188564 - Native widgets limited to 16bit coordinates

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Description

[earthsound]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

Note: This (the left frame of the URL above) is an *extremely* long page (10181
lines, iirc).

  When moving down that frame either by using the mouse and scrolling down, or
by using the keyboard (down arrow key, Page Down or Ctrl+End) the rendering
stops not even halfway down the page. Notice that the links are still picked up
by the mouse, but for some reason Mozilla refuses to render the code correctly. 
  Instead, it just smears the last part of the window as you keep moving down
the page. I.e., the rendering screwup changes depending on whether you're paging
down or using the mouse. Once you get to the part of the page that Mozilla
doesn't render, you can move other windows over it and see a trail effect
remaining on the bad part of the page Mozilla isn't rendering correctly. If I
scroll down to the "bad" part of the page, switch to another tab, and then
switch back to the tab with the bad page, it'll have the rendering of the former
tab on the frame that is not rendered.
  Beginning with the newsgroup jp.dev.component, the browser will not display
anything else down the page. In composer, when trying to edit the frame, it
won't render anything past internetexplorer.win95
  Because of this, it is nearly impossible to navigate their groups (and please,
no flames about trying to participate in a M$ newsgroup :P)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=mscom&slcid=US
2. in the left frame, the list of newsgroups, after it finishes loading
(warning! it will take some time to do so), scroll down the page either w/ your
mouse or keyboard
Actual Results:  
the rendering of the page will eventually get screwed up, although using the
mouse over the badly rendered areas of the page will show the correct
links...just nothing visually.

Expected Results:  
Correct rendering of page. It works fine in IE6, I don't have another browser on
this box to test

I'm on Windows XP, SP1, on a Dell OPTIPLEX GX50, with a 17" 1702FP Dell Flat
Panel monitor, 1200MHz Celeron & 256 MB of RAM. All drivers are currently
up-to-date, afaik.

Comment 1

[earthsound]

Created attachment 111217 [details]
screenshot of bad rendering of frame after jp.dev.component

Note that the mouse is hovering over the badly rendered part of the frame, but
the correct URL is shown in the status bar. :\

Comment 2

[earthsound]

Created attachment 111221 [details]
another screenshot, but showing different artifacts

Here, I switched to the tab containing the bugzilla page and then switched to
the tab containing the badly rendered frame. Notice the imagery is from the
previous tab. :\

Comment 3

[earthsound]

Created attachment 111222 [details]
the source, zipped, in text format, of the frame in question

WARNING!! It's 10181 lines long...

Comment 4

[earthsound]

Created attachment 111223 [details]
screenshot of the frame edited in composer

I saved the frame locally and then edited it with composer. Notice that it
begins the bad rendering in a different location (in the Normal tab) than the
browser does. Also notice the size of the blinking cursor next to the mouse.
That cursor grows in size the further down the badly rendered part of the page
you click with the mouse (note where in the screenshot the mouse had been
clicked).

Comment 5

[earthsound]

Created attachment 111227 [details]
another screenshot of page edited in composer

This was taken in composer, in the "HTML Tags" tab. Note that it begins the bad
rendering in a different location than the browser or composer's "Normal" tab.
Also, notice the enormous size of the blinking cursor due to clicking in the
page where the mouse is in the screenshot.

Comment 6

[earthsound]

Created attachment 111234 [details]
screenshot of page rendered in IE6

Notice that the frame is scrolled all the way to the bottom. (this screenshot
has been modified to fit the views of screen captor, and may not necessarily
reflect the actual wording found on the referenced URL)

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky, bz on IRC]]

happens on linux too; looks like coordinate space overflow...

Comment 8

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

I don't understand why you're seeing this bug in NT. NT widgets have 32-bit
coordinates. But it's pretty clear that the body (40K pixels) is overflowing the
16-bit GTK coordinates and there's not much we can do about that.

Comment 9

[earthsound]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

Robert:
  I'm not sure what you're referring to wrt the "40K pixels" but not only does
XP have this bug, but moz1.2.1 in 98 does, too. And, as you can see w/ the
screenshot, it's worse. :\ In XP, you can scroll back to the top and see the
first half of the frame, but in 1.2.1 in 98 you get crap...

Comment 10

[earthsound]

Created attachment 111928 [details]
screenshot in 1.2.1 in Windows 98

see how the whole frame is messed up, as opposed to the latter half, as in the
XP screenshots?

Comment 11

[earthsound]

Created attachment 112112 [details]
screenshot in 1.3a in Windows 98

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

Notice that you can't even see the left frame before scrolling. :(

Comment 12

[earthsound]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

Notice, that like in XP, you can click on links in Windows 98, but you cannot
see any of them, except as they appear in the status bar.

Comment 13

[earthsound]

Created attachment 112115 [details]
screenshot of frame during loading, opened in new window 

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

Screenshot of frame opened in New Window, notice that while loading it is
properly viewable through jp.dotnet...

Comment 14

[earthsound]

Created attachment 112116 [details]
screenshot of frame, after loading, opened in new window

after approx. 95% loading, the view goes from decent (see attachment 112115 [details]) to
completely fscked....

Comment 15

[earthsound]

changing hardware to All, as I see this on Intel, as well, and this doesn't
appear to be hardware-specific. Also, confirming as New, as seen in at least XP,
98 & Linux.

Comment 16

[earthsound]

seeing this is 1.3b

Comment 17

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Changing summary to reflect real problem

Comment 18

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

*** Bug 196014 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19

[earthsound]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030902
Firebird/0.6.1+, Windows 2000 Pro

seeing this in Firebird nightly

Comment 20

[Mats Palmgren (:mats)]

Isn't this a duplicate of bug 126592?

Comment 21

[Markus Wicki]

Created attachment 141958 [details]
simplified test case

I have created a simplified test case by removing all unnecessary stuff
(images, links, scripts, etc).

Please note the fact that there is no corrupted rendering if any one of the
following changes is made in the HTML source:
1) Remove a substantial number of table rows.
2) Remove the style attribute "overflow: auto;" in the BODY element.
3) Remove the style attribute "overflow: hidden" in the TD elements.

BTW: I am using the following browser version.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113.

Comment 22

[Mats Palmgren (:mats)]

Created attachment 142067 [details]
Testcase

Comment 23

[earthsound]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225
Firefox/1.0.1

This now WFM (in Firefox). As I don't use Mozilla suite anymore, someone else
should reopen this if they still hit this problem.