129932 - centre frame will not display

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Czech, defect)

Description

[Mark]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020205
BuildID:    2002020516

The centre descriptive frame will not display.
The centre is just black. There should be text and graphics.
It does on NS 6.2 and IE 5.1.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. enter URL http://www.replaybank.com
2. watch
3.

Actual Results:  Center has black blank page.

Expected Results:  Dispalyed text and graphics. Use IE 5.1 or NS 6.2 to observe
results.

OS 10.1

Comment 1

[Adam Hauner]

Same on 2002030908/Win2K -> changing OS and Plat. 
BTW frame with missing column has many HTML4.0 problems in its code.

Problem is caused by HTML comments in source file. There are several comments
with bad syntax: 
<!--
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
But problem persist with IMHO better syntax:
<!--
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-->
When this type of comments was removed, page was displayed correctly.

-> Parser?

Comment 2

[Olivier Cahagne]

There's an hidden frame which loads http://www.progamers.cz/replaybank, if you
load this site, you'll notice we're in strict standards compliance mode.
The quirk/strict behaviour changed after NS6.2, hence site works with NS6.2.

Mixing strict doctype and bad comments style -> troubles, see:
http://mozilla-evangelism.bclary.com/fep/#doctype

Propose to move to Tech Evangelism.

Comment 3

[Olivier Cahagne]

Attachment: Testcase with strict mode and bad comment style (from URL)

Comment 4

[Olivier Cahagne]

Mmm... might be a parser problem after all, any SGML specialist here ?
I made a testcase with correct comment style and second line disappears if
there're  '--------------' within the comment, second line reappears if I remove
one '-' from this testcase.

Comment 5

[Olivier Cahagne]

Attachment: Testcase with correct (?) comment style but with 14 '-', does not display

Weird behaviour, if I remove one dash '-' from testcase or add one, Mozilla
displays all text again (!).

Comment 6

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

This is an error in the page, not the parser.  SGML comments start with -- and
end with --.  Reassigning for evangelism.

As an example, attachment 73450 [details]:
<!-- -------------- -->
<p>this text should be displayed</p>
</body>
</html>

is parsed as (with my comments within []):

<![start SGML processing instruction]--[start comment] --[end comment]--[start
comment]--[end comment]--[start comment]--[end comment]--[start comment]--[end
comment] --[start comment]>
<p>this text should be displayed</p>
</body>
</html>
[end of input so end comment and end SGML processing instruction]

Comment 7

[Jacek Piskozub]

-> Pavol

Comment 8

[Pavol Vaskovic]

WFM. can you verify?

Comment 9

[Olivier Cahagne]

This has been fixed by fix for bug 132785 but it's being discussed whether it's
a good decision or not.
wfm using build 2002041603 (trunk) on Win2k however.

Comment 10

[Jacek Piskozub]

The center frame is OK but I cannot see the right frame. Is this a separate problem?

Comment 11

[Olivier Cahagne]

Attachment: Screenshot with 2002041603 (trunk) on Win2k.

Notice there's an orange stripe missing, probably because of comments (see the
");//-> )

Comment 12

[Jacek Piskozub]

On a second check, everything worked (except the right orange belt). I do not
think the orange thing makes an evangelism issue. Verifying.

Comment 13

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg