179841 - The links on the right hand side, to AP and UPI news stories, take too much space

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 33784

(Core :: Layout: Block and Inline, defect)

Description

[Greg Dougherty]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

In the page at http://www.washtimes.com/, text in the right hand column does not
fit into a single line under Mozilla.  It does under Communicator 4.79 and
earlier.  It should.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.washtimes.com/
2: View the page

Actual Results:  
See bug details, above.

Expected Results:  
Displayed one link per line, without the excessive white space between links

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Please read the component descriptions.... Complex Text Layout has nothing to do
with this page or any other page written in English.

The markup there is:

<td>
<a>
<p>text</p>
</a>
</td>

And the <p> has a margin.  We have a quirk for <p> being the first thing in a TD
to have no margin, but in this case, it's not the first thing.

To layout to decide whether we want to try to make that quirk even more quirky o
just send this to evangelism.

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

dbaron: one way to fix this would be to change our quirk so that instead of the
masses of CSS rules in quirk.css, we just changed the margins of <p>, etc, to be
in a different set of units, e.g., _moz_quirky_em, which we then say acts like
an 'em' in all cases except in quirks mode at the top of a block.

Either that or we could WONTFIX this bug.

Comment 3

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

That and other solutions have been discussed in the proper place.  Please
discuss there if you want...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33784 ***