549126 - Accessibility and security problem - download page requires javascript

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(www.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Thunderbird, defect)

Description

[lars noodén]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
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The download page will not work with javascript turned off.
That presents obvious accessibility and security problems.
For some it may be fine that javascript is used to "enhance" certain pages.
However, the basic services should be able to function with normal XHTML without Javascript

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to web site with javascript turned off
2. 
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/download/?product=thunderbird-3.0.2&os=osx&lang=en-US
3.
Actual Results:  
The download link is useless with javascript turned off.  

Expected Results:  
The link should start the download regardless of whether or not javascript is enabled.  

What is the rationale for using js at all there?  The same result can probably be had without it.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

I do get barely readable grey links for each platform, but as you say they don't actually do anything. Obviously they could be made to work because if you follow the "other systems and languages" link to http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/all.html that page works fine w/out javascript.

Comment 2

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

mozillamessaging.com has been merged to mozilla.org several years ago.