233957 - pages fail to finish rendering, but display correctly on window resize

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 219220

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Michel Carroll]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

there are a LOT of encoding/HTML errors on this site, BUT it is very popular.
Whenever a product list appears, the page arbitrarily ceases rendering before
the end.
Curiously, resizing the browser window causes the remainder of the page to display.
I consider this to be more a bug in the site than the browser, and am reporting
it to the webmaster. However, as it has been an issue in previous Mozilla
builds, I thought it worth reporting.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the URL (wait for the "Done" message in the status bar)
2. Scroll to the bottom of the page - the table border, and often "add to
basket" graphics are clearly truncated
3. resize the window and the complete page appears - the scrollbar will jump,
showing there is suddenly a lot more to display

Actual Results:  
ONLY when you resize does the page display correctly

Expected Results:  
Bad HTML or no, the OTHER browser is prepared to let this lot render OK

I am reporting this to the site webmaster as it is clearly an issue their side
too. A syntax check in Adobe GoLive shows 200+ syntax errors, including mixing
HTML 4.01 and XHTML (yeuch!)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This worksforme in a 2004-02-03-08 SeaMonkey trunk nightly.  Is this a 1.6
broblem?  Or a FireFox problem?  Or am I just not hitting it?

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

this has been reported 8 times on dabs.com.
all were duped to bug 219220: "Table overflow is not visible"

the URL worksforme with linux trunk 20040211

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 219220 ***