165709 - Chat text is being written into a wrong place.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Layout: Images, Video, and HTML Frames, defect)

Description

[Sami]

When joined a chat the text written by others is being written to wrong place.

The www-pages are written in finnish, but trying this should be easy if you
don't understand finnish.

I don't know if the parser is the component where the fault is.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

What are the exact steps to join the chat?

Comment 2

[Sami]

Steps to join the chat:

1. Click in the picture the chat room you want to use. (Any will do)

2. Next you are shown the people using this place. A room with a few users
should be selected. If there are no users or you see text "TÄYNNÄ" (which means
that the channel has maximum number of users), you should go to the step one and
select other chat room.

3. Enter your alias (any unused alias will do)

4. There is a link called "sisään" just below the alias field. Click it to join
the chat.

5. Now you have joined the chat. And text by other users is written in the wrong
place (-> to the window where you should enter the text).

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: What I see when I follow those directions

This seems to be ok, no?

Comment 4

[Sami]

Attachment: Picture when chatting with mozilla browser

Chatting with multiple users, the screenshot of my Mozilla. I am using 1.0, but
also with 1.1 I am having the same problem.

Comment 5

[Sami]

A screenshot attached to this bug report in 2002-09-15 21:15 seems perfectly ok.
But this migh be because there is only one person in the chat room. I attached a
screenshot what I see when joining a chat room, where there are multiple users.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Sami, 1.1 is pretty old at this point (and 1.0 is _very_ old).  Could you test 1.2a?

Comment 7

[Sami]

Attachment: Mozilla 1.2a showing the same bug as previous versions.

Same bug exists in mozilla 1.2 alpha.

Comment 8

[Michael Lefevre]

reporter (Sami): can you still reproduce this bug with a recent build of mozilla
(for example, 1.2.1)? if so, please comment again with details. if not, please
resolve this bug as WORKSFORME. thanks.

Comment 9

[Sami]

I just reproduced this bug with mozilla 1.2.1. 1.2.1 behaves like previous versions.

Comment 10

[Sebastian von Knorring]

I am able to reproduce this issue with a recent nightly trunk build (Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207). But not
consistently, sometimes it works OK.

The chat server functions by letting the actual chat page (the topmost frame
with text on white background) be 'neverending', i.e. the page never finishes
loading. New HTML content is written to the TCP stream as the chat participants
produce new dialogue.

For some reason (I'm not sure if Mozilla or the chat server is here to be
blamed), Mozilla mixes up the data streams of the top frame (dynamic,
neverending page) and the bottom frame (static page) by appending the new chat
dialogue to the bottom frame, where it does not belong.

I first susptected something along a HTTP pipelining or HTTP/1.1 vs. HTTP/1.0
issue, but changing settings in the preferences does not seem to change behaviour.

Comment 11

[Sami]

Bug still exists in Mozilla 1.3.

Comment 12

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Over to browser-general for triage; this is not sounding much like layout.

Comment 13

[Thomas]

Attachment: Screen shot of chat room

Comment 14

[Thomas]

This worked fine for me.

	
Mozilla 1.4
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

Comment 15

[Sami]

I tried mozilla 1.4rc1, still did not work.

Comment 16

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Sami, can you test this with 1.6 or newer? I'm unable to reprduce a problem with
a nightly build from 2004020308. Please re-open if you can still reproduce this
on 1.6 or newer. Thanks.

Comment 17

[Sami]

I tested with mozilla 1.6 and with mozilla's latest nightbuild, the bug remains
in them both.

In addition to Opera, konqueror also seems to work correctly.

In addition to mozilla, epiphany, galeon and mozilla-firebird 0.7 do not work
correctly.

Comment 18

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Sami, are you using a clean profile?

Comment 19

[Sami]

I just tried with a clean profile (mozilla 1.6). Bug still remains.

I bet that this might be unpleasant to test for person who does not speak
finnish. Let me translate some buttons:

"Sano" button means "Say"
"Poistu" buttons means "Leave"
"sanot" is translated as "you say"
"kaikille" is translated as "for all" 

If needed, I can provide more translations.

Comment 20

[logan]

I see this also:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

Opened up Mozilla 1.6, logged in and sent a message to the same room. In
Firefox, the message from Mozilla goes to the lower part of the screen, where ya
enter yer message to send it out.

Comment 21

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** Bug 196409 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 22

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->frames

Comment 23

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This bug needs a minimal testcase.  Until we have one, there's no point looking
at it, really...

Comment 24

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

And Asa, _please_ stop confirming layout bugs without testcases.  They'll never
be looked at, and being confirmed means they will never get a testcase either.

Comment 25

[Andrew]

I see not one problem. Everything checks out OK.

Comment 26

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

site goes to http://www.voice.fi/
so testcase URL is gone