34587 - Javascript Reload of Frames Misbehaves

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Images, Video, and HTML Frames, defect, P3)

Description

[sterno]

I am working on a site which uses JavaScript to force the reload of a frame.
The technique I'm using works fine under older versions of Netscape and IE, but
not under the Netscape Beta.  Here's the code in question:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript>
  parent.frames['side'].document.location=parent.frames['side'].document.locatio
n;
</SCRIPT>

Basically the intention of this is to force the refresh of a navigation frame
once a user is logged in (to provide additional options, etc).  When I load the
page under Mozilla it has two effects:

1) Mozilla loads the content of the log-in page (the one containing the code)
into both the main frame and the navigation frame that I wanted to reload.
2) The navigation frame continuously reloads itself (because it keeps calling
the javascript reload on itself).

I suspect that the problem has something to do with the way frames are
functioning but I'm not certain.

Comment 1

[Alan S. Jones]

not sure if this is a dupe or just related to 18321

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

[e-mail] - are you still seeing this problem with recent builds of 
Mozilla? Reloading of individual frames is not supported - bug 31578.

Gerv

Comment 3

[Eric Pollmann]

This may be related to bug 18501.  Setting window.location doesn't work in some 
cases for frames.  I haven't pinned it down yet.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

[e-mail] - this may well be fixed by now. Seeing as you haven't 
provided a test case, can you check if it is, and comment in this bug? Thanks.

Gerv

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

resolving worksforme for now.  [e-mail] (sterno) please reopen if 
this is still a problem with a recent build

Comment 6

[Chris Petersen]

Marking verified works for me.