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

From: Jeffrey Silverman (jeffrey_at_jhu.edu)
Date: 07/16/03 

Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:41:00 -0400

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

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!

Thanks... 

-- 
    Jeffrey D. Silverman | jeffrey AT jhu DOT edu
Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD
                 Website | http://www.wse.jhu.edu/newtnotes/

Relevant Pages

  • LinuxWorld irony: The LinuxWorld Website does not work properly on Linux!
    ... Sorry for all the crossposting -- I just never know where the best place ... I am using Mozilla 1.4 on RHL9. ... or any other distro that uses Moz as the default browser. ... Website | http://www.wse.jhu.edu/newtnotes/ ...
    (alt.linux)
  • LinuxWorld irony: The LinuxWorld Website does not work properly on Linux!
    ... Sorry for all the crossposting -- I just never know where the best place ... I am using Mozilla 1.4 on RHL9. ... or any other distro that uses Moz as the default browser. ... Website | http://www.wse.jhu.edu/newtnotes/ ...
    (alt.os.linux.redhat)
  • Re: Website problems on other systems
    ... > Thanks - and if you need to know anything about sculpture or casting, ... I went to your website using the Mozilla 1.7.3 browser running on ... Mozilla browsers and the Opera browser comply to these standards. ...
    (comp.os.linux.networking)
  • Re: Website problems on other systems
    ... > Thanks - and if you need to know anything about sculpture or casting, ... I went to your website using the Mozilla 1.7.3 browser running on ... Mozilla browsers and the Opera browser comply to these standards. ...
    (comp.os.linux.misc)
  • OT: question about HTTP headers
    ... I also tried installing the Win32 Mozilla in WINE, ... WINE and the site would actually believe that it was a Win32-base browser. ... I used wget to download the two .asp scripts that run when you first bring up the page, but I could not find in the browser identification code where this particular information was pulled from. ...
    (Debian-User)