Closed Bug 58652 Opened 24 years ago Closed 23 years ago

quickandreilly.com Quick and Reilly page unusable because of missing navigation bar

Categories

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

Product:
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
Component:
English US
Platform:
All
Windows NT
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 54928

People

(Reporter: buster, Assigned: bc)

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the problem page saved from IE 5.0
22.13 KB, text/html
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the same page, saved from NS6
22.13 KB, text/html
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using debug branch build, 10/31/00, WinNT
go to http://www.quickandreilly.com/    you will need an account, or maybe
ekrock can work with them to get a test account
this will bring you to https://www.quickandreilly.com/cgi-bin/login
This is a frameset document.  The top portion of the page is:
  https://www.quickandreilly.com/Navigation/topMenu.html
This page is broken.  The top portion is ok, but the lower portion should be
displaying a toolbar and it is not.  Instead, it is displaying javascript from
the document source invisibly (white text on white background, use selection to
see it.)
Could this be related to the javascript that shows up on the kodak page because
of an unclosed script tag?

    
    

    
  


  

    
    

    
  
see the two test cases just attached.  they appear identical in NS6.
The first one is the source of the top frame saved from IE.  The second is the
same URL saved from NS6.  The one saved from NS6 is truncated at the point where
the problem seems to be, don't know why.  NS6 does not load *either* test case
correctly.

    
    

    
  
if you remove onLoad="showMenu('homemenu');" from <BODY> in the first test case,
then the pages looks broken in IE the same way it does in NS6.

    
    

    
  
Note: If you take the reduced testcase, and make the body text color black 
(rather than white), then IE shows the identical page.

    
    

    
  
Note: In NS6, trying to load the nav-bar images individually returns the 
following server error:

"The connection was refused when attempting to contact www.quick&reilly.com"

With this, and the prev note (that IE displays the same page given this 
testcase), it's back to the drawing board on this bug. I don't have enough to go 
on.


    
    

    
  
Buster: let's get together on this tomorrow, so I can use your password.

    
    

    
  
Buster and I played awhile with this and here's our conclusion:

The *real* problem is that the page includes JS that sniffs for user-agent. It 
differentiates NS4 from IE, and plays CSS tricks to show/hide tables that 
contain the actual menu items. Oddly, this page would be better served in all 
cases if it avoided NS and IE propritary extensions.

Here's the actual JS for the show() method, followed by the patch that makes 
this work in both cases:

function show(id) { 
ie4 = true; 
if (ns4) document.layers['menubox'].layers[id].visibility = "show" 
else if (ie4) document.all[id].style.visibility = "visible" 
} 

Here's the fix: 

function show(id) { 
if(ns4)document.layers['menubox'].layers[id].visibility = "show" 
else document.getElementById(id).visibility="visible";
} 

Over to EKrock for evangelism.



Assignee: rickg → ekrock
Whiteboard: Evangelism, please.

    
    

    
  
making the appropriate annotations to set off evang alarms.
Assignee: ekrock → blakeross
Component: Parser → Evangelism
Keywords: evangwanted
QA Contact: janc → zach

    
    

    
  
-> evangelism@telocity.com for my evangelism bugs.

removing the now-depreciated evangelism-related keywords.

setting platform to All.
Assignee: blakeross → evangelism
Keywords: evangwanted
Hardware: PC → All

    
    

    
  
Assigning to Netscape Technology Evangelim team. For further info, send mail to
devsupport@netscape.com.

    
    

    
  
Reassigning evangelism bugs to bclary@netscape.com.
Assignee: evangelism → bclary

    
  
Summary: Quick and Reilly page unusable because of missing navigation bar → quickandreilly.com Quick and Reilly page unusable because of missing navigation bar
Whiteboard: Evangelism, please.

    
    

    
  
duping against pure evang bug against site

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 54928 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE

    
    

    
  
All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.
Component: Evangelism → US English
Product: Browser → Tech Evangelism
Version: other → unspecified

    
    

    
  
verif
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard

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