109887 - match.com - Table reflows after page load for unknown reason

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

This was originally reported in http://bugscape.netscape.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10785

Steps to reproduce:

1. 
http://www.match.com/doubleblind/showprofile.asp?UserID=464348464A4F4D&trackingid=0

2. Reload the page and watch the layout of the page change as the page finishes
loading.

Expected result: page loads in table 780 pixels wide.

Actual result: after pages loads the table reflows, expanding the center portion
of the table.

Reproducible on Trunk builds (Gecko/20011108 for example) and NS6.2 RTM but not
on NS6.1.

This page consists of a set of nested tables. While there are some validation
errors, they do not appear to be the cause of the problem. Removing the table
containing the "About his matches" section will result in the table laying out
ok, but I can not find a reason for this to happen. It appears that this may be
caused by an actual bug rather than an "evangelism issue".

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

ccing susie and doron

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Attachment: reduced example from doron

Comment 3

[Susie Wyshak]

I discovered an interesting phenomenon:

1. Click More Photos
2. Use Back button to get back to profile
Result: Page layout lays out correctly

1. Click More Photos
2. Use Return to Profile link
Result: Page layout is misaligned

Comment 4

[karnaze (gone)]

Temporarily moving to future until a milestone can be assigned. 

Comment 5

[anthonyd]

changing the user agent string to IE's will sovle the problem. bad sniffing or 
js or something, over to evang.

Comment 6

[anthonyd]

reassigning to evang

Comment 7

[Susie Wyshak]

Does anyone here have a clue which fix fixed this problem? 
Per Bob Clary - it was not fixed in 2002 01 11 03 and was in 2002 01 13 08 so
the fix is between there. 

Comment 8

[Susie Wyshak]

WHOOPS - Turns out neither Bob nor I have seen this fixed, by changing the UA
string to IE 5.5 on any builds. 

Anthony please give us steps to replicate.

Comment 9

[anthonyd]

hi, the pref I used was this:
pref("general.useragent.override","Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 
NT 5.0)")

and I placed it int he all.js and commented out the other one.

hope that helps.

Comment 10

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

I used Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 95) and see the reflow in
recent trunk builds. Did you wait until the page had *completely* loaded ?

Comment 11

[anthonyd]

ok, im not seeing a *complete* reflow.  I DO see the contents shift (depending 
on the user agent string).  I will build a debug build and test this with paint 
flashing to verify if it is a reflow or not.

anthonyd

Comment 12

[Susie Wyshak]

Marking FIXED. 
As you can see by pasting the URL above into the browser, Match.com has fixed
the profile reflow problem. 

Comment 13

[Brant Gurganus]

Verified
2002041903/WinXP