Closed Bug 66888 Opened 24 years ago Closed 21 years ago

assembler.org - Page fails to fully load

Categories

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

defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: nrussell, Assigned: bc)

References

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Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010127
BuildID:    2001012708

The page fails to load completely.  On one occasion, Windoze closed the browser
with an illegal operation error, but I reflexively clicked 'close' rather than
copying the debugging info Windoze gave me.  

Talkback was not triggered, however I am fairly certain I was running the
talkback build.  More typical behavior is a simple failure of the page to load
properly.  

Internet Exploiter loads the front page, and all pages accessible from it, in a
manner without obvious problems.  

Have not tried earlier versions or other operating systems; do not have access
to the later; will try seamonkey and post an 'additional comment' in any event
once this bug is submitted.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the linked site using the latest nightly build under Win98 SE with
1024x768x32 color graphics.  

Actual Results:  Page failed to load and on one occasion crashed.

Expected Results:  Load the page properly.

The page in question, BTW, could be quite ideal for debugging as it seems to
make use of a lot of custom DHTML.
Page in question does NOT load properly under Seamonkey (same graphics
settings).  However, responsiveness of other windows seemed better under
Seamonkey while the page was attempting to load.  
Assignee: asa → av
Component: Browser-General → Plug-ins
QA Contact: doronr → shrir
updating component
Wrong component (Plug-ins). I don't see any plugins on the page but rather some 
javascript. Over to javascript for investigation.
Assignee: av → rogerl
Component: Plug-ins → Javascript Engine
QA Contact: shrir → pschwartau
The error I discovered was not with the page itself, but with a java applet
loaded from the page to play the game.  I set it as plugins since Java is a
plugin.  Since I may be in error, I have not changed it back; feel free to do so
if appropriate.  
sending to OJI (java integration) AND reassigning ;-)
please triage
Assignee: rogerl → edburns
Severity: major → normal
Component: Javascript Engine → OJI
QA Contact: pschwartau → shrir
Summary: Page fails to fully load → Page fails to fully load (error with applet)
Actually, this looks like outdated HTML. The site uses outdated  
browser-sniffing code in http://www.assembler.org/XLAT/pop.html 


var n = (document.layers) ? 1:0
var ie = (document.all) ? 1:0


and then has functions like this:


function init() {
  redrawInit();
    for (i = 0; i <= boxes-1; i++) {
      setTimeout("gravity(" + i + ")",i*250);
    }
}

 
function redrawInit() {
// derived from Webmonkey CSS fix.  Modified for use on ASMBLR, Mar 15, 2000
 if (n) {
   document.ASMBLR = new Object;
   document.ASMBLR.redraw = new Object;
   document.ASMBLR.redraw.winWidth = window.innerWidth;
   document.ASMBLR.redraw.winHeight = window.innerHeight;
   window.onresize = redraw();
  }
}


Since NN4.7 supported layers, but Mozilla does not, this code never gets
executed on Mozilla. Reassigning to Evangelism component. 


See bug 50711 for more information on Web standards issues -
Assignee: edburns → evangelism
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: OJI → Evangelism
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: shrir → zach
Summary: Page fails to fully load (error with applet) → [LAYER]Page fails to fully load (error with applet)
Um...  sorry for my comment about a game.  When I posted that comment, I was
thinking this was another bug I submitted regarding troubles with Yahoo! games.
So can we close this bug?
Well, since this is evangelism right now, I am just adding some notes:

* It's not not difficult to update
----------------------------------

Basically the function shiftTo(obj, x, y) needs support to the Standards mode.
---------
For the N4.x code fork, the code is using document.object.moveTo(x,y).. for the
is_gecko code fork I recommend something more like:

document.getElementById(object).style.left=leftvalue+"px";
document.getElementById(object).style.top=topvalue+"px";

I also recommend to use the Ultimate Client Sniffer
---------
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/sniffer/browser_type.html

This way will be easy to evaluate is_gecko.

* Author information is in the code
-------------------------------------
view-source to contact.
Reassigning evangelism bugs to bclary@netscape.com.
Assignee: evangelism → bclary
Priority: -- → P3
Summary: [LAYER]Page fails to fully load (error with applet) → assembler.org - [LAYER]Page fails to fully load (error with applet)
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
site seems down today (blank html page delivered)
fixed!

http://www.assembler.org/XLAT/pop.html now has w3c dom support
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
It doesn't seem to work correctly.  Teh bouncing cubes make it window bounce as
well.  Opened page in a tab.  Also, other programs become very slugish.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED → ---
Supports DOM now. Works for me.
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago21 years ago
OS: Windows 98 → All
Hardware: PC → All
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Summary: assembler.org - [LAYER]Page fails to fully load (error with applet) → assembler.org - Page fails to fully load
v
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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