208723 - wired renders incorrectly on first load, shift-reload fixes

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[David Brittain]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

When loading www.wired.com the page is rendered incorrectly until shift-reload
is pressed.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load www.wired.com
2. Page renders incorrectly with the message "Note: You are reading this message
either because you can not see our css files (served from Akamai for performance
reasons), or because you do not have a standards-compliant browser. Read our
design notes for details."
3. Press Shift reload and page renders correctly

Actual Results:  
See attachment for screenshot of incorrectly rendered page.

Expected Results:  
Render the page correctly initially.

Comment 1

[David Brittain]

Attachment: Incorrectly rendered page

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

WFM 20030605 PC/WinXP

Comment 3

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

David:
a) Is this reproducible?
b) If so, could you please go to View: Page Info and check the "Links" tab when
it occurs; does it show any links of type "stylesheet" and if so, what URLs are
they?

Comment 4

[David Brittain]

I can't reproduce it anymore.