Closed
Bug 115534
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 23 years ago
dzm.com - "Definition" list layed out inconsistently with Netscape Communicator
Categories
(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: jmccabe, Assigned: bc)
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Details
Attachments
(4 files)
A definition list will layout inconsistently between modern builds of Mozilla and Netscape's Communicator 4.x browser. <dl> <dt> Foobar <dd> A misc token used to represent any data </dl> Will render as: Foobar A misc token used to represent any data in Moz 2001121408, but will render as: Foobar A misc token used to represent any data in Communicator. Screenshot attached showing inconsistency in action.
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Comment 1•23 years ago
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Comment 2•23 years ago
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This is probably invalid or evangelism but since NS4 displays it properly, I will confirm it. It seems that nearly every single <font> tag has no complimentary </font> Running tidy on the page to close out the <font> tag mess gets it to display properly.
Comment 3•23 years ago
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Comment 4•23 years ago
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->Evang
Component: Layout → English: US
Product: Browser → Tech Evangelism
Version: other → unspecified
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Comment 5•23 years ago
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OK - I've played with the test case a bit and have come up with exactly reproducable results and rules: 1) Caused by unclosed font tag 2) List _must_ be in a table What this means is that an unclosed font tag will not cause the bad formatting if the list is not inside a table. Attaching sample HTML that shows problem. Same test case repeated twice - once in a table and once not.
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Comment 6•23 years ago
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Comment 7•23 years ago
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Previous example had incorrectly closed <table> tag that prevented display in Communicator. Revised HTML displays correctly in Communicator. This should obsolete the previous attachment (61985).
Comment 8•23 years ago
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jmccabe, this can be either evangelised or marked as a dupe of bug 5119. Right now it is marked for evangelism. The unclosed <font> is illegal in HTML and when we hit this, the <dd> is no longer within a <dl> but a <font> instead. The quirk for this is bug 5119 which used to work but does no longer. It is marked P5 future so it won't be fixed anytime soon unless the site author fixes his page. Re-assigning to default evangelism owners. My attachment 61911 [details] is the fixed version of the site.
Assignee: attinasi → bclary
QA Contact: petersen → zach
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Comment 9•23 years ago
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I understand that this is being treated as an evangelism issue. I disagree with this, but that's not my call. I admit that the unclosed <font> tag is illegal HTML, but the fact of the matter is that IE and Communicator render the layout correctly. It seems to me that this should be a defect given that Mozilla correctly lays out the illegal HTML _unless_ it is in a table cell.
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Comment 10•23 years ago
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harish, shouldn't we handle this kind of broken markup better in quirks mode ? Seems that there are sufficient hints to tell the parser when to close the open tags and such. What do you think?
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Updated•23 years ago
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Summary: "Definition" list layed out inconsistently with Netscape Communicator → dzm.com - "Definition" list layed out inconsistently with Netscape Communicator
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Comment 11•23 years ago
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Removed "dzm.com" from Subject and URL: field. Site owner has corrected HTML to lay out correctly.
URL: http://www.dzm.com/
Summary: dzm.com - "Definition" list layed out inconsistently with Netscape Communicator → "Definition" list layed out inconsistently with Netscape Communicator
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Comment 12•23 years ago
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Joe, when you take over Tech Evangelism for English US then you can manage your bugs anyway you please. But as long as I have this bug then don't re-edit my bugs. per comments -> fixed.
URL: http://www.dzm.com/
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Summary: "Definition" list layed out inconsistently with Netscape Communicator → dzm.com - "Definition" list layed out inconsistently with Netscape Communicator
Comment 13•23 years ago
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Site looks ok in mac bits from 12/19/2001. Verif
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Updated•9 years ago
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Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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