225018 - website doens't display well

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Jon Stevens]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031104 Camino/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031104 Camino/0.7+

sure, the html source is filled with a bunch of microsoft ****, but IE 5.2.3 on
OSX 10.3 at least kinda displays the text on the page...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

mozilla bug, happens there too

Comment 2

[Jon Henry]

I would guess that this is a Tech Evangelism bug. It isn't surprising that it
renders alright in IE, since as you said it makes extensive use of MS-specific
code which is gibberish to any other browser.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The source of the page has all the content carefully commented out.  IE's parser
is purposefully broken to ignore the exact kind of comments that page uses.

Comment 4

[Jon Stevens]

what is invalid about the commented code?

i mean, camino/mozilla's 'view source' function properly color highlights
everything and the text in the page is in proper html markup...

i think that mozilla/camino should at least display something more than what it
currently does.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> what is invalid about the commented code?

Nothing.  Just most of the content on the page is commented out from mozilla's
point of view.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Marking invalid again.  There is nothing we can do to support this sort of
"HTML" short of completely breaking our HTML comment parsing.

Comment 7

[zack-weg]

Actually, this is a dupe of bug 112015.
Just remove the "position:relative" from the outer <span> to make the page work.

Comment 8

[zack-weg]

I.e.: type
  javascript:document.getElementsByTagName("span")[0].style.position="static",
void 0
into the URL bar.

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Oh, I see.  I'd missed that part... yay, "word-HTML".  Reopening.

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Would probably be fixed by bug 135082

Comment 11

[Benjamin Smedberg]

FIXED by roc with bug 235778.