258116 - mozillastore.com - Text overwritten in fixed size window

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Peter Kirk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

It is perhaps embarrassing to you that I have to report one of Mozilla's own web
pages. But this one exhibits a problem which is far too common with many pages.
It seems that a fixed size window is declared and two or more text elements are
positioned within it, but there is not space in the window for all the elements
and so they are rendered on top of one another. Maybe this is a bug in the
program, but if so it is one which I would expect Mozilla's own pages to work
around.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Go to http://www.mozillastore.com/.
Actual Results:  
Renders "Best Value, $14.95" on top of "CD includes Mozilla 1.7 and previews of
Firefox and Thunderbird."

Expected Results:  
Render "Best Value, $14.95" separate from and below "CD includes Mozilla 1.7 and
previews of Firefox and Thunderbird."

I have a high resolution laptop monitor which is set for more than the standard
number of pixels per inch.

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

Looks to me like actual was intended, as often happens in print advertising in
the USA.

Comment 2

[Peter Kirk]

Attachment: www.mozillastore.com displayed by Mozilla 1.7.2

Comment 3

[Peter Kirk]

Attachment: www.mozillastore.com displayed by IE6

Comment 4

[Peter Kirk]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Looks to me like actual was intended, as often happens in print advertising in
> the USA.

In that case the nicer looking display I get with IE6 is unintended. See the
attachments I have just uploaded.

Comment 5

[Felix Miata]

Using OS/2 trunk at 120 DPI what I see is similar to attachment 158102 [details] except
that the red text is canted 20 degrees or so counterclockwise.

Conforming summary to item 10 at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

The Mozilla Store has been redesigned, so this bug is now invalid.