89840 - FlipDog.com doesn't support Mozilla / Netscape 6

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P3)

Description

[Andriy Palamarchuk]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628
BuildID:    2001062823

Part of the page is not displayed completely.
The page contains a lot of javascript, uses layers.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.flipdog.com
2. Go to "Find Jobs" page.

Actual Results:  Most part of the page is empty

Expected Results:  US map should be displayed.

Tha page works in Netscape Communicator 4.76 for Linux.

Comment 1

[Ariel Gonzalez]

NEWing with build 2001-06-28-15. Tried it with Javascript on and off with the
same effect.

Comment 2

[Ariel Gonzalez]

Sigh, sorry, just woke up. I'm using Win2k-SP1, so changing OS to ALL.

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

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

Comment 4

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

Old summary:
"flipdoc.com - "Find Jobs" page on flipdog.com is not completely displayed"

New summary:
"Flipdog.com doesn't support Mozilla / Netscape 6"

Platform -> All.

Also, their front page (http://www.flipdog.com) now reads:
"*** NOTICE ***
This site contains programming that requires a different version of your
Netscape browser. FlipDog.com currently supports only Netscape 4 (versions 4.07
and greater)."

Of course, in purely mathematical terms, 6.1 *is* greater than 4.07. But, I
suppose it would be more wordy for them to say "this site only supports Netscape
versions 4.07 through 4.78" ;).

Comment 5

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

MM* functions, dreamweaver

Comment 6

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Mass reassign of all tech-evangelism us general bugs assigned to bc to 
doron except bc's P1 bugs. You may search for this mass reassign (it is 
305 bugs) by searching for the keyword 'greeneggsandham'

Comment 7

[Markus Långström]

*** Bug 113904 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Markus Långström]

*** Bug 124766 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Markus Långström]

*** Bug 140786 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[cooperg]

I would like to note that flipdog.com has a "Tell us what you think!" link at the 
bottom of their main page. It might behoove us to send in one or two (a.k.a. a lot
of) messages to them reminding them of the presence of Moz and NS6+ customers.. 
especially if they have faulty javascripts on their site (as opposed to the 
unlikely? event that Moz's JS compatibility is at fault).

Comment 11

[Dave Lowe]

I sent feedback to FlipDog.com specifying that their site did not work with Netscape 6.2 nor 
Mozilla, and this was their reply--looks like game over for this bug#:

Thank you for submitting 
feedback to FlipDog.com, the easiest and most
effective online recruiting resource for 
employers and job seekers.
Unfortunately we do not support the Netscape 6x 
platform.


Sincerely,

Your friends at FlipDog.com


If you have any questions or 
concerns you may reach us by telephone at
1-877-887-FLIP or via email at [e-mail]

Comment 12

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

adding new [insult] keyword (which means, that this page doesn't deny us, but
says they don't support Netscape 6 (or any other Gecko browser)

Comment 13

[Olivier Cahagne]

*** Bug 171503 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Olivier Cahagne]

*** Bug 172762 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Ruslan Ismailov]

*** Bug 192266 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[Sam Hulick]

Hm.. i can understand not supporting Netscape 4.  But Netscape 6.x/7.x/Mozilla?
 flipdog = weak.

Comment 17

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 208073 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 19

[Michael Neilly]

What's the chance that is a real Mozilla bug?

I'm using Mozilla/5.0: (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313

I changed my user agent to: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows XP)
and get the same results. 

If you click where the map should be you will get an outline for each state
you click on. And the search does the correct thing by searching in that state.

Comment 20

[Michael Neilly]

Okay. So I played around a little bit with this out of curiousity.
I'm not javascript or css expert (not even a beginner) but.....

I saved the page locally and made the following change and got the
map to display at least which it wouldn't do before.... Hopefully
this gives someone with clue a lead.... Any non negative value for
the z-index property shows the map although the highlighting doesn't
work right...

<style type="text/css">

.mainMap
{
position: absolute;
z-index: -2;   <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< I removed the - add got the map to display
top: 120;
left: 134;
}
.stateHighlight
{
position: absolute;
z-index: 2;
top: 120;
left: 134;

}
.searchUsChkBox
{
position: absolute;
z-index: 2;
top: 120;
left: 134;

}

</style>

Comment 21

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 211262 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 22

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

I tried to use the flipdog site today and was rewarded with the unsupported
browser message, and sent them feedback.

Comment 23

[Greg K.]

Find Jobs page generates JS error:

Error: document.frmFinish has no properties
Source File:
http://flipdog.monster.com/js/loc.html;jsessionid=PGSOSDTHIMEVJQFIC2VSF3Q?_requestid=3439140
Line: 616

Comment 24

[Kevin Ar18]

Who should flipdog.com talk to if they are interested in recoding the site but
are not familiar with what to do in certain cases?

Comment 25

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Send them to me. I'll try to help.

Comment 26

[Kevin Ar18]

(In reply to comment #25)
> Send them to me. I'll try to help.
Thanks, I gave them your email address and also offered my assistance as well.

Comment 27

[Ronald Tilby]

Flipdog was acquired by Monster.  Please close this bug.