295234 - brinkster.net - DHTML not existent, and various formatting stuff such as not centered objects/elements

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Paris Charilaou]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

At the very top, there should be a DHTML text that flies over and sits at the
top above the buttons, as the title. Also at the bottom, between the counter
line and the ip-detection line there is an extra linebreak - it shouldnt be
there. Also the flash movie in middle should be in the center of the table cell,
not in left-justified. Below the marquee on the left there should be a link
"Bookmark Us" - it's not there! That link is a <span> element FYI. Furthermore,
above the marquee there should be also another DHTML text that flies over onload
and sits there.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just go to the url I mentioned.

Actual Results:  
See Details.

Expected Results:  
check that with IE. It displays correctly. Also see details above.

Comment 1

[PikeUK]

From http://doecy.brinkster.net/animate.js:

var ms = navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE")
ie4 = (ms>0) && (parseInt(navigator.appVersion.substring(ms+5, ms+6)) >= 4)
if(!ie4)
{
  if((navigator.appName == "Netscape") &&
     (parseInt(navigator.appVersion.substring(0, 1)) >= 4))
    doc_els=document.layers
  else
    return
}
else
  doc_els=document.all

This sets doc_els to undefined which causes an error later on.

->Tech Evangelism

Comment 2

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050517
Firefox/1.0+

One bug per report, pleaase.

The demographic of web users who are interested in any of: text that flies,
text that sits, counter lines, IP-detection lines, extra linebreaks, flash 
movies, centres of table cells, marquees, 'Bookmark Us' and flies over 
onload is quite small. In combination, probably limited to the author's 
mother.

I think that there was a Java applet as well.

I saw what I expected, and I would think that the appearance is 'by design'

Comment 3

[Paris Charilaou]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050517
> Firefox/1.0+
> 
> One bug per report, pleaase.
> 
> The demographic of web users who are interested in any of: text that flies,
> text that sits, counter lines, IP-detection lines, extra linebreaks, flash 
> movies, centres of table cells, marquees, 'Bookmark Us' and flies over 
> onload is quite small. In combination, probably limited to the author's 
> mother.
> 
> I think that there was a Java applet as well.
> 
> I saw what I expected, and I would think that the appearance is 'by design'
> 
> 

So what do you suggest to do? Which tags does firefox support...the "bookmark"
thingie is with <span> for example. Are there alternatives.?  I would like to
know whether there is a list with the differences in behaviour of IE and Firefox
with different html tags.

Comment 4

[PikeUK]

(In reply to comment #0)
> At the very top, there should be a DHTML text that flies over and sits at the
> top above the buttons, as the title.

See comment #1.

> Also at the bottom, between the counter
> line and the ip-detection line there is an extra linebreak - it shouldnt be
> there.

You're relying on the fact that IE supresses outer margins when a p is nested in
a td, Firefox doesn't do that in standards mode. Changing from <p
align="center"> to <p align="center" style="margin-top: 0"> would fix that.

> Also the flash movie in middle should be in the center of the table cell,
> not in left-justified.

Try changing the parent of the embed from <p align="center"> to <div
align="center">.

> Below the marquee on the left there should be a link
> "Bookmark Us" - it's not there! That link is a <span> element FYI.

The code on your page tells it not to be there unless the browser is IE4+:

if ((navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE") > 0)
    && (parseInt(navigator.appVersion) >= 4)) {

> Furthermore,
> above the marquee there should be also another DHTML text that flies over onload
> and sits there.

See comment #1.

Comment 5

[Daniel.S]

Think this can be closed since the site is "temporarily unavailable" way longer that "temporarily" now...