113601 - Different handling on Windows and Linux

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[gschmidl]

The page at the above URL works as intended on the following browsers:
Netscape 4.7x on Windows; IE 5, 5.5 and 6.0 on Windows; IE 5 on MacOS and
Mozilla 0.9.6 on Windows (see http://fourcoffees.com/moz.gif for an image).

It does not, however, work correctly on Mozilla 0.9.6 for Linux (Mozilla/5.0
(X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011124), as can be seen at
http://fourcoffees.com/Xmoz.gif -- specifically, the Calendar, which uses DHTML,
is all over the place. Its source is at
http://195.3.98.252/lt_working_directory/working/navigation/calendar.js

There aren't any javascript errors, nor is "quirk mode" at fault, since adding a
transitional DOCTYPE doesn't change anything.

Comment 1

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

The connection was refused when attempting to contact 195.3.98.252.

Comment 2

[gschmidl]

Whoops, the IP has changed to 195.3.98.248 -- sorry about this.

Comment 3

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Reporter, could you please give us a working testcase that does not return a
Server Error 500 please?  There is no way for us to look at it if you block it.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Just tried the page in IE5.0/Solaris. The rendering looks identical to current
linux mozilla.

Comment 5

[basic]

as far as I can see, the url mentioned does not work in moz (latest
nightly)/winie5/opera5 . One of the big problems is that your js files are
missing and the server is redirecting to a "page not found" page without sending
a 404.

Comment 6

[Nemat Rakhmatov]

I just tried the page with Mozilla/Linux(build id: 2002012023) and IE5.5/win98.
It doesnt work as intended. Calendar is overlapping with menu on left frame.
There is a slight difference between mozilla and ie, though.

Comment 7

[Nemat Rakhmatov]

Attachment: the page rendered in mozilla/linux

Comment 8

[Nemat Rakhmatov]

Attachment: the page rendered in IE/win98

Comment 9

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Okay, this is obviously invalid then.  It looks horrible on IE too according to
the 3 previous commenters (thank you guys for testing this).

In any case, a brief glance at the code shows me statically positioned elements
in absolutely positioned elements which while fine, does not account for their
size so of course things get squished.  You should take care to always size your
absolute elements.  It appears you have some javascript missing too.

How do you expect Mozilla to render this at all?  Invalid.