202547 - DHTML covers text on webpage

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Block and Inline, defect)

Description

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

go to
http://eg.washingtonpost.com/profile/796817/?&flavor_id=5&context=bars_nightlife

notice that the "search" floater covers the name and address of the club. it
renders fine in safari with no overlap.

this bug has been around for a while (though i'm using trunk bits now, it's on
the 1.0 branch too) but i'm only now just getting around to reporting it. sorry.

Comment 1

[Chris Casciano]

-> All/All I'm seeing this on win2k 2003041416 as well

IE win seems to wrap the go button to the next line keeping the div at the
expected width... don't really have time to look at the markup right now

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

Looks like Evangelism bug to me. The dropdowns are wider for Mozilla and
stretches the menu over the text. 
In IE the page reloaded over and over again when using the menu...

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this still a problem on that web page?  If so, could you point me to the
place where the overlap happens (or post a screenshot)?

Comment 4

[Chris Casciano]

Attachment: screenshot

yes... this is still the case with win2k 2003042208... see the comparison to
IE6/Win

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Ah, ok.  That entire search bar does not appear on Linux... I think
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/entertainment/javascript/browser_checker.js
pretty much explains why (and note that they are sizing things differently and
using different HTML for the 4 browsers they check for.... so this is likely to
be evang).

Comment 6

[Hermann Schwab]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030607
tested with URL above, and opening the tab 'Entertainment' on todays copy.

Comment 7

[Chris Casciano]

yes... WFM Mozilla wink2k 2003042208 (wow i need to update this windows box)...
all kinda of text zoomming kept the boxes together.

resolving WFM