975653 - chromestatus.com's Stack Rank and Timeline metrics views work in Chrome but not Firefox

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

This Chrome site uses Polymer.

STR:
1. Load http://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/popularity
2. Wait

RESULT:
The list of feature names never actually loads in Firefox, but it does in Chrome.

STR:
1. Load http://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity
2. Click on the "Select a property" drop-down list

RESULT:
The drop-down list is empty in Firefox, but not Chrome.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this a regression?

And if not, is this just a Polymer bug?

Comment 2

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

This is not a Firefox regression. The site fails to work in Nightly 30, Firefox 27, and ESR 24.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

It also completely fails to work in IE9, and in IE10/11 seems to get the data but the rendering is totally wrong, afaict...

I'm willing to be convinced this is other than the site just relying on non-standard behavior, but would need some more data.

Comment 4

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

If this site does not work in IE, then it's probably a Polymer or Chromium Dashboard problem. I will just report the problem on their issue tracker:

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chromium-dashboard

Comment 5

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chromium-dashboard/issues/96

Comment 6

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

The resolution of this problem [1] was that chromestatus.com's dashboard had a property name conflict with Firefox's HTML Microdata API property `properties`. Bug 909633 proposes to remove the HTML Microdata API (as WebKit and Blink have done).

[1] https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chromium-dashboard/commit/24a0a8edaa2eadf274b15b3e76bc5349364e478e

Comment 7

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

FWIW, this works correctly now (presumably because the github issue in comment 5 has been closed).