Continuing problems with gnome + mozilla pulldown menus

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 22:36, 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?

Just FYI, this is fixed in metacity-2.5.3.  However, due to a functional
change in raise-to-click, this will not be back-ported to 2.4.x.  If you
want to use 2.5.3, it's available from my CVS repo.  Else, wait for
GNOME 2.4.

Joe

> 
> Joe
> 
> > 
> > - Mike H.
> > 
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