215221 - skymeals.com - Bad page rendering

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Mario DeFazio]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

At http://www.skymeals.com/about.html, the page rendering is incorrect,
with layers of text and images on top of one another.
The page renders properly on my system using Netscape 4.8
and MS IE 5.5

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go the the given URL
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
See problem details.

Expected Results:  
A properly rendered page.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

What happens if you save the page in WinIE and look at that version in Mozilla?
 It's serving Mozilla stuff with LAYER and ILAYER, which is Nav4.x-specific.

Comment 2

[Jesiah S]

It looks like this page is taking advantage of how IE handles height of divs and
how it handles position:absolute.
#DBStyleHTMLPassthrough2,3 should not have position:absolute so their parrent
DIVs can grow in height to the content.  #section0 should have a height of 420px
and  #section1,2 should not have its height set.

This setup should work but it is not optimal like David said, this site has old
layer tags in it.

Comment 3

[Mario DeFazio]

FYI, this problem also occurs on Win XP.

I viewed it with MS IE on Win XP, saved it to a file,
and opened the file with Mozilla.  The rendering
was still bad (the ILAYER tags were still in the the HTML source.

Also FYI, I spoke the owner of www.skymeals.com and while
he was unaware of the Mozilla rendering problem, he said the
site is due for replacement later this month (August 2003)
which may rectify the problem for users.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

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Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Thanks Mario. If the owner has any issue in the new design, it would be nice if
he would contact either me or someone at #evangelism and ask for help. Follow up
in Sept otherwise.

Comment 6

[Ben Basson]

This is resolved.

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

looks much better.

Comment 8

[Bigdata]

Hiii, It seems that Control characters like ZWNJ/ZWJ are being shown as blank boxes
(http://printablecalendarz.com/) Can those be supressed?
This does not happen with other apps that use Pango, I I think this has
something to do with mozilla.