340472 - Form submission silently fails in Firefox; works in IE

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Darin Fisher]

Form submission silently fails in Firefox; works in IE

STEPS TO REPRO:
Click the Login button

EXPECTED RESULTS:
Error dialog (absolutely positioned content) is shown explaining that the username or password is invalid.

ACTUAL RESULTS:
Nothing happens.

Works fine in IE.  It looks like the site is designed using some kind of webapp framework, so its possible that this same problem exists on other sites that utilize the same framework.

Filing against HTML:Form Submission for starters.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

At first glance, I'd say JS Engine -> Tech Evang - they seem to be choking us (and Opera, and Safari, ...) with script of the form

function foo(){}
function foo.prototype.bar(){}

which in IE apparently actually works the same as 

function foo(){}
foo.prototype.bar = function(){}

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

-> JavaScript Engine for a decision.

Comment 3

[Erik Fabert]

We had at least one other report (bug 240928) where a page used |function window.onload() {}|. That bug was moved to TE, there seems to be very little demand for this JScript feature.

Comment 4

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

This is a non-ECMA, non-standard extension that only JScript implements AFAIK.  I say TE until it hurts too much, which is likely never.

/be

Comment 5

[Tom S. (please needinfo tschuster)]

This page now requires IE6/7