198266 - Div contents do not fit and spill out

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[James Drabb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

See http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jdrabb/moz-1.3-div.html for details.
Also, here is some simple HTML to illustrate:
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jdrabb/portal-8.4-moz-1.3.html

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Got to URL's above
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Actual Results:  
Unreadable pages

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should disreagard style attributes if the content does not fit
as the other three main browsers do.  User experience is more important
then being the most standards compliant.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Actually, the site just needs to fix their broken CSS.  There's no point in
implementing CSS if we're going to do it wrong.

Comment 2

[James Drabb]

I understand your point.  However, that basically makes Mozilla
sub-optimal as a browser.  A huge majority of the sites out there
turn out **** HTML/CSS using horrible tools like front page.  While
other browser are forgiving of this, Mozilla, is not.  So Mozilla users
are left out in the cold.  A lot of corporations won't support Mozilla
because of issues like this.  The company I work for has 110,000+ employees
and they will not support any employee using Mozilla.  I have been pushing
Mozilla, but when issues like this happens, I get shot down.  Most people
say things like "Well, it works in IE, so we won't support Mozilla".
I can understand wanting to have full CSS 1/2 support, but at least give
the user an option to turn off strict CSS.  Otherwise, people are just going
to look for other browsers.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

James, IE is the _only_ browser that's "forgiving" of such CSS, and the only
reason people author it is "because it works in IE".  So our options are to make
an IE clone (why bother?) or to implement the specification and send polite mail
to authors of pages with such errors requesting that they fix them.

Comment 4

[Sébastien Delahaye]

*** Bug 202259 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***