155718 - evite.com - Login box positioned incorrectly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Erin Dalzell]

The login box overlaps the banner. In IE it looks fine.

MacOS 9.2.2, 1.1Alpha build.

Comment 1

[Justin Watt]

I think you should complain to evite.com (not mozilla.org).

This is probably an ultra complex table layout issue. I looked at the source and
turned green.

Anyway on Windows 2000, it didn't look that bad in Moz 1.1a as compared to IE 6..
http://www.unc.edu/~jwatt/mozilla/155718/test.html

Just some things were a little off-center.

Comment 2

[Erin Dalzell]

OK then, if it looks fine on Windows, but not on the Mac, then this is not an
evite.com issue. I would be happy if it looked the same on the Mac as it does on
my Windows box. Maybe a Mac/Layout issue?

Comment 3

[Erin Dalzell]

Attachment: Screen snapshot

Comment 4

[Greg K.]

Almost certainly a Tech Evangelism issue. Erin, the reason it looks different in Mozilla on Mac and 
Windows is that they have a bunch of browser and platform detection JavaScript going on and 
they display their page differently depending on the results.

Unfortunately, it appears they're assuming all Mac users are using either IE 5 or Nav 4, and 
make no concession to Mozilla at all. Typical boneheaded web engineering. A room full of 
monkeys could do as well.

Adding qawanted. Needs further anaylsis/reduction.

Comment 5

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

as far as I see this code looks ok (?)

Comment 6

[Nick Bebout]

Appears to be a valid bug.. Has been marked confirmed

Comment 7

[Frankie]

Evite has changed their layout. The new look works for me in Win98 and OSX.
Could someone test it in Classic Mac?

Comment 8

[Frankie]

cleaner layout, no positioning problem.