247501 - Rendering of relative-width tables seems to have been changed from Mozilla 1.7RC3 to Mozilla 1.7 final

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Steven Shelton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

I have noticed an apparent difference in the way that Mozilla 1.7 renders pages
compared to Mozilla 1.7RC3. (And it's not a good difference...)

I noticed the difference on the opening page of www.GLOAMING.us
(http://www.gloaming.us/gloaming/). Under all previous versions of Mo (including
1.7RC3), under IE, and under Opera, this page renders correctly. In Mozilla 1.7
final, however, the center column extends all the way to the right side of the
screen, pushing the right-hand column to the point where it is only accessible
by scrolling to the right. The top portion of the site (where the banner ads and
such are) ends where it should, but the rest of the page continues off to the
right beyond the edge of the screen, no matter how wide you make your window.

I thought perhaps something had changed on the site, so I went to a different
computer and pulled up the site in several browsers (including 1.7RC3) and it
worked fine. I then uninstalled RC3, installed 1.7 final, and went back to the
page. Lo and behold, it was rendering improperly.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Mozilla 1.7 final
2. Go to http://www.gloaming.us/gloaming/

Actual Results:  
Improperly rendered tables cause right-hand column to appear off-screen

Expected Results:  
Rendered the page with all three columns appearing in the available screen
real-estate as a relative-width table.

Comment 1

[williambrent.boning]

I was able to reproduce this with Mozilla 1.8a2 in Windows XP. The layout was as
described above. The problem did not occur in Mozilla 1.6.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Worksforme in a current trunk Linux build...

Comment 3

[Olivier Rollet]

The same bug exists for Firefox since some versions ( 0.9 )
http://www.nofrag.com encounters the same rendering problems. The Tribune col is
frequently expanding to the right, without multi-lining the messages.
However, a simple police size change and it renders correctly 

UA :
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040714
Firefox/0.9.1+