49006 - quantum.com - [LAYER]links not working in javascript-controlled layers

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P3)

Description

[Lee Sam]

When mousing over any of the categories on the left (such as "products") a layer
is changed from visibility=hidden to visible. In that layer, there are several
images or an imagemap (not sure - I think a client-side imagemap), that have
links to individual product sections. Mozilla is not seeing those links
properly, and upon clicking on any of the sub-categories, nothing happens.
Mozilla thinks that the link is # rather than the HTML-defined address.

This problem is repeatable. Mozilla M17 Build 2000080712.

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

Using Mozilla tip builds 2000-08-15  11AM Pacific Time on WinNT, Linux.
Verified reported behavior on both OS. Changing OS to "All".

Not an engine issue; reassigning to DOM Level 0 for further triage -

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Looks like a bug for joki, reassigning and confirming.

Comment 3

[Jussi Haro]

This has been present for a number of Milestones now and is a 
cross-platform issue I've replicated on Mac, Win NT and Linux. I'd change 
the platform from PC to ALL  if I could.

Based on my testing, if there's multiple layers on a page and their 
visibility is changed dynamically, the client side image maps on a layer 
only work in the layer that was specified the last in the HTML code.

The link is present on the other layers (mouse pointer changes) but 
clicking on the link doesn't start the clicking event at all - no Javascript 
onClick is activated and no link is followed.

Comment 4

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

The page is equally broken in IE5. There is special functionality for NN 
(through layer tags), but Mozilla does not support layers nor is it intended to 
do so.

I added the [LAYER] indicator in the Summary field and added evangwanted 
keyword. The evangelist should contact Quantum and have them update their site 
to get rid of layers. Note that the page is fully functional only in NN 
supporting the layer tag.

Handing over to ekrock to find the evangelist...

Comment 5

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Reassigning to Blake for evangelism.

Comment 6

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Changing QA contact to [e-mail].

Comment 7

[Jussi Haro]

Nope, the above comment about NN specificity is not correct. The bug is 
present in pages created specifically Mozilla in mind, using the DIV tag. 
Check out http://www.thefeature.com/navi_html.jsp. The page uses DIV's 
with Mozilla and gets the pointer to them with document.getElementById.

What's the proper term for the "layer" DIV mechanism? The standards 
docs are more than cryptic and I have no clue whatsoever as to what to 
call them other than "layers".

Comment 8

[Blake Ross]

-> [e-mail] for my evangelism bugs.

removing the now-depreciated evangelism-related keywords.

setting platform to All.

Comment 9

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning evangelism bugs to [e-mail].

Comment 10

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.

Comment 11

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

fixed. menus work fine

Comment 12

[Brant Gurganus]

Verified
2002022703/WinXP