309774 - Javascript issues with APPLET

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kary Forth]

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

I will leave a sample page up for a while at
http://server6.onlineproject.com/Tests/City2004/PadKLL2C.nsf/testing?OpenForm .

I am unable to get the applet using document.applets.

I can get the applet using document.getElementsByTagName('APPLET').
After doing so, however, I cannot get it's properties.  For example, outerHTML
comes back as undefined.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the webite provided in Firefox - DO NOT use IE.  The second alert will
crash IE.
2. On open, an IBM/Lotus applet will run.  Javascript will attempt to throw a
DIV around this applet.
3. The first alert you will see contains the outerHTML of the applet.
4. The second alert contains the outerHTML of the applet after attempting to add
a DIV around it.

To see this in IE (without the second alert - which causes a crash) go to
http://server6.onlineproject.com/Tests/City2004/PadKLL2C.nsf/testingIE?OpenForm
Actual Results:  
Java applet does not have DIV tags set & is unavailable.

Expected Results:  
Correctly set DIV tags around the applet.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Welcome to the frustrating world of cross-browser development. You'll find that
something like http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=25 is a much better
way to find out how to work with Firefox and Gecko - in bugzilla you'll mostly
just be told "INVALID" when you try to do something that shouldn't work.

ap = document.applets[0] and ap = document.applets['dominoActionBar'] will both
work, but we don't do the Microsoft-proprietary outerHTML (despite doing
innerHTML), so you'll need to do that another way.