start.com: umbrella bug

• Component: New Bugs
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Geoffrey Garen]

This bug is also in Radar as <rdar://4213393>

Very little shows in Safari.  A lot more in FireFox.
Side-by-side screenshot attached.

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<GMT20-Dec-2005 00:02:12GMT> Geoff Garen:
JavaScript errors:
- Msn.Runtime.Init() is called, but Msn.Runtime is undefined. It looks like Msn.Runtime, Msn.Bindings, 
and some others declared in msncore.js aren't being evaluated properly.
- window.attachEvent is called, but Safari doesn't implement it. (That's not the key to this bug, since the 
attached event is only a debugging routine, which doesn't impact the layout of the page.)

[Geoffrey Garen]

Created attachment 5744 [details]
screenshot

[Alexander Kellett]

researching a bit further leads to finding:
   http://start.com//extern/wsfw/compat/0.072605.0/msncompat.js
which should provide a mozilla compat layer,
unfortunately we aren't seen as mozilla, due to this code used to detect it:
   "(typeof HTMLDocument!='undefined')"
   -> false for safari

[Geoffrey Garen]

Filed bug 7838 about supporting window.HTMLDocument and related items.

[Geoffrey Garen]

Darin and Maciej and I talked this over and concluded that adding support for
the Mozilla compatibility layer, which uses the DOM, is a better approach than
implementing IE's extensions to the DOM. So let's try that approach first.

[Maciej Stachowiak]

This appears to at least display now, but some things don't work. For example, entering a city name fails.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> - window.attachEvent is called, but Safari doesn't implement it. (That's not the key to this bug, since the 
> attached event is only a debugging routine, which doesn't impact the layout of the page.)

Added Bug 6598 to depends-on list for tracking purposes.

[Darin Adler]

(In reply to comment #5)
> This appears to at least display now, but some things don't work. For example,
> entering a city name fails.

 Maybe we should retitle this bug then? The thing originally reported here is fixed.

[Darin Adler]

The only failure I could find was that I couldn't set the city -- I think that's a new bug and not this one. Everything else I tried worked.

[Darin Adler]

I am testing <http://www.start.com> now, not <http://www.start.com/3>; everything seems to work fine.

I think this should be moving off the hit list, unless someone finds I'm mistaken and reports a specific problem.