95148 - planetprint.com - [LAYER] DHTML menu uses layers

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Phil Schwartau]

The site http://www.planetprint.com uses layers, which are non-W3C 
standard and not supported by Mozilla/N6. 


From  http://planetprint.com/dhtmllib.js :

/******************************************************************************
* dhtmllib.js                                                                 *
*                                                                             *
* Copyright 1999 by Mike Hall.                                                *
* Web address: http://www.brainjar.com                                        *
* Last update: February 26, 2000.                                             *
*                                                                             *
* Provides basic functions for DHTML positioned elements which will work on   *
* both Netscape Communicator and Internet Explorer browsers (version 4.0 and  *
* up).                                                                        *
******************************************************************************/

// Determine browser.
var isMinNS4 = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape") >= 0 &&
                parseFloat(navigator.appVersion) >= 4) ? 1 : 0;
var isMinIE4 = (document.all) ? 1 : 0;
var isMinIE5 = (isMinIE4 && navigator.appVersion.indexOf("5.") >= 0) ? 1 : 0;

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Layer visibility.
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

function hideLayer(layer) {

  if (isMinNS4)
    layer.visibility = "hide";
  if (isMinIE4)
    layer.style.visibility = "hidden";
}

function showLayer(layer) {

  if (isMinNS4)
    layer.visibility = "show";
  if (isMinIE4)
    layer.style.visibility = "visible";
}
           etc. 
           etc. 



And from http://planetprint.com/js/navbar.js :

function navBarCreate() {

  if (isMinNS4)
    str += '<layer name="navBar' + this.index + '_filler"></layer>\n'
        +  '<layer name="navBar' + this.index + '_hdrsBase">\n';

           etc.
           etc.

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

http://www.planetprint.com/index.cfm?xcr=browsers.html needs fixing when this
gets fixed

Comment 2

[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 3

[Frankie]

PlanetPrint is gone. PathForward does not use any js menus.

% curl -I http://www.planetprint.com
HTTP/1.1 301 Error
Location: http://www.pathforward.com/
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 150