227231 - Fails to display almost all of the page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Raymond A. Chamberlin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

According to the apparently perfect results when using IE 6.0 on this page, the
latter consists, above a full-width horizontal line, of 2 logo images and 2
textual titles.  Below the line, there is a vertical list of 8 text-labeled
links at the left, with various small splotches of text and images beside to the
right of this list.  The whole page has a light gray background.

Moz 1.5 shows only a huge empty image frame above the line, starting
horizontally about midpage.  Below the line, it only shows the 8 text-labeled
links (in the same colors as IE uses), which links are active.  The page's
background shows the same light gray.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Access the page of the above URL by any means.
2. Observe Moz' imbecility.
3.

Actual Results:  
Exactly what I said above.

Expected Results:  
What should Moz have done?  Gone to Redmond, WA.US and learned something!

Expected results:  The same damn ones IE produced (or nearly so).

Netscape 4.8 is also an imbecile.  With it, the whole page has an orange (!)
background, a huge empty image frame shows at the page's top, starting at its
left margin this time.  No horizontal line shows below it, and all that shows up
below the image frame is the 8-item text-labeled link list in its proper colors
and position.

Comment 1

[Oliver Klee]

The page uses some IE-only Microsoft Office-VML stuff (which is hidden in HTML
comments). Over to Tech Evangelism.

Comment 2

[Oliver Klee]

And confirming on a recent CVS build on Linux.

Comment 3

[sjw]

Can't find anything like described in Comment 1.
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