213346 - The slashdot left sidebar's table width is 100% of the window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 217527

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Anthony Shipman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

The left sidebar, under the headings "Login" and "Sections" fills 100% of the
screen width so none of the article column is visible. Increasing the width of
the browser lets some of the article material show. The page is drawn correctly
by Konqueror.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to the URL
2.Look
3.

Actual Results:  
The left sidebar table occupies the full width of the browser window.

Expected Results:  
Shown all columns.

Redhat 8.0

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

worksforme with linux trunk 20030720 and 1.4
does reloading the page help?

Comment 2

[fondacio]

Confirm, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Since the last few days, the first time I load Slashdot in a maximized window, I
see this too. Reloading the page solves the problem. It didn't happen before, so
it might be a change in the Slashdot code.

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

Confirming new based on previous comment.
WFM though 20030720 PC/WinXP

Comment 4

[fondacio]

Attachment: Screenshot of incorrectly rendered frontpage

This screenshot shows the /. frontpage as it is rendered the first time on
Win98SE with 1.4. This time I had to reload it twice to get it right.

Comment 5

[WD]

OS -> ALL

I'm pretty sure this is a dupe, though.

Comment 6

[eberry]

I see this too with today's Moz build under XP.  The related/duplicate issue
mentioned is likely bug 217527.

Comment 7

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

Attachment: Screenshot of issue

Comment 8

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 217527 ***

Comment 9

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

Was posting (as dbaron marked dup):

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I'm not so sure it's a dup of 217527.  

What's interesting, is that if I save the page to a file, and open the file.  It
does render correctly.  I'm not sure quite what that means, but perhaps a layout
guru like dbaron could perhaps make sense of it.

It doesn't sound like a dup, because it's 2 distinct problems.  And they happen
at different times.  I still see bug 217527's issue appear.  But now I see this
as well.

I don't remember seeing this before a few days ago, which is also quite odd.
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I guess that's the case.  He knows better than most.