79394 - javascript on this page doesn't work

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[B.J. Brown]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 i686; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505
BuildID:    2001050521

The dynamic content on this site doesn't work in Mozilla.  There should be a
series of headlines that rotate through the main section.  Also when you move
the mouse over "Le Journal" in upper left corner, a list of sections should
appear.  Next to "Le Soir en Ligne" logo, there is an applet which should
display a rotating list of headlines, but doesn't.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Browse to page.

Actual Results:  Dynamic components/javascript doesn't work--dynamic menus don't
pop up and headlines don't change

Expected Results:  headlines should rotate through main section, moving mouse of
"Le Journal" should cause list of sections to appear

This may well be bad page design, in which case it's probably really an
evangelism bug.

It has been a persistent problem in all mozilla releases since about M17 (before
which mozilla didn't render the page reliably at all)

Comment 1

[Gilles Durys]

Bad detection of browser caused by this:

if ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Netscape6')>=0) || (document.all)) {
var getid = true

Everything else in the script looks like
if (getid) {
do stuff for explorer or Netscape 6
} else {
do stuff for everything else wrongly including Mozilla
}

Comment 2

[Gilles Durys]

I sent a mail to the webmaster defining the problem and including a solution.

Comment 3

[Fabian Guisset]

being from belgium I know how this sucks..
Also I looked at their code and they have started to make room for NS6 coding,
but obviously they didn't finish it (yet?)

Comment 4

[Fabian Guisset]

Looks like lesoir redesigned their front-end, and all the menus work now! whee!
Someone wants to verify that this is fixed?

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

It indeed is fixed.  Fabian, now *you* can VERIFY FIXED.

Comment 6

[Gilles Durys]

vfry
They now detect correctly Mozilla

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

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