117295 - cnn.com - non-standard comments in strict mode wrecking page layout

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Shawn Augsburger]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221
BuildID:    2001122106

In this page the layout is incorrectly rendered.  Items such as the top stories
belong on the right appear lower in the page, and the image above the featured
story doesn't appear.  The page loads properly in IE 5.5 and Opera 6.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to http://fyi.cnn.com/fyi/teachers.ednews/ in mozilla.
2.compare what mozilla how renders the page with IE or Opera.
3.wonder why this specific page doesn't work.

Actual Results:  The page renders incorrectly.

Expected Results:  The page layout should be correct.

Comment 1

[gavin long]

I think this page is suffering the same fate as the page mentioned in bug 117191
: The DTD is triggering standards-mode rendering, but there are non-standard
HTML comments in the source, e.g.:

<!----------------------------------------------->
<!----------------- Left Side ------------------->
<!----------------------------------------------->

[this comment appears immediately before the missing content at the top of the
center column]

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

You are right Gavin. See bug 102127 for details on comment syntax.
Reassigning to Evangelism.

Comment 3

[gavin long]

Changing summary accordingly, adding top100

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

taking

Comment 5

[Daniel Wester]

Comments altered

Comment 6

[gavin long]

Yup, that page is now looking much happier in Moz.  Fixed?

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

-> fixed

Comment 8

[Brant Gurganus]

Verified
2002022203/WinXP