220142 - "Stop" while waiting for CSS should render rest of page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, enhancement)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030917
Firebird/0.6.1+

Steps to reproduce:

1a. Load Google's cache of a page that is being DoSed. (The page must use CSS.)
or
1b. Load the testcase.

Result: Mozilla displays only the part of the page above the CSS load.  For
Google's cache, this is the box telling you that you're viewing a Google cache.

2. Click "Stop".

Result: Nothing more appears.  (Same happens in IE.)

Expected result: Display the rest of the page without styling it.  (This happens
in Netscape 4.)

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: testcase using hixie's spiffy delayed-file.pl

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

-> style (loading, bz)

Comment 3

[Olivier Cahagne]

*** Bug 230482 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The problem here is that users expect "stop" to stop the page right there and
now and not render another thing.  So this bug should be wontfix; the right fix
is to fix bug 84582 so pages render even if not all sheets are yet loaded after
a suitable timeout.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

bz: makes sense.