220569 - Left and middle column overlap on slashdot.org

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 217527

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Jim Davis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925

Text in the middle column overlaps some of the text in the left column.

I tried using the "Test Styles" bookmarklet
(http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.html#test_styles) to debug
this, and discovered that adding "table { border-width: 0px; }" makes it render
as expected -- but then it *continues* to look alright after removing the style
(until reload, anyway).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in to http://slashdot.org
Actual Results:  
Columns overlapped.

Expected Results:  
Columns shouldn't overlap.

I'm afraid this is going to turn out to be a misunderstanding of style and
layout on the parts of myself and slashdot, but I'm too clueless to find it on
my own.

Comment 1

[Jim Davis]

Attachment: Screenshot before logging in -- still a /very/ slight overlap

Comment 2

[Jim Davis]

Attachment: Screenshot after login - much more noticable

Comment 3

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 217527 ***

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1] (away from Feb 12th - Feb 22nd)]

verified.