246875 - Mozilla Update renders poorly in Internet Explorer

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 249787

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[Reyad Attiyat]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/4.0

In the page http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/?application=mozilla The side 
menu has not been aligned correctly and makes it difficult to read the 
descriptive text. This has only happened in Internt Explorer.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Simply go to the URL in Internet Explorer



Expected Results:  
Internet Explorer

Comment 1

[Wolf [:wolf]]

The CSS needs to be fixed up for Internet Explorer, so the site renders the same
as Mozilla.

Known Bug, so confirming.

Comment 2

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Maybe this can be of help:  http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/

An excerpt from the overview:

IE7 invokes a DHTML behavior to load and parse all style sheets into a form that
Explorer can understand. You can then use most CSS2 selectors without having to
resort to CSS hacks.

The behavior is lightweight and is automatically loaded via a CSS inclusion. No
alteration of your original document is necessary. Nor do you have to alter your
CSS.

Comment 3

[Neil Parks]

(In reply to comment #2)
> IE7 invokes a DHTML behavior to load and parse all style sheets into a form that
> Explorer can understand. You can then use most CSS2 selectors without having to
> resort to CSS hacks.

But will that help users of IE 6?

Comment 4

[Neil Parks]

I think the "severity" level should be upgraded.  It may seem "minor"
considering that 99 percent of all visitors to this site will be using Moz or
FF.  But there will be some people using MSIE for browsing and Tbird for email,
and they need to be able to download extensions and themes.  

Comment 5

[Wolf [:wolf]]

That's known, but this is still a minor bug WRT priority.. I will attempt to fix
this though. no matter the priority or severity.

Comment 6

[Aaron Kaluszka]

Neil: If you read the overview for "IE7" you'd see it's a set of files that
provide CSS2 support for IE 5.0+
It is still in alpha, however, and doesn't support DOM changes, so it may or may
not be usable.

Comment 7

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

The CSS validator also caught a couple of typos: "posistion", "repeax-x".
(Ignore the errors about moz specific issues and the error immediateley after
that - the validator itself is buggy).

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fupdate.mozilla.org%2Fextensions%2F&usermedium=all

The HTML validator complained about the raw usage of '&' in URLs, a total of 214
times. While this does not affect the layout it should be easy to fix.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fupdate.mozilla.org%2Fextensions%2F 

Comment 8

[Wolf [:wolf]]

This bug is now a dupe of Bug 249787, but i'm not going to mark it as such, to
keep more dupes from occuring. (The other bug is in the browser-general component). 

Any work will be done on that bug. and this will be resolved as a dupe of that
when it's fixed. :-)

Comment 9

[Wolf [:wolf]]

Er, I'll go ahead and dupe this. to get it off my list. :-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249787 ***