81305 - orange.net - content (portal) services servers <layer> to pages

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Max Spicer]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505
BuildID:    2001050515

On http://www.orange.net a navigation bar is displayed down the left-hand side
of the page.  This contains links which have a square bullet drawn beside them
as the mouse is hovered over them.  I suspect that this is done with Java, but
haven't been able to verify this.

In IE5.5 and Netscape 4, this works as expected.  However, with Mozilla all I
get is a black box in the space where the navigation links would normally be
placed.  I do have the Java plugin installed.

I suspect that this may be an evangelisation issue, but haven't been able to
narrow things down, for which I apologise.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.orange.net with Mozilla and IE5.5 or Netscape 4
2. Observe the differences

Actual Results:  In Mozilla nothing but a black box is displayed on the left
hand side of the screen.  With IE5.5 or Netscape 4 a box of navigation links is
displayed.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should have done the same as IE5.5/Netscape 4.

Comment 1

[Jacob Kjome]

this is probably related to transparent gifs loading black rather than 
transparent.  that is bug 78733.  In fact, this may be a dup.

Jake

Comment 2

[Max Spicer]

I don't believe that this is an image bug.  There is no evidence that the
navigation area is an image.  Right clicking on the black box does not display
any of the normal View Image menus.

Comment 3

[Andreas M. "Clarence" Schneider]

This is the black area (background is set to black by outer <td>):

<td colspan="3"><img src="/portal/myOrange/images/clear.gif" width="1"
height="620" border="0">
 <!-- START: LEFT NAV -->
 <!-- hi :) -->
 <!-- END: LEFT NAV -->
</td>

Content is generated by
http://www.orange.net/portal/myOrange/includes/navigation_thirteen.js and that
serves us <layer>.

-> Evangelism

(BTW, the image is probably affected by bug 78733, but background is black
anyway).

Comment 4

[Peter Lockhart]

Can't reproduce with moz 0.9, win2k 2001050515

Reporter: are you sure you have javascript enabled in preferences ?
This isnt an image bug. that menu is created with javascript loaded inline from
http://www.orange.net/portal/myOrange/includes/navigation_fourteen.js

Comment 5

[Max Spicer]

I can confirm that this now works in Mozilla 0.9 (2001050515) on Win98SE and
also in yesterday's nightly build.  I definitely had JavaScript on before, so
can only guess that Orange have changed the page.  Does it still use LAYER and
did someone evangelise them?  (I don't know how this evangelism bit is meant to
work.)  Either way, I suggest that this issue is now resolved as fixed.

Comment 6

[Andreas M. "Clarence" Schneider]

WORKSFORME now. Content is now generated by
http://www.orange.net/portal/myOrange/includes/navigation_fourteen.js ,
which is *much* better than the previous
http://www.orange.net/portal/myOrange/includes/navigation_thirteen.js .

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

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

Comment 8

[Brant Gurganus]

Verified
2002040608/WinXP