113001 - text ads in gray boxes not rendered correctly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[kyles]

Build ID: 2001112903

cnn.com has some text ads (4) in the upper right corner that are shown as links
on a reclight gray background.  I've seen at least two variations on the
incorrect rendering.  On the main page, the text does not appear, and the
rectangular background for each link is an incorrect size, almost appearing as
lines.  On another page,
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/11/30/american.airlines.incident/index.html
the boxes appear to be the correct size, but still no links.

Comment 1

[Shotaro Kamio]

WFM in 2001113006/Linux.
please attach the screenshot.

Comment 2

[Karl Johan Kleist]

Attachment: (partial) screendump using Mozilla

Note that the banner ad to the left of the crippled gray boxes is missing.

Comment 3

[Karl Johan Kleist]

Attachment: (partial) screendump using Opera 5

Note the banner ad to the left of the gray boxes.

Comment 4

[Kyle Saunders]

It does work as expected with a previous build, 2001112603.

Comment 5

[gavin long]

WFM, win98SE, 2001112903.

N.B.: those links with grey backgrounds (along with the banner to the left of
them) are being written dynamically by some rather hairy javascript, located in
the file http://ar.atwola.com/file/adsWrapper.js, which I won't even pretend to
understand, and which is client-sniffing in ways I can't cope with this late in
the evening (it's 12:30 am in the UK about now, folks).

Given that the problem appears to affect all four links _and_ the banner to the
left, I'd like to ask 2 questions :

1) the dumb, blindingly obvious question : do those of you experiencing problems
have javascript disabled?

2) the not so dumb question : are you masking/altering your user-agent string in
any way?

Comment 6

[Andrew Hagen]

This is either a dupe of bug 112740, or bug 112740 is a dupe of this one.

I can confirm this problem on Win98 SE, Mozilla 0.9.6 Build ID: 200120403, ATI
graphics adapter.

Let's either confirm this one, or exile it to tech evangelism for the bad
JavaScript.

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->layout

Comment 8

[John Morrison]

*** Bug 112740 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Tim Johnson]

The text links in the reclight gray background, and the long vertical ad image
which is placed just below are now appearing in the 2001120808 build.

However, the progress bar still never goes to 100% and the throbber still
throbs. According to Naviscope, the browser is still "Waiting for a Response".

Comment 10

[Tim Johnson]

In the 2002010303 build (and perhaps earlier), we seem to have a regression in 
that the text links in the reclight gray background, and the long vertical ad 
image which is placed just below are now no longer being displayed.

Comment 11

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Works fine using 2002012203 build on WINXP

Comment 12

[Tim Johnson]

Nope. It's still not working right. I just installed the 2002012503 build and if
you pick links from the center panel, for instance the headline article, you
will see that the text links in the reclight gray background, and the long
vertical ad 
image which is placed just below are still not being correctly displayed.
Compare to the same page in Netscape 4.75. I'm running on WinXP home edition.