92265 - netscape.com - columns render as one column

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 77888

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P1)

Description

[kinmoz]

Using my 07/24/01 MOZILLA_0_9_2_BRANCH Win32 debug build:

I load the default page for my.netscape.com (http://my.netscape.com), and
instead of seeing the usual 3 columns of content, I see a single column
containing all the content.

That is what should be rendering like:

    Column1  Column2  Column3

is now rendering as:

    Column1
    Column2
    Column3

Not sure if this is a table issue or not.

Comment 1

[karnaze (gone)]

I don't see the problem on a 7/18 debug branch. Is it possible that mozilla 6.1 
is getting redirected to a different page?

Comment 2

[Marc Attinasi]

Looks OK with 07-23 branch build - d'loading the 7-24 build now...

Comment 3

[Marc Attinasi]

7-24 branch build is working fine for me too, logged-in and not logged-in.

Kin, any additional data that might help us understand why this is wrong for
you? Did you try logged-in or logged-out?

Comment 4

[Chris Waterson]

_my_.netscape.com looks okay, too ;-) (it's trunk build from this AM).

Comment 5

[Chris Petersen]

I can't reproduce either on the July 24th branch. All three columns are rendered
for me too. I'm going to the url directly and not logging in as a member. Tested
under Windows ME.

Comment 6

[selmer (gone)]

7/25 branch winNT, WFM both signed in and not signed in.

Comment 7

[kinmoz]

So waterson and I have been looking into this and it seems that with my Win32 
build, I get the correct layout when using my Commercial build (netscp6.exe), 
and the wrong layout when using the Mozilla build (mozilla.exe).


Here's the user agent string for my Commercial build:


  User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010724 
Netscape6/6.1


And here's the user agent string for my Mozilla build:


  User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010724


waterson says that for my Mozilla build, my.netscape.com is serving me a page 
intended for use in Netscape 4.x which uses layers, where as with my Commercial 
build, I get the correct page.

waterson can't reproduce this problem with his branch build from today, so I'm 
currently pulling a fresh branch build for today and will report back my 
findings.

Comment 8

[Marc Attinasi]

FWIW: my Mozilla build from last night works fine too (CVS build, some minor
changes in my tree that should make no difference).

Comment 9

[kinmoz]

Cc'ing [e-mail] ... this looks like it may be a UserAgent sniffing 
problem on the my.netscape.com side of things.

I changed Mozilla's useragent string in the debugger so that it tacks on the 
vendor/vendorSub string "Netscape6/6.1", and my.netscape.com serves me the right 
version of the page.

I had [e-mail] try loading my.netscape.com with his Win32 Mozilla 
build, and he got the correct version of the page. So I'm still a little puzzled 
about why I'm getting the wrong page ... unless my.netscape.com is checking OS 
versions?

Here's anthonyd's Mozilla user agent string:

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2+) 
Gecko/20010717

Comment 10

[kinmoz]

Since this isn't a layout bug, I'm changing the component to "Evangelism" and 
removing "Assigned To:".

Comment 11

[kinmoz]

--> default AssignedTo and QAContact for Evangelism component.

Comment 12

[Dave Barrowman]

Another data point: using an MFCEmbed branch build with user agent string:

  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010725

I cannot reproduce the bug.  I see the standard 3 columns.

Comment 13

[kinmoz]

It looks like they are looking at the OS within the user agent. If I change my 
user agent string to use Win98 or Windows NT 5.0, I get the correct version of 
the my.netscape.com page.

Comment 14

[kinmoz]

Here's how you reproduce this bug. In your Mozilla/Netscape6 profile, edit your 
prefs.js file so that it contains the following line:

user_pref("general.useragent.override", "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; 
WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2+) Gecko/20010726");

Then restart your Mozilla/Netscape6 browser and go to http://my.netscape.com.

You should then see the page load with 1 column.

Comment 15

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

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

Comment 16

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

my.netscape.com does not support Mozilla. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77888 ***

Comment 17

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Verifying dupe