3409 - [PP]Layout doesn't use available space

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P2)

Description

[tor]

The URL given lays out incorrectly, with the area which should contain
the news articles blank and the content pushed down into the next available
area for layout.  Mozilla also gives this warning as it loads the page:

  BUG - table cell content max element height greater than desired height

This problem is seen both on a Linux/sparc build from a 3/3 evening CVS pull
and the mozilla.org 3/3 nightly binary for Win32.

Comment 1

[karnaze (gone)]

Chris P, can you see if this a problem on an optimized build. It looks ok on my
3/23 WinNT debug build. The warning message reported is not a major concern.

Comment 2

[Chris Petersen]

Fixed in April 5th Build.

Comment 3

[tor]

It appears that the news.com homepage has changed so that it
doesn't exhibit this problem anymore.  Here's an article which
shows the problem and hopefully will be more stable:

    http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,34636,00.html

The text of the article gets placed below the right hand
sidebar (4/5 win32 nightly binary):

Comment 4

[leger]

petersen, is this Linux/Unix specific?

Comment 5

[karnaze (gone)]

Moving to M6.

Comment 6

[karnaze (gone)]

Moving to M8.

Comment 7

[John Morrison]

[using may23 win95 opt] Going to the article URL listed above, and
www.news.com, I no longer see the behaviour (but I did see it, as described,
in April). (There were some other flow-related bugs that were fixed a couple
of weeks ago, I believe).

There are a variety of small bugs on the page but they are all known/reported
(e.g., 'residual font', 'inline/block', '/form & tables', etc.) but if you
weren't comparing directly to 4.5 (win), you wouldn't really notice them. I
would recommend closing this one. (comments [e-mail]? )

Comment 8

[Chris Petersen]

I don't see this problem in the Latest build (June 29th). Works for me.

Comment 9

[karnaze (gone)]

Moving to M9.

Comment 10

[Erin Pierce]

Attachment: test for 3409

Comment 11

[Erin Pierce]

Attachment: new test

Comment 12

[Erin Pierce]

How the browser draws the page to make full use of the page's space needs to be
improved

Comment 13

[tor]

Please reread http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/bugathon.html for a general
description of that the engineers are looking for in a testcase.  They want
a small snippet of HTML that will reproduce the problem, not instructions
directing them to visit a major site.  The bug-a-thon was created so that
people outside of netscape would take the time needed to distill a large
page down to the minimum needed to show the problem, and thus save the
mozilla/netscape engineers this effort.

Comment 14

[karnaze (gone)]

I'm clearing the status whiteboard, since there still isn't a smaller test case.

Comment 15

[karnaze (gone)]

I don't see the reported problem on the page mentioned in the 4/6 comments.
Marking fixed.

Comment 16

[Chris Petersen]

Based on the original description, the problem is no nolonger occuring. The page
was tested with the Sept 2 build.