868298 - Unable to load image/video content when performing search on bing.com

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect, P1)

Description

[bhavana bajaj [:bajaj]]

STR :
1)Open a new tab and go to www.bing.com
2)Type a search term and tap Search. (for e.g. "mozilla") 
3)You should be seeing content load with three tab's "web" "images" "video"
4)Click on images/videos

Expected Result :
You should be able to view images/Video content

Actual Result :
There is absolutely no content shown on those tabs

Device tested : Samsung galaxy s3 & s4 on Fx Release : 20.0.1 and Fx 21.0b5
Device details : Samsung S3
Model : GT -I9300
Android version: 4.1.2

Tried to run similar STR  on Chrome was getting content as expected.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Reproducible on desktop with the mobile user-agent. Over to Tech Evangelism.

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Attachment: Bing Image/Video Search - Screenshot

This looks eerily similar to bug 766964.

Comment 3

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

FirefoxOS UA gets desktop site (which is possibly not good) and this works fine (which is, I guess). Firefox Android UA still gets missing content.

Comment 6

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Is Microsoft aware of these issues using that using Bing in Firefox for Android is rather abysmal?

Comment 7

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

So, loading this URL:
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=cats&FORM=HDRSC3
is supposed to cause another request for this URL to get the actual search results:
http://www.bing.com/m/videos/search?mobile=1&q=cats%20filterui:playable_html5&first=0&count=20&IG=ac887a2bfa9a4bdea8db1ec9df80e8f0&IID=video.1&SFX=1

The second request never happens in Firefox on Android. The underlying reason is an exception that happens because they expect document.styleSheets[n].rules to be a collection (the standards-compliant property is of course document.styleSheets[n].cssRules). Fixing this code makes both video and image search work:

		function r(n){ 
			for(var u="rules",t,i,r=0;r<_d.styleSheets.length;r++)
				if(t=_d.styleSheets[r][u],t)
					for(i=0;i<t.length;i++)
						if(t[i].selectorText===n)
							return t[i];return null}

Comment 8

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

Reached out through site's feedback feature and on Twitter

Comment 12

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

(In reply to Hallvord R. M. Steen from comment #7)

> The second request never happens in Firefox on Android. The underlying
> reason is an exception that happens because they expect
> document.styleSheets[n].rules to be a collection (the standards-compliant
> property is of course document.styleSheets[n].cssRules). Fixing this code
> makes both video and image search work

Is this the only option? It's not clear to me whether Bing's code is actually broken, or how we display the information is different to how others do it. ie why does Chrome and Safari work? 

I'm trying to see if we have another approach to follow other than Bing changing the way they handle a Mozilla search request, because this type of evangelism bug will take a while to get prioritized and fixed. I'm looking for options.

Comment 13

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

(In reply to Karen Rudnitski [:kar] from comment #12)

> It's not clear to me whether Bing's code is
> actually broken, or how we display the information is different to how
> others do it. ie why does Chrome and Safari work? 

The reason this works in Chrome and Safari (and other WebKit) browsers is because they've implemented the non-standard IE way of accessing a CSSRuleList via the .rules property. Firefox implements the .cssRules property (per spec). Note that WebKit browsers _also_ implement the standard property.

Comment 14

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

And fwiw, http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto2.12/dom2/css/ cssRules in Presto.

Comment 15

[Joanne Nagel]

I am working through business channels to identify a resource on the Bing mobile team to assist with this issue.  Will follow-up once I have a response.  Thanks, Joanne

Comment 16

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

This works for me as of today (December 19th).