226156 - Table data displayed incorrectly (in comparison to IE)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[steve herfst]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

In comparison to Internet Explorer 5.5, some of the table widths and height
aren't displayed in the correct dimensions.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.load URL (listed above)
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Table displayed with incorrect dimensions

Expected Results:  
Loaded the table with the correct dimensions (use IE as a reference)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> (use IE as a reference)

That's quite impossible, since I have no access to a computer that runs IE... 
Could you please clearly describe the problem or post a screenshot of the IE
rendering?

In any case, this is very unlikely to be parser and very likely to be related to
the fact that this "html" is produced by MS Word....

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

IE displays incorrectly in comparison to Opera and Mozilla, and I just guess,
all  other browsers.
Workaround: Zoom with CTRL++, or use View->Textzoom->Larger

Comment 3

[steve herfst]

Attachment: Shows problem with interpretation of table for MSY homepage

I'm pretty sure that this table is dynamically generated each time. Each column
should be of a uniform width as that shown in the first and last column.

Comment 4

[Hermann Schwab]

It is a MS Word document, have a look at the source code View->PageSource
Font size is specified as 6 point, that is what you see.
Workaround: specify a minimum font size, maybe 12, in your preferences,
Edit->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts   Minimum font size: 12

cut from the source:

<td width=196 valign=top style='width:146.8pt;border:none;border-right:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;
  mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
  <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:8.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly'><b
  style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:6.0pt;
  font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>80G 7200rpm / SATA
  Seagate “Hot”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
  </td>

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

steve, could you please attach a screenshot of what IE shows like I asked you to?

Comment 6

[Malcolm Rowe]

The reason that some of the table cells expand in Mozilla is because of two
cells with contents with style='margin-left:252.0pt; text-indent:-252.0pt;'.

In IE, these style rules do not cause the cells to expand - in Mozilla they do.

Comment 7

[Malcolm Rowe]

Attachment: Minimal testcase

Here's a minimal testcase. In IE, this displays as a shrink-wrapped cell, just
wide enough for the contents. In Mozilla, the cell is significantly expanded.

Comment 8

[Malcolm Rowe]

So it looks like the width of the cell is being calculated as min(margin-left +
text-indent + <text-width>, margin-left). This may very well be correct.

Comment 9

[Malcolm Rowe]

s/min/max in my last comment, of course.

Comment 10

[steve herfst]

Attachment: IE table width displayed (IMO correctly)

Here's the correct display for IE.

Comment 11

[Malcolm Rowe]

That's certainly the /intended/ display, for sure. Whether it's the /correct/ 
display will depend on what the correct rendering of attachment 136408 [details] is.

Comment 12

[Malcolm Rowe]

According to bz and dbaron, we're doing the right thing. The content box width
can't be less than zero, so it has to be zero. The width of the table cell is
equal to the margin width plus the content box width (zero), so our rendering is
correct.

-> evang

Comment 13

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

display is broken in IE6 as well -> invalid