189628 - Large space after (or before?) lines containing certain int'l chars and hyperlinks

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 113779

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Ralf Hagen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

Above picture was made using another version of Mozilla, i.e. Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01
(Compact) . However, I encountered the problem in my build too, but did not make
screenshots.
As you see, the browser splits up the page at an inline text-link; as far as I
know, only there (eg. <a href="http://www.dingo.saar.de/">My page</a>) and not
at links with images or links with a <br> tag after them.
The split really gets /huge/, and it may happen to be multiple splits in one
site (encountered at ebay.de and amazon.de), so that navigation gets impossible.

Time may have an impact on this, ie. how many tasks the browser has to do in
loading inline images or other URLs, how fast the network connection is or how
many other tasks there are on your system - I did not make that experience, but
it came out in a discussion of this problem at <news://de.comm.software.mozilla>.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Just call a website, eg. <http://www.dingo.saar.de/>, with inline links
without a <br> tag after them
2.It may help to reproduce this bug if the browser has plenty of other tasks to do.
3.If it does not happen on first try, shut down the browser and start again. It
never happened to me when the site was correctly displayed once.

Actual Results:  
At the end of the line, there was a huge split. After I marked text, I
discovered that the inline link continued below its line.

Expected Results:  
Well... cut the inline tag below its line.

There is a discussion of this problem at <news://de.comm.software.mozilla>:
Subject: "Auseinandergerissene" Seiten bei Mozilla 1.2.1 deutsch, Date: Sun, 15
Dec 2002 19:18:21 +0100, Message-ID: <atih5k$tq1$00$[e-mail]>.

Comment 1

[kai.kindereit]

I'm fighting this problem ever since 0.9x (7, I believe) on various sites but so
far without anyone being able to confirm it. In my experience there is no
identifiable reason for this behaviour, definitely not linked to an inline
text-link. Sometimes even the source-view is affected.

Another confirmation is http://www.xs4all.nl/~iot/ned/mauritius/acc/36.html
where people reported a huge split below the line starting with "La
Mediterranée". On my system (W2K, rv: 1.1) there is this split and even another
one above said line. No inline-link there.

For some time I thought the problem is allocated in table-structures but
dingo.saar.de has no such structure.

Comment 2

[Ralf Hagen]

Summary changed from "Mozilla breaks up sites at a href-tags" to "Mozilla breaks
up sites at line break"
URL changed from <http://www.dingo.saar.de/Bilder/mozbug1.jpg> to
<http://www.dingo.saar.de/mozbug1>

Comment 3

[Ralf Hagen]

<http://www.dingo.saar.de/mozbug1> updated with screenshots of this bug

Comment 4

[kai.kindereit]

After I thought this was resolved in 1.3, I found a funny thing: All over sudden
several sites showed this bug again but after rebooting the whole system it was
gone.

Somebody once suggested it might be a hardware/driver problem. This strange
behaviour might support this theory.

Comment 5

[Ralf Hagen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 113779 ***

Comment 6

[Daniel Wang]

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