65091 - microsoft.com - [Layers]pull-down menu does not show on mouseover

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P1)

Description

[Greg Parks]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010111
BuildID:    200010111

In the page at http://www.microsoft.com/, a pull-down menu should show up on a
mouseover when the user goes takes the mouse over the name.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.) Load www.microsoft.com and wait for the page to finish loading.
2.) No clicking necessary, just take the mouse and move it over the menus. (i.e.
All Products, Support, etc.)
I do not see the pull-down menu show up at all as I do on I.E.

Actual Results:  The mouse arrow on the screen changed from the slanted arrow to
the cursor icon as if I was about to click on a text input box to enter new text
from the keyboard.  (It looked like what happens when a user moves the mouse in
this entry box instead of outside of a entry box, such as what happens on this
page.) The pull-down menu does not appear and there is no indication that
mozilla recognizes the difference in the code.

Expected Results:  The slanted arrow should have stayed and not have changed to
a text input icon.  In addition, the pull-down menu should have appeared.

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

site used document.all, ie specific drek. over to evang!

Comment 2

[/\/\arcio Galli]

This is not affecting the user experience too much..
Also the menu is not working with N4.x.

Is this a case for evangelism? Anyway would be nice to have this page Standards
Compliant!!

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning evangelism bugs to [e-mail].

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

This is not a layer issue. Microsoft is presenting us with a downlevel browser
version of their home page that does not take advantage of the W3C DOM support. 

Contacting to ask for DOM support for Mozilla and Netscape 6 via web form at
http://register.microsoft.com/contactus30/feedback.asp?FU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emicrosoft%2Ecom%2F&RU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emicrosoft%2Ecom%2F&CU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emicrosoft%2Ecom%2F

Marking ASSIGNED to show contact has been made.

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

I have contacted Microsoft concerning these problems however due to external
factors it is clear that Evangelism is not an appropriate method of contacting
them concerning problems with their content.

Marking WONTFIX.

Comment 6

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

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

Comment 7

[Brant Gurganus]

Verified per instructions at http://mozilla-evangelism.bclary.com/evangelism.html

Comment 8

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 141482 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Phil Schwartau]

NOTE: you can try this javascript: URL after loading the site:

               javascript: alert(ToolBar_Supported)

                         IE6 --->  'true'
                         Moz --->  'false'


This shows the flag in MS's code that turns off the funtionality
of the toolbars in Mozilla/N6, I believe -

Comment 10

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

they serve us what they call a 'downlevel page' that does not use DHTML. They do
this throughout their site. I have discussed this with them and there is no plan
afaik to change their behavior.