Closed Bug 43604 Opened 24 years ago Closed 23 years ago

uncg.edu - [LAYER] Main page's test for Javascript support fails, forwards to text-only page.

Categories

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

All
Windows NT
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: kiaser_zohsay, Assigned: doronr)

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Details

From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m17) Gecko/20000622 BuildID: 2000062220 The main page on UNC-Greensboro's web site is heavily laden with Javascript. When loading the page, the graphic-javasrcipt version of the page begins to render, then forwards to the text-only version of the main page, which convieniently reminds you to upgrade your current version. Hey, this is the nightly from Thursday, how much more current can you get :) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to http://www.uncg.edu 2. Watch the page start to load, then give up. Actual Results: Recieve coersion concerning browser versions Expected Results: Receive a pretty graphical page with drop-down lists and image rollovers. The page very well could contain non-standard javasrcipt code (they claim to support IE and Nav) but I am no js guru. Another URL with complains about javascript is http://pipeline.unc.edu. Pipeline also requires Java and a username/password.
Doesn't seem to be a JS Engine issue. The given web page uses Layers, and I believe this may be the problem. Layers are no longer supported by Gecko/Nav5. I don't know enough about this issue to know if that would cause the behavior described above, however,so I'd like to forward this to Asa for a second opinion. An example of layers in the HTML is: function CSFindElement(n,ly) { if (CSBVers < 4) return document[n]; var curDoc = ly ? ly.document : document; var elem = curDoc[n]; if (!elem) { for (var i=0;i<curDoc.layers.length;i++) { elem = CSFindElement(n,curDoc.layers[i]); if (elem) return elem;}} return elem; } Thanks, Asa -
Assignee: rogerl → asa
Component: Javascript Engine → Browser-General
QA Contact: pschwartau → doronr
It doesn't actually give up. it redirects but if you hit the back button it will display the page. Site relies on document.layers, document.all, and fails to detect client correctly. See http://sites.netscape.net/ekrock/standards.html for details on standards-compliance in Mozilla, and which proprietary features of NS 4.x and IE will not be supported. Marking INVALID as per http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/bugathon.html#layerbugs
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Summary: Main page's test for Javascript support fails, forwards to text-only page. → [LAYER] Main page's test for Javascript support fails, forwards to text-only page.
Moving all [LAYER] bugs to Evangelism component for tracking and open-source evangelism by mozilla community members of sites that need to upgrade to support web standards such as HTML 4.0 (instead of LAYER/ILAYER) and the W3C DOM (instead of Nav4 document.layers[] or IE document.all()). Sites should be lobbied to do the upgrade using the email templates that are linked to from http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/bugathon.html#layerbugs . When a site's owner has confirmed receipt of the message requesting an upgrade, the bug should be marked with the keyword evangelized to indicate that evangelism for that bug is complete. When the site finishes the upgrade and supports standards, the bug should be closed.
Assignee: asa → nobody
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Component: Browser-General → Evangelism
Keywords: evangwanted
QA Contact: doronr → nobody
Reopening to register fact that this page probably isn't yet upgraded (until it is, at which point we'll close the bug). evangwanted.
Resolution: INVALID → ---
SPAM:Changing QA contact on 111 evang bugs as I am now the new QA contact for this component. Sorry about the spam zach
QA Contact: nobody → zach
Reassigning Evangelism bugs to me, the component's new owner. I would like to take this opportunity to thank nobody@mozilla.org for all of his dedication, contributions, and hard work, and wish him luck at his new job. Thanks, nobody.
Assignee: nobody → BlakeR1234
Mass confirming Evangelism bugs to get off the Unconfirmed radar
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
-> evangelism@telocity.com for my evangelism bugs. removing the now-depreciated evangelism-related keywords. setting platform to All.
Assignee: blakeross → evangelism
Keywords: evangwanted
Hardware: PC → All
First page is now redirecting to the proper page (home.html). Can someone double check this?
Reassigning evangelism bugs to bclary@netscape.com.
Assignee: evangelism → bclary
The page loads correctly now.
Tested with Trunk build 2001-05-09-15/win2k. I still get Error: curDoc.layers has no properties Source File http://www.uncg.edu/home.html line 22. I don't think they have fixed the layers problems with this page. In addition, they use non-html tags in the page which also may cause problems. It does not appear from this bug report that anyone has attempted to contact uncq regarding their layer problem.
Summary: [LAYER] Main page's test for Javascript support fails, forwards to text-only page. → uncg.edu - [LAYER] Main page's test for Javascript support fails, forwards to text-only page.
All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for details.
Component: Evangelism → US English
Product: Browser → Tech Evangelism
Version: other → unspecified
SPAM. You may filter these bugs by querying the string "ReadingRitingRithmetic" Mass Moving Bugs on Educational institutions in the United States to the new US Edu component and assigning to default owners.
Assignee: bclary → doronr
Component: US General → US Edu
QA Contact: zach → caillon
problem's gone as I see - someone not?
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
ver
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
tech evang june 2003 reorg
Component: US Edu → English US
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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