209351 - mozilla doesn't handle the layout of flyout menus done in javascript

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 170189

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Gordon Potter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

In mozilla this page tends have a lot of white space beofre you get to the
navigation bar with javascript flyout menus. These menus should appear neatly
nested un the various navigation elements "images", "film", "services", etc. If
you compare this page same page in IE the page looks fine. But for some reason
Mozilla create all this whitespace on the page and place the flyout menus in the
incorrect place above the navigation menu, in the center of the white space.
This may be bad javascript on the website but also may be just poor layout
rendering on mozilla's part. A lot of websites use this kind of flyout menu
system and it would be nice if mozilla supported these in a manner much more
consistent with other browsers

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/home.asp
2.Hover over "images" navigation element
3.Compare mozilla's behaviour with non-mozilla broswer such as IE.

Actual Results:  
Flyout menu system doesn't work as expected. Huge amount white space created
above page layout forcing user to scroll down to view page.

Expected Results:  
no white space above navigation elements and flyout tables nest neatly under
navigation elements.

Comment 1

[Gordon Potter]

Attachment: Expected behavior IE case screen shot

this is a screen shot of how mozilla should ideally behave on this type of page
if this bug is resolved.

Comment 2

[Gordon Potter]

Attachment: Mozilla's behavior appears buggy

This screen shot demonstrates how Mozilla behaves on the same page. This type
of behavior occurs on many sites using javascript based flyout menus. Fixing
mozilla to more gracefully handle this would be a big plus for mozilla.

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Thanks for your detailed bug report, but this is a known problem with this
site, and not a bug in Mozilla.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 170189 ***