255972 - Problem with long HTML content using table structure and slow connexion

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Laurent Dorier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031030
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031030

If the layout is using a table to display the web page, and a lot of content
required, the table layout is not right. First column is displayed with width=100%.
Sometimes, a simple refresh is fixing, sometimes not...
Bug with FireFox and Mozilla.

Looks like it's only happening if the internet connection is too slow in regard
of the content. Local tests or very fast internet connection (faster as ADSL)
don't reproduce this bug.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to etalkers.org (Maybe you will see immediatly the problem, if not go to
step 2)
2. Register as member (free of course, no spam or other disadvantage ;) )
3. Use the usertheme menu on the left side to switch to an other graphical theme
or/and navigate on the site

Actual Results:  
First column of the main table is displayed with width: 100%

Expected Results:  
First column width should be 150 pixels or 15% of the screen ONLY.

Comment 1

[PikeUK]

Bugs that occur in both Mozilla and Firefox should be filed in the Browser
component.

-> Browser:Layout

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this a problem with a current build?  1.6a is ancient...

Comment 3

[Laurent Dorier]

This issue is existing with ALL Moz/FireFox versions. Just try the reproducible
process. ;)
Just here to report this bug I didn't upgrade to keep an old version for tests.
Thanks for your nice work guys ;)

Comment 4

[Laurent Dorier]

Work around (But NOT the fix) is: add an empty row at the beginning of the table
with correct sizes to use...
Fixed on my site, so if you need to see the bug on my site (you can anyway see
on many other sites ;) ), please ask me to reinstall old layout.

Comment 5

[WrYBiT]

I have the same Bug on my side, by using the cms system "e107.org".
I tryed the Row Trick but it won't fix it on my side.

MozTeam! PLZ Help us out with a littel Fix :)

Greez WrYBiT

Comment 6

[Paul McGrath]

I'm using 1.0.1 and this still happens

Comment 7

[Jon]

Same problem for me using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3)
Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Not every time but more on some sites than others.

Comment 8

[Andrew Rockwell]

The setting nglayout.initialpaint.delay used to fix this error. You had to set
it to about 1500 milliseconds, but it would make firefox render pages correctly.
Now this setting has been taken out in current builds. I'm not sure if adding it
back is the correct fix but it seemed to do the trick for me.

Comment 9

[Scott Markwell]

I'm seeing this problem on e107 sites with the more popular themes, and now I'm
seeing this on politics.slashdot.org 

Comment 10

[Scott Markwell]

I am expereincing the problem on 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
This is very bandwidth dependent.
(confiming some info floating around)

Comment 11

[ajs]

(In reply to comment #10)
> I am expereincing the problem on 
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
> This is very bandwidth dependent.
> (confiming some info floating around)

(In reply to comment #10)
> I am expereincing the problem on 
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
> This is very bandwidth dependent.
> (confiming some info floating around)

I have been a member of this community for some time..http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/

I recently noticed that occasionally, when viewing a page at this site in
Firefox, a horizontal scroll bar appears at the bottom of the page -- similar to
the one that appears at the bottom of the mis-rendered e107 pages.

Scrolling the window to the right reveals about 1/2 page of background, however
no content is hidden in this area, as is the case with e107 content pages.

The h2g2 site has undergone a couple of upgrades, and I thought it was a minor
bug with their system.  However, viewing the page in IE doesn't result in a
superfluous horizontal scroll bar.

( I rarely use IE anymore, btw, so I never really paid much attention to this
display anomaly )

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I don't see a problem with politics.slashdot.org and e107.org has changed

please reopen if you can reproduce and attach or specify a testcase, preferably in minimal form