436281 - policia.es - Non-functional menus in National Spanish Police webpage, overlapping ticker, etc.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Spanish, defect)

Description

[Toni Hermoso Pulido]

In Menu DNI:

- Documentación necesaria
- Tasas

are not accessible using neither Firefox 2 (tested in Windows) nor Firefox 3 (tested in Linux)

It does work in Internet Explorer.

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Yeah, that's a nasty bunch of code in there. Toni, please contact them with a standard evangelism letter:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#contacting

It doesn't work at all in Firefox 2 on Mac (the main content below the menu bar doesn't load) but Camino trunk seems to have the same behaviour as comment 0.

Safari refuses to show the page at all unless a "www." is prepended to the address. It eventually loads everything and breaks in an even more dramatic manner than Firefox ;) -- the menu items are all located below the bar at the far left side of the page with no CSS styles applied to them at all.

http://www.policia.es/construc.js

is the Javascript responsible for most of this, and it looks like the script is making some rather questionable assumptions about what browsers exist out there and what specific features those browsers have in common.

I'm also a huge fan of this comment:

//In theory we should use object detection, but this script needs work-arounds for almost every browser...

They're worried about customers using Netscape 4, but they can't be bothered to make a modern browser work correctly? That's hilarious.

Comment 2

[Toni Hermoso Pulido]

I have contacted them with no response. I Cc ro Spanish comps, so they can try to contact them if they want.

Comment 3

[Rubén Martín [:Nukeador] ❌ [away till Aug 31st]]

I think the problem is no longer present, I can't find the DNI menu.

Comment 4

[Toni Hermoso Pulido]

They published a new website.