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and subject line iceweasel has been superseded by firefox-esr
has caused the Debian Bug report #660035,
regarding dynamic <marquee> fails to scroll in iceweasel
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Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.5.16-11
I'm working on developing web pages using Debian Squeeze. I was using
the <marquee> element when I discovered it didn't scroll.
I did some digging.
1) The <marquee> element needs to be dynamically created to stop it from
scrolling. If the <marquee> element is present when the page loads
it works just fine. So, my page has an empty <div> that I put the
<marquee> element in using javascript (jquery). Basically, the <div>
is a place for help information, that dynamically changes. Sometimes
it holds a two line paragraph.
2) The javascript code that fails for iceweasel works in chromium-browser,
epiphany, konqueror, and WinXP/IE8 just fine (all but IE8 from Debian
Squeeze).
3) The iceweasel/firefox <marquee> can be persuaded to work by calling
the DOM object's .init() function. (A marquee has start() and stop()
functions, and an init() function. The start()/stop() functions are
often tied to mouseover events so that the mouse can be used to pause
the marquee. I assume the init() function should be called by the
browser once the <marquee> element is part of the DOM... but apparently
isn't in iceweasel.)
So, using in a jquery callback function that is tripped when the
<marquee> element is added to the DOM, proper operation is restored by:
try {
dom_obj = $(this)[0]; // equiv to document.getElementById('foo')
dom_obj.init();
}
catch(err) {;} // do nothing
4) I took a look at the Mozilla buglist. The closest reference I could
find is 479467 which contains a discussion on a different issue but
does mention having problems with scrolling of <marquee> elements.
The Mozilla bug also suggests that this issue is fixed in later versions
of mozilla/firefox.
5) You may also want to know that I'm using xulrunner-1.9.1.16-11.
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 115.12.0esr-1+rm
src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.
Andreas
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