296176 - popup travel date calendar pops up and does not disappear after selecting travel date

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[massimo1]

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

www.olympicairlines.com is an airline reservation site. When you choose travel
dates, a calendar pops up. Initially, the calendar popup appears correctly OVER
the browser page. But it doesn't disappear once the date is chosen. It remains
open, which it should not. Then, because it is still open, when you go to choose
a 2nd date for alternate or return travel dates, the calendar popup it is hidden
by the browser. What should happen is that each time a date is clicked on as the
selection, the calendar popup should vanish, then be reopened on top of the
browser when looking for other travel dates.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to www.olympicairlines.com and select a roundtrip.
2. put in cities and click on 1st travel date field. Popup will open butn not
close as it should after choosing date from the calendar.
3. click on 2nd date field . You will not see the calendar popup unless you move
the browser window aside.

Actual Results:  
Browser had to be moved aside to see the calendar popup.

Expected Results:  
The popup is expected to close once a date in it is selected.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Aaron Sloman]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
> bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
> highly unlikely to be the source of a fix to the code.
 
By chance I decided to report exactly this bug detected on the UK national rail
enquiry site, which recently changed its format.
   http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/

Click on the calendar icon for outbound or return date. The buttons for changing
month don't work and neither does selecting a date have the expected effect.

My initial reaction was that this was another site with windows-only javascript,
so I decided to write to them and complain. But as a precaution I thought I
should check with mozilla (version 1.8b2). Imagine my surprise when the date
selection mechanism *worked*. It allows you to go back or forward a year or a
month, and selecting a date makes the panel disappear with the appropriate date
in the date field.

I had met this sort of failure in date selection previously on airline sites and
just assumed it was a buggy web site tested only on windows and IE. But now it
looks to me as if this is definitely a firefox bug, if the site works with mozilla.

I decided to try the url mentioned by the original reporter:
   www.olympicairlines.com
I found that it brought up the date selection popup (when I allowed popups from
the site), but as soon as I selected a date the tab I was using disappeared.
Again, the date selection popup works in mozilla but not in firefox, though the
symptom is different.

I am using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050921
Firefox/1.6a1

I also tried an earlier version.

To me this looks quite serious. If people are not supporting this report it may
be (a) because they think it's just another buggy web site tested only in
Windows (which was my initial reaction) and (b) because it is not easy to find
this bug report when searching. I did not recognize it at first because I was
looking for a bug concerned with the month not changing on the calendar. Only
after I found this report did I discover that it was the same or a closely
related bug (presumably in the javascript interpreter???)

Sorry I can't help at the code level.
Aaron

Comment 3

[Mark Annand]

Firefox 1.5 Beta 2

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006
Firefox/1.4.1

Date selection on http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ journey planner works ... but
there's a time selection dropdown button too, and that doesn't respond.

Comment 4

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Both the links in this bug WFM using Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Mac OS X and Windows XP with a clean profile.

Do either of you see this bug still?

Comment 5

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Closing this bug as WORKSFORME, per comment 4.

Comment 6

[Aaron Sloman]

(In reply to comment #2)

I wrote:

> By chance I decided to report exactly this bug detected on the UK national rail
> enquiry site, which recently changed its format.
>    http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/
> 
> Click on the calendar icon for outbound or return date. The buttons for changing
> month don't work and neither does selecting a date have the expected effect.

I have just tried this again (16 May 2007) using Firefox (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3) and it all works perfectly on the above site.

So either there was a bug on the web site that has been fixed, or else Firefox has had a bug fixed. Either way, the bug I reported no longer exists.

My thanks to whoever was responsible!
Aaron