Continuing problems with gnome + mozilla pulldown menus

[jimd_NOSPAM at siu.edu]

By looking at BestBuy's web page source, there are specific tests which
exclude Opera and look for Navigator4 or IE (5?) browsers. I sometimes
have to open a pulldown in a new tab to get it to "work", otherwise I
seem to always wind up in Cameras on pulldown selection #2-n.


On  3 Jul, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 17:44, Mike Harding wrote:
>> Pulldowns don't work right in gnome, in freebsd and linux.
>> http://www.bestbuy.com is an example, this is impossible to use under
>> gnome but works great in kde or windowmaker.  I get tired of having to
>> switch out of gnome to get this stuff working - is there anybody out
>> there that has a clue as to what is going on?  As far as my use of
>> mozilla goes - I think that other browsers have the same problem, and
>> I -like- mozilla.
> 
> I can reproduce your problem here with Sawfish and Metacity.  It looks
> like BestBuy may have some bad JavaScript.  For example, Opera refuses
> to draw the pull-downs with the following error:
> 
> Error:
> name: TypeError
> message: Statement on line 1: Expression evaluated to null or undefined
> and is not convertible to Object: document.all.CamerasMenu
> 
> This may be related to why they don't work under GNOME.  That said, I
> have no idea why they work in other desktop environments.  Have you run
> this by the Mozilla or GNOME developers?