200935 - blank space instead of content

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Jack Tanner]

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

It's hard to describe visually what exactly is wrong, but you can tell that it's
wrong. Briefly, 1.3 fails to render the content of the page, possibly due to the
size of the page, and the vertical scrollbar grows out of all proportion to the
actual document. Sorry, don't have time to analyze this right now. Looks fine in
IE6.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.bbsinc.com/iso8859.html
2. Look at in in Moz 1.3
3. Look at it in IE6.

Comment 1

[Josh Birnbaum]

WorksForMe, Moz 1.4a on WinXP.  Looked more or less the same as with IE6

Comment 2

[Chris Casciano]

ok... i'm seeing the delayed loading of the right hand content as well... but I
don't know if its a bug, or a perf issue, of just the facts of life due to all
the included 3rd party scripts writing tables of unknown dimensions in the very
tall left column... OS X 2003040608

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

-> invalid

The whole page is a two column table. The left column contains many
<script> referencing external js files. Mozilla has to wait for these
files to load before it proceed. So it takes a lot of time for it to
get through all the Ads before the real meat on 2nd column.

On a related note, for some reason my computer can't see rcm.amazon.com
(the host of the frame ads and script) (e.g. "ping rcm.amazon.com"
returns "unknown host") but MSIE in AOL can. When I load the URL, I
see in the status bar Mozilla at least try the server three times.
Shouldn't it just give up after 1st try?

Comment 4

[Daniel Wang]

bug 200994 filed

Comment 5

[Jack Tanner]

(I'm the reporter.) Confirming that this is invalid. Regardless of
stolenclover's technical analysis, the page now loads fine.