58984 - javascript rarely renders rollovers in M18 (2000101015)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 32269

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect, P3)

Description

[kurth]

in m18 goto the above address and try to use the rollovers...its damn near
impossible....i have reproduces this bug on both linux and windows 2000 and
suspect that it is present on win98.

i can't describe how it dosen't do what it is suppoused to do....i'm not a
programmer...just a casual end user.....i hope that this helps a little bit

Comment 1

[Conor Lennon]

This page uses javascript like:

   image1 = new Image();
   image1.src = "http://www.usaexpress.net/images/menu/homeon.gif";

I think other browers load the image with this code, and won't mark the page as
being loaded until such images are downloaded.
Mozilla seems to not download the image until the image is required, and the
page will be marked as loaded before the these images are downloaded.

Comment 2

[Arjen Hommersom]

Confirming on linux build 20001102, Mandrake 7.2. The rollovers feel very slow
compared to Netscape 4.x.

Comment 3

[Phil Schwartau]

Confirming with Linux MN6 branch debug build 2000-11-02 9PM Pacific Time.
Note: the rollovers work fine on the WinNT build; so perhaps it's Linux-only.


On Linux, the rollover highlighting doesn't occur, and the images they are
supposed to highlight disappear! Soon the left side of the page is blank.


Not a JS Engine issue. Reassigning to pnunn because of similarity to 
bug 57860; please reassign as necessary, thanks -

Comment 4

[Phil Schwartau]

Setting default QA contact -

Comment 5

[Arjen Hommersom]

The images do disappear, but if you wait long enough the rollover images
sometimes appear. The strange thing is that it doesn't get any quicker if you
try it a second time, so i seems to have something to do with the switching of
the pictures rather than loading.

Comment 6

[pnunn]

This is a dupe of 32269.
Thanks for filing it. I will add this test url
to 35946. It gave me additional info on the problem.
-pn

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32269 ***

Comment 7

[Tom Everingham]

verified dup