e-mail] said
the fixed background is done in a non-standard way. Marking invalid.

Comment 3

[Prashant Desale]

Invalid Verified.