308786 - digg.com - in Camino, the "digg" story buttons cause page to reload instead of animate as in Firefox

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Steve]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050914 Camino/1.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050914 Camino/1.0a1

In Safari a digg button fades from blue text saying "digg it" to gray text
saying "dugg!" when you are logged in and click one. In Camino (0.8.4 and 1.0a1)
when a digg button is clicked the page reloads back to the top as if it were
loading it for the first time. The text changes from "digg it" to "dugg!" like
it is supposed to but the transition between the two doesn't happen. After
hunting through Digg's JavaScript files the animation is in the
http://digg.com/js/xmlhttp.js file. It looks like the culprit is the
submitform##.submit() function called when the button is pressed. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create digg user account.
2. Log into digg.com (free registration).
3. Click a "digg it" link.

Actual Results:  
The page reloads on pressing a "digg it" button as if it were loading the page
for the first time.

Expected Results:  
Clicking the "digg it" button should send an XML-HTTP request to the Digg server
and perform an animation without fully reloading the page.

Comment 1

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

i assume this is either expected, tech evangelism, or a core issue. nothing to
do with camino.

Comment 2

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

What happens in Firefox 1.5b1?

Comment 3

[S. Elliott]

This does seem to effect only Camino - in Firefox Beta 1 on Mac, it works
without refreshing the page as it does in Safari, as it does on every Windows
browser tested too.  The only browser that refreshes the page is Camino.

Comment 4

[Jamie Diamond]

Reproduced under 2005101304 (1.0a1+) and 10.4.2.
Same problem as reporter describes. Also have heard other reports in chat rooms of same problem being reproduced.

Comment 5

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

There are reports in the mZ forum that the site works properly with the user-agent set to Firefox.

Could someone with a digg.com account confirm that setting 
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051024 Firefox/1.5");
in your user.js and then starting Camino and visiting the site causes everything to work properly?

If so, then this bug belongs in Tech Evangelism (and likely the site is doing bad browser-sniffing).

Comment 6

[Brutal]

I can confirm that you can fix this by spoofing the user-agent. I've been doing this for quite some tim now.

Comment 7

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

Thanks for the confirmation that spoofing works/it's bad browser-sniffing on the site causing the problem.

-> Tech Evangelism; however, interested parties should still contact the site and suggest they treat Camino the same as Firefox

Comment 8

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

*** Bug 327214 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Fixed per two correspondents (one on MZ forum, one via feedback).

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