41329 - (netcenter)netscape home page missing left column

Status: CLOSED INVALID

(Core :: Networking, defect, P1)

Description

[buster]

1. open viewer or browser
2. bring up netscape home page
3. you might get an assertion, just continue past it.  I doubt it's related.
4. you'll only see the 2nd and 3rd column of the 3-column layout for this page.

Comment 1

[buster]

tested on several other machines, this happens on all platforms, for at least 
the last 2 days.  How did this get past daily smoke test?

I haven't had any time yet to narrow this down.

Chris Petersen:  it would be VERY helpful to know what day this last worked 
correctly.

Comment 2

[karnaze (gone)]

Attachment: simple test case

Comment 3

[Peter Trudelle]

[nsbeta2+]

Comment 4

[karnaze (gone)]

The problem is that 4.7 unlike 6.0 is redirecting index1.html to index.html. The 
pages are different.

Comment 5

[Gagan]

netcenter needs to fix this. 

Comment 6

[Tom Everingham]

talked with netcenter mngr, they are looking into this 

Comment 7

[Jim Roskind]

I thought that the plan was that in Nav 6, the far left column was going to be 
efficetly displaced by the sidebar.
Note that the far-left column starts with CNN news.  One of the standard sidebar 
pannels *is* CNN news.
There are a number of other subtle differences between the content served to 4.x 
vs 6, and I *think* these are "as planned".

IMO, this is probably not a bug... and should be marked INVALID unless someone 
speaks up RSN.

Comment 8

[Gagan]

Hmmm... Now that I see what the columns really are, I have to agree. However are
we ever going to make sure all the elements of the left column are available in
some form for the sidebar? It would seem to me that it could be a rather
frustrating experience for a user to not find (e.g. say) weather which otherwise
appears when he uses other versions. But then this may be a usability issue and
be beyond the scope of this bug. 

Closing this as invalid. 

Comment 9

[Tom Everingham]

actually that is what the netcenter person said - that he thought it was a 
design decision not to include that column and was checking into it.  Jar's 
comment confirms this so I will mark closed.

Comment 10

[R.K.Aa.]

A design decision to not include the top area as well? That's missing too,
removing links to chat/webmail/my/download.
Linux 2000-070420

Comment 11

[R.K.Aa.]

ahh my bad - they're moved further down the page in the mozilla-version of the
index page.