114341 - ggnxp.com - This page looks bad in Moz/NN

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Eugene Savitsky]

Red comments on
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-3364665-601-8105033.html?tag=st.dl.3364665.&tag=st.dl.3364665-100-8105033.dir.3364665-601-8105033

Found this one: 

"to reach MSIE 5+ stability and features... i'm a student website developer and
use various browsers to test my websites. only MSIE 5+ does interprete HTML-code
correctly. or should i say most correctly? for example: my personal website
[http://www.ggnxp.com/] is tested by W3C Validator [http://validator.w3.org]
that i is in fact HTML 4.01! only MSIE 5+ shows the page as it was meant... NS
6+ doesn't."

I couldn't see it in IE (it promt's me for saving smth and does not shows it...
:) ) But in Opera 6.0 it looks different.

moz 2001120908

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

There are two issues here:

1) IE paints table background in the gaps between cells.  This is incorrect.
   Mozilla correctly paints the col background instead.

2) Mozilla does not do column-level alignment.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 915 ***

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

reopening.  Just read bug 915 again and this is evangelism.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The CSS spec is very clear.  The only properties that apply to col and colgroup
elements are border, background, width, and visibility.

The page expects text-align and vertical-align applied to a col to apply to the
cells.  This is not going to happen, as this would directly contradict the CSS2
specification.

Comment 4

[Georg Gruber]

someone mailed me this...

<col style="text-align: right; vertical-align: top; text-align: right;
             font-style: italic; color: #00FF00; background: #111111;">

If you look at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/tables.html#q4, the CSS2 
specification explicitly states that the only properties that have an 
effect when applied to <col> or <colgroup> are "border", "background", 
"width", and "visibility".  I was just wondering why you're applying 
text-align, vertical-align, and font-style to the <col>.....

note: valdiator.w3.org doesn't find this... and gives no message whether this 
is an error...

Comment 5

[Georg Gruber]

i think the problem (that was a coding error on my page) IS SOLVED...

thanks to everyone for the cooperation!

i enjoyed your help and support.
best,
   Georg.

Comment 6

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

fixed it is

Comment 7

[Brant Gurganus]

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