103267 - npr.org - The NPR home page is looking really sick

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P1)

Description

[Stephen Moehle]

The NPR home page is looking really bad.  The background color should be white,
but it showing as a very dark grey in Mozilla.  The center column of the page
(that has "today's news" and "special features") is made up of a couple of
tables that all live within a <td> of a containing table.  This big <td> has a
class, "content", that specifies a background color of #FFFFFF.  Mozilla seems
to be ignoring this.  The page looks fine in NN4 and Opera.

Tested with Mozilla trunk build 2001100408 on Linux.

Comment 1

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

There's a missing end brace here:

SPAN.textsuper          {
                                        vertical-align:super;
                                        font-size:8px;
SPAN.titlesuper         {
                                        vertical-align:super;
                                        font-size:10px;
                                        }

that causes the rest of the stylesheet to be ignored, according to the parsing
rules in the CSS spec.

->Evangelism.

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

contact info [e-mail]

offending stylesheet http://www.npr.org/include/css/npr.css

contacted 10/5/01.

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

The webmaster email address was returned as undeliverable. I tried several
others, called and tried to contact them directly and have sent mail to their
postmaster. Not sure they really want feedback. ;-)

Comment 4

[Stephen Moehle]

NPR has fixed their stylesheet.  The page looks fine in Mozilla now.  Resolving
as FIXED.

Comment 5

[Brant Gurganus]

New problem, same site:
My default charset is UTF-8 with auto detection if possible, on the Text Only
version, some characters are incorrect such as in "Morning Edition".

The Page Info dialog shows the character set as ISO-8859-2.

Comment 6

[Susie Wyshak]

Is that last problem reported major or trivial?

Comment 7

[Greg K.]

Brant, please file the problem you describe in your comment 5 (if it still
exists) as a new bug.