69286 - agdayta.com - Layered Page Rendered Improperly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Brian Z]

In the recent builds the main page at agdayta.com is being rendered improperly.
 I think it has something to do with the layers, but I'm not for sure.  I'm
afraid I'm not a good layer programmer. :)  Thanks!

Comment 1

[Oliver Klee]

Layers are not supported by Mozilla. Absolute positioning with CSS should be
used instead. Confirming and over to Evangelism (and default owner of Evangelism).

Brian, please read the Bug Reporting Guidelines at
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html and considers using
Bugzilla Helper at http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/bugzilla-helper.html to
report bugs. Thanks for using Mozilla and reporting bugs!

Comment 2

[Oliver Klee]

Forgot to update to default QA for Evangelism.

Comment 3

[Brian Z]

I don't believe the page code was changed, but I believe this worked with
earlier Mozilla builds.  I'll have to downgrade to an older build and give it a try.

Comment 4

[Brian Z]

My fault.  It doesn't work in older builds either. :)  Sorry bout that.  I'll
have to have a little conversation with the page maker.  That's pathetic, using
layers on a content site selling services.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Brian, could we keep this open?  Mark it fixed once you have had that
conversation and the site has been fixed to use the W3C DOM and CSS?

Comment 6

[Brian Z]

I just happened to load the page using Netscape 6, and everything was rendered
correctly.  Wonder where exactly in the line layer rendering quit working. 
Nominating mozilla0.9 & nsbeta1.

Comment 7

[Brian Z]

severity bump-up to major.  This worked in Netscape 6 so developers are writing
sites this way.  They will have to re-write sites to work with Netscape 6.5 or
7, and I don't believe this is our goal.

Comment 8

[Brian Z]

update summary

Comment 9

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

is this really supported in Netscape 6.0 and not current builds? adding arun in
case he cares.

Comment 10

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

This is a Server side Browser detection problem.

If you look at the source when using a recent Mozilla build (2001042108/win2k)
for example, you will see HTML with layers, commented out javascript, etc. But
if you look at the source using NS6 you will see HTML without layers, with
javascript that uses getElementById and getElementsByTagName, etc.

So, the server is sniffing for Netscape6 and not Mozilla and is therefore
incorrectly serving up Navigator 4 HTML to Mozilla.

Comment 11

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning evangelism bugs to [e-mail].

Comment 12

[Brian Z]

sounds like this one has been resolved?

Comment 13

[Brian Z]

marking as resolved invalid.

Comment 14

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

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

Comment 15

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Site no longer serves layers to Mozilla but is using dw 3 MM_findObj

Comment 16

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

Why was this bug reopened ? Mozilla and IE render the site identically and there
is no real JS problem. The MM_findObj function defined in the header are not
used in the page. I think that the bug should be closed.

Comment 17

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

Works for me