268894 - rendering difference on different refreshes

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Joshua Strzalko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

The page in the URL is only one of the many on the site that generate the issue.
 If you hit refresh a few time syou will notice that the page renders
differently.  THere is no dynamic content in the PHP code behind the scenes. 
Everything is static.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to site
2. if a scroll bar is present hit refresh. ... if not hit refresh
3.  the page will render differently after a few refreshes, if not after the
first one

Actual Results:  
content shifts

Expected Results:  
kept the content to the top of the page

The HTML on the page in this bug is verified XHTML transitional compliant as per
the W3c validator. (some of the other pages on the site may not be)

Comment 1

[Paul van Schayck]

Confirmed for: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109
Firefox/1.0

Comment 2

[Paul van Schayck]

To add some more information. The different rendering occurs when you scrolled
arround. It would be interesting to create a limited testcase.

Comment 3

[Joshua Strzalko]

I went ahead and created a copy of the page preserving all of the content.  This
will ensure that the page (since it is on a live site) will still be able to
reproduce the bug.  The new link is http://www.advbooks.com/plans-bug.php  This
URL will not change.

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Bug also occurs in Mozilla 2004-11-26-06 trunk on Linux.

Comment 5

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: Testcase

This testcase uses Hyatt's hack (js) to trigger the bug.

Comment 6

[Jonathan]

20 refreshes of testcase, some cache-less, some not, WFM