230917 - bad HTML rendering in version 1.6b

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 230531

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[John T]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208

The elements of this page, except for the heading and sidebar, are scattered far
down on the page instead of neatly and compactly arranged. The text is probably
supposed to be wrapped, but isn't.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load the following URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3956787/
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The graphics and text (not in the heading or sidebar) are scattered far down on
the page, far apart from the other elements.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have arranged the elements of the page neatly, compactly, and
probably according to the full-window size based on the screen resolution. In my
case, it's 800x600. The home page www.msnbc.com seemed to render OK. 

                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                            I didn't see this problem in
versions earlier than 1.5. It may be that the problem is defective coding in
MSNBC's web pages. They made some changes in their style recently. If so, it
would be a standards evangelism matter.

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040114
Win98 with SP1, 800x600 screen resolution

Comment 2

[Olivier Cahagne]

Please don't open same bug report twice, update the first one with the new
information (1.6b).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 230531 ***