8023 - [META][LAYER] site bugs caused by Nav5 non-support for document.layers API

Status: CLOSED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, enhancement, P5)

Description

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

This is a meta bug for tracking purposes only.  It "depends" on
individual outstanding site bugs which break on Nav5 due to their use in
JavaScript of document.layers (and the fact that Nav5 doesn't support
document.layers) and is a way to track them to speed the contacting of site
owners to encourage upgrades to the W3C DOM.  Assign all such bugs which are
entered into Bugzilla to ekrock for outbound evangelism.

This meta bug is *not* for tracking bugs in which Gecko fails to lay out static
LAYER tags correctly.  Gecko *is* supposed to lay out LAYER tags on the HTML
page.  Assign those bugs to whoever's handling layout.

NOTE: This meta bug depends on individual document.layers usage bugs, not the
other way around!  If you wish use this meta bug to track an individual HTML
4.0 bug, either make this bug depend on the individual bug, or in the individual
bug, use this bug # in the "bugs which depend on this bug" field.

Comment 1

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

No longer going to use this META bug to track. Instead, such bugs should be
tagged with [LAYER] and then INVALIDed, making them searchable and retrievable.
INVALID.

Comment 2

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Moving all [LAYER] bugs to Evangelism component for tracking and open-source
evangelism by mozilla community members of sites that need to upgrade to support 
web standards such as HTML 4.0 (instead of LAYER/ILAYER) and the W3C DOM
(instead of Nav4 document.layers[] or IE document.all()). Sites should be
lobbied to do the upgrade using the email templates that are linked to from
http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/bugathon.html#layerbugs . When a site's owner
has confirmed receipt of the message requesting an upgrade, the bug should be
marked with the keyword evangelized to indicate that evangelism for that bug is
complete. When the site finishes the upgrade and supports standards, the bug
should be closed.

Comment 3

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Closing this META tracking bug as it's been rendered obsolete by the new 
Evangelism component and evangwanted/evangelized keywords. [LAYER] bugs should 
now be reassigned to the Evangelism component for open-source evangelism.

Comment 4

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

SPAM:Changing QA contact on 111 evang bugs as I am now the new QA contact for 
this component.

Sorry about the spam

zach

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning Evangelism bugs to me, the component's new owner.  I would like to 
take this opportunity to thank [e-mail] for all of his dedication, 
contributions, and hard work, and wish him luck at his new job.  Thanks, nobody.

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

workaround bugzilla problem that caused a bunch of evangelism bugs to be 
NEW/INVALID, NEW/FIXED, NEW/WORKSFORME or NEW/DUPLICATE

Comment 7

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

marking invalid. evang component should be used instead of this tracking 
bug.

Comment 8

[Blake Ross]

vrfy invalid

Comment 9

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Oh. Leme close this bug.

Comment 10

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

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