154759 - Overlapping text in the cell in the left column (Mozilla 1.0 - 2002053012)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect, P3)

Description

[Gautam Gopalakrishnan]

The cell in the left which displays the "Top News stories" has the text 
overlapping within the same link. Across links, the overlap does not happen.
looks ok in IE 5.5.

Comment 1

[gabriel]

Confirming with NT 1.0

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

WFM, current CVS, Linux.
(What is NT 1.0?)

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> Layout

i see it with win2k and 20020626..

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

i thought this might be a dup of bug 148399 (fixed on trunk June 14th)
Matti: Are you sure you use a trunk build?

Comment 5

[gabriel]

NT 1.0 ----> NT 3.5, mozilla 1.0 release.


Must be win32 only, I don't see the problem at home using Linux and release 1.0

Comment 6

[gavin long]

I see this too, winXP, 2002070908 trunk.  Screenshot in a mo...

Comment 7

[gavin long]

Attachment: screenshot showing problem

further notes: 

- The style sheet ( http://www.newscientist.com/css/win/ns/ns.css ) is being
sent 
with a mime type of application/octet-stream.
- the css itself looks to be tailored for Netscape 4.x, so there may be some
duff 
browser sniffing going on.

Evangelism?

Comment 8

[gavin long]

Attachment: another screenshot

ouch - never mind the articles, check out the front page - www.newscientist.com

Comment 9

[gavin long]

I can't be sure, since it's all happening server-side, but I suspect that this
is caused by bad browser sniffing, which then leads to moz being fed CSS
designed for Netscape 4.x

I think they ARE including OS in their browser sniff code, so it's possible that
Linux is being fed a different style sheet again.

-> Tech evangelism.

Comment 10

[[e-mail] (away - not reading bugmail)]

This is highly visible due to layout issues on their front page. Thank God they
are not a top-100 site :-)

Comment 11

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

this bug is due to a line height defined in CSS smaller than the font-size. In 
/css/win/ns/ns.css :

.newshomestrap {font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:70%;
line-height:75%}  
.newshomedate {font-size:70%; line-height:90%; color:#990000} 

Compare it with what IE user get :
/css/win/ie/ns.css

.newshomestrap {font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:70%;
line-height: 110%}  
.newshomedate {font-size:80%; color:#CC0000}


The server is also misconfigured and sends application/octet-stream instead of
text/css for stylesheets.

Comment 12

[Madhur Bhatia]

*** Bug 198729 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Mass reassigning English-Other bugs to general default assignees.

Comment 14

[José Jeria]

*** Bug 210347 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

WFM