20184 - Mozilla.org page doesn't render properly

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Rod Vagg]

Just a minor bug..
Upon displaying http://www.mozilla.org, the longest link on the link section on
the left side is 'Developer Docs'. This renders in Mozilla as 'Developer Dos'.
I'm using BuildID: 1999112408.

Comment 1

[troy]

Huh, looks just fine to me with my build

Comment 2

[Rod Vagg]

Ok, now I have build 1999112808 and it's still there<br>(Portion of screenshot
sent to troy)

Comment 3

[Rod Vagg]

Now an additional problem that I didn't notice before.. On the middle box on
the mozilla.org front page there is a link to 'more' down the bottom. In my
other browsers it comes up OK as 'more...' but in mozilla it comes up
as 'mor...'. The other 2 boxes produce 'more...' though.

Comment 4

[leger]

Clearing WORKSFORME resolution due to reopen.
petersen, can you try to reproduce please?  Thanks!

Comment 5

[troy]

Re-assigning bug to QA, because I can't reproduce the bug and so there's nothing
I can do with it.

If you can narrow down on what platforms this happens and get a reproducible
test case then it can get looked at

Comment 6

[Rod Vagg]

OK, after testing this on my work machine and thinking about the difference
between the two I can only come up with the link speed..
Using VMWare and native windows at work the page displays just fine but at home
I still get the 'Developer Dos' and I noticed that when loading the page here it
does it fairly quickly but at home it does it bit by bit. I have a direct
connection here and a 56K at home which I suppose would explain the difference,
we also have to use a proxy here so that may speed delivery up.
When it builds the page at home you see the first part of the box on the left
appear and eventually it's all there, the width changes as longer text gets
there bug the 'Developer Dos' is always wrong as if it hasn't figured out what
width it really needs to be.

Comment 7

[Rod Vagg]

I just sent an email to troy showing the first try at rendering the page I
always get that shows 'Developer Do' then it always goes to 'Developer Dos'

An extra bit of interesting information is that it displays fine on all the menu
items down the side of mozilla.org except for the following:
"Module Owners" ('Developer Dos')
"Get the Source" ('Developer Doc')

It appears that the difference is where the first render is, with the problem
pages it's always at that line that it renders up to with the others it's either
just before that line or after the first two lines.. And it's always the same! I
can't get it to do anything else.
Hope this helps..

Comment 8

[leger]

Updating engineer...it should not be me..yikes :-(

Comment 9

[troy]

There's a reason the bug was assigned to you. Please read the comments...

Comment 10

[ckritzer (gone)]

Currently blocked by 24061.

Comment 11

[Christine Hoffman]

Using the 01-18-00 build on Win98, cannot duplicate this bugs. 'Developer Docs'
renders properly upon page loading. WORKSFORME.

Comment 12

[ckritzer (gone)]

'Ponst thinking more about the bug...
My last comments were based on Commercial build (the Mozilla build works fine)
and since the rendering is not going to be different between the two, I'm
marking this VERIFIED WORKSFORME.

If anyone (Bueller?) feels this is incorrect, please mark the bug appropriately.

Comment 13

[ckritzer (gone)]

Marking VERIFIED.

Comment 14

[Rod Vagg]

OK, this has been fixed for me for a while now on the machine that originally
had this problem but now with a nightly build from a few days ago I occasionally
get the whole sidebar collapsing so it has about 2ps between it's borders
without any text in it -- this happens after the thing has rendered and happens
on various mozilla.org pages.. Anyone want me to attach a screenshot?