596238 - undefined method error on united.com checkin page when checking is as non-US resident

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 593807

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Getting a lot of these error messages:

11:34:36.843: Exception: doAutoPreselect is not defined Source File: https://travel.united.com/eco/webcheckin/altSearch.do Line: 1, Column: 0 Category: content javascript

11:36:33.087: Exception: getNonUSNationalInfo is not defined Source File: https://travel.united.com/eco/webcheckin/altSearch.do Line: 1, Column: 0 Category: content javascript

Turning off methodjit doesn't help, but the scripts do work on Firefox 3.6. No finer regression window available at this time.

STR:
1. Check in for a United flight
2. Indicate that your passport isn't from the USA

Expected: a new DIV to appear asking for your contact information when in the USA
Actual: DIV doesn't appear (error appears in Web Console) and the form won't validate

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

It's actually an HTML issue, not a JS one, and one where following the HTML5 spec breaks the site.  Henri is working on maybe getting the spec changed to not do that in this case...