120384 - glish.com - Menu with position="absolute" is misplaced

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect, P5)

Description

[Oliver Klee]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7+)
Gecko/20020115
BuildID:    2002011503

The menu (containing ngc, home, about, archives ...) on this page is misplaced.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit URL.
2. Scroll down to find the menu.

Actual Results:  The menu is at the very bottom, under the textarea.

Expected Results:  It should be at the top left of the canvas.

This is a regression. It worked with Mozilla 0.9.6, but broke with 0.9.7.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I think I may have seen some other bugs like this.  Anyway, ->Layout

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

does adding "top:0" to the abs pos element help?

Comment 3

[Oliver Klee]

top:0 works ok. Values other than 0 seem to be the problem (the top value is set
dynamically when the document is scrolled).

Comment 4

[Oliver Klee]

I just noticed that the menu is positioned ok while loading, but after a few
seconds suddenly jumps to the bottom.

Comment 5

[Marc Attinasi]

Moving Mozilla 1.01 bugs to 'future' milestone with priority P1

I will be pulling bugs from 'future' milestones when scheduling later work.

Comment 6

[Oliver Klee]

Still seeing this with 2002050408 Win2k trunk.

Comment 7

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 8

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

The problem seems to be that
document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(obj,'').getPropertyValue('top')
returns 'auto' which parseInt then translates to NaN which is then assigned
like so: style.top=NaN+'px'  which causes the layout problem.

There is no Layout bug here and it might be invalid.

Reassigning to DOM-land for further triage.

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yep.  This is invalid (or rather evangelism).  Computed "top" and "left" on a
non-positioned element should be the specified values, which in this case would
be "auto".

The page should be using the offset* properties for Mozilla just like it does
for IE; that's why we support them...

Comment 10

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 11

[RNicoletto]

Site is still broken + there's an ASP error: 

"Server object error 'ASP 0177 : 800401f3'

Server.CreateObject Failed

/shared/src.asp, line 5

Invalid ProgID. For additional information specific to this message please visit the Microsoft Online Support site located at: http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp. "

Comment 12

[RNicoletto]

Attachment: Site view with Firefox 3.6.9

Comment 13

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

The person who owns Glish is Eric Costello
https://twitter.com/ericost

Comment 14

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

A (by now) outdated demo of CSS-based, non-TABLE design - great for its time but not exactly a high-pri fix today, so I'll lower pri a bit ;)

Comment 15

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

This is happening in Blink and Gecko. Not a Web compatibility issue.
This page is a demo.
The site has not been updated since 2013.


WONTFIX. ^_^