194293 - Table looks SUPER long

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 113779

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[David Grant]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

On the URL given, one of the tables looks SUPER elongated.  I'll attach a
screenshot and a testcase I created.

Happens in 1.2.1 for Windows.  Doesn't happen in 1.2.1 OR 1.3b for Linux,
however.  Strange...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[David Grant]

Attachment: Screenshot showing the top of the table which is elongated

You can see the table on the left starts to descend downwards.

Comment 2

[David Grant]

Attachment: A screenshot showing what I see when I scroll down closer to the bottom of the page

Here's what I see at the bottom of the page, after scrolling down (a long ways)
to see the bottom.

Comment 3

[David Grant]

Attachment: Screenshot of simple test case. looks crazy

Screenshot showing the testcase in Windows Mozilla 1.2.1.  Sorry, I really wish
I could test on 1.3b, or nightly, but this is a shared computer.

Comment 4

[David Grant]

Attachment: Testcase, which displays what is seen in screenshot3

Testcase

Comment 5

[Madhur Bhatia]

looks fine to me on winXP trunk build 2003-02-17-04 (a 1.3beta) 
Have u tested on the latest build on windows?

Comment 6

[David Grant]

ok, I just tried on on 1.3b, 2003021008 and I'm still getting the exact same
behaviour.

Comment 7

[Gábor Lipták]

WFM

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030214

Comment 8

[David Grant]

Just upgraded to nightly build.  Still see the long table.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030220

Comment 9

[David Grant]

Attachment: Simple screenshot (with nightly-build)

Comment 10

[David Grant]

You know, I'm not surprised that it works on your computers.  Because this is a
very finicky bug I think. For example, if I remove the space between the dot and
the Celsius symbol, it will work.  OR, if I remove the <strong></strong> tag, it
will work.  If I put it back to the original, I will see the bug again.  And, if
I go to http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/forecast/city_e.html?ykf, the source of
this bug, and go to different canadian cities, some cities will do it, others
won't, it basically depends on the exact characters in the boxes.  So I wouldn't
be surprised if it also depends on the fonts you have set Mozilla set up with
perhaps.  On a related note, if I have it in the "non-working state" and I zoom
down to 22% it will fix itself.  And vice versa, it will fix itself if I zoom up
to 1519%.  Anything in between, I see the bug.

I don't see any rhyme nor reason to the behaviour.  If I put in a longer number,
like "152597852. °C" it will still show the bug.  If I add one more digit, the
page will display correctly, so I thought this was maybe the threshold, but if I
then delete the space and add another number at the same time, the page will
display correctly.  It's crazy.

Comment 11

[David Grant]

Attachment: Even simpler testcase

This test case is even simpler, and I think what is causing this bug is the
"degree" character perhaps.  Is it possible to put a "helpwanted" keyword, and
make a comment asking for more people to test this on their machines?

Comment 12

[R.K.Aa.]

WFM, including testcases. Current trunk CVS, Linux.

Comment 13

[David Grant]

Okay, I just tried my Mozilla 1.3b on Windows XP at my home computer, and it
WFM.  This is definitely a strange bug.  I can't think of what my home computer
and work computer DON'T have in common.  I even used my prefs.js file from home
when I originally installed Moz on my work computer about 2 months ago.  

Comment 14

[Daniel Wang]

r wfm per reporter comment

Comment 15

[David Grant]

sorry for the confusion.  I meant WFM, but only in reference to Windows XP at my
home computer.  I should have been more clear.  I still get the same problem on
my computer at work, with Windows XP and the latest Mozilla.  In fact I'm
noticing it on all sorts of web pages, anything with a table.  I think this bug
should stay open, at least for some time until hopefully someone else will come
along who experiences this bug as well.

Comment 16

[David Grant]

Just tried Moz 1.3, and this bug is no longer present, even though it was
present in 1.3a and 1.3b.  So I'm marking it as fixed.

Comment 17

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

np patch = not fixed

Comment 18

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> wfm

Comment 19

[David Grant]

It is actually present on my work computer with 1.3.  Just on some different web
pages than before.

Comment 20

[Daniel Wang]

reporter (David Grant), those other sites... would you happen to refer
to international sites like these: bug 189628, bug 113779, bug 194254?

Comment 21

[David Grant]

Hmm, the symptoms look indentical, and the first screeshot you see for this bug,
it has to do with a celsius degree symbol, so that could be the link with the
international characters thing.  I'll to try out those other bug reports
tomorrow at work.  My home computer is unaffected by this bug for some strange
reason.

Comment 22

[David Grant]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 113779 ***