223034 - alcatel.com- Truncated text on left side table column

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Theblueman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031020
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031020

Text is truncated on the left side column

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to http://www.alcatel.com/
2.notice the text on left side is truncated
3.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

WFM 20031019 PC/WinXP

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The site has (the style is not inline, but that doesn't really matter):

<ul style="margin-left: -29px; padding-left: 0">
  <li style="margin-left: 0">
    Text
  </li>
</ul>

In mozilla, this positions "Text" 29px off the left edge of wherever the <ul>
would normally start.  In IE, it should do the same; if it does not, that's a
bug in the CSS implementation in IE.

This is an evangelism issue -- the site is just relying on an IE bug.

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Actually, they are working around something in Linux. You don't see this in
Mozilla on Windows, but do if you change the ua to Mozilla on Linux. They then
load http://www.alcatel.com//comps/css/style-ix-nav.css

contact info http://www.alcatel.com/contactus/contactform.jhtml

Comment 4

[Theblueman]

I'm Using the build from Oct 19 on Linux and the page is displaying properly. 
The problem seems to be corrected.  I'm going to close this bug.