Re: LinuxWorld irony: The LinuxWorld Website does not work properly on Linux!

From: Chris F.A. Johnson (c.f.a.johnson_at_rogers.com)
Date: 07/16/03 

Date: 16 Jul 2003 16:57:10 GMT

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 at 13:41 GMT, Jeffrey Silverman wrote:
> Sorry for all the crossposting -- I just never know where the best place
> to post stuff is, with all the near-duplicate newsgroups...
>
> So I get RedHat's newsletter, "Under the Brim," in my inbox and it
> mentions the LinuxWorld Expo in SF. Okay, I'd love to go, I'll check out
> the website. Well, waddya know, the website's DHTML fly-out menus don't
> work! They fly out, but I am not able to click on the links on the menus.
> Clicking a link that has just "flown out" does *nothing*.
>
> I am using Mozilla 1.4 on RHL9.
> Mozilla Signature: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701
>
> This is a link to the example page:
> http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny03/V40/index.cvn?ID=10001

    What problems do you have with the page?

    I don't see any problem, using Mozilla 1.4.

> So I try Opera 7.11 and no problem, DHTML is working fine.
>
> I guess this is a Mozilla problem, more than Linux, specifically, (thus
> the mozilla ng crosspost), but since Mozilla is the default browser on
> RedHat, it is, in essence, a RedHat distro problem. And probably Mandrake
> or any other distro that uses Moz as the default browser.
>
> After searching Bugzilla for a bit, I found bug number 102578:
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102578
>
> It seems to be roughly the same problem I am having with the LinuxWorld
> Expo site.
>
> Why is this bug still in Mozilla??? It affects browseability on many
> websites. The worst part is that it affects even standards-compliant
> websites, as this is not a <layer> problem! 

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	Chris F.A. Johnson
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