260053 - javascript scrolling text flashes/flickers other areas of webpage

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 132337

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[abittner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

visit german news site

http://www.stern.de/lifestyle/leute/index.html?id=529958

there you will see on the right hand side a light pink box called
"sternshortnews"  in this box some news lines are scrolling from time to time.

on my box now there is this picture on the left side from some prince in danmark
divorcing his wife/princess whatever. the url for that picture is

http://img.stern.de/_content/52/99/529958/DENMARK_ROYAL_DIVORCE_COP80_250.jpg

in that picture the text from the right side next to the picture is
flashing/racing with the picture itself while that "shortsternews" javascript
scroller is scrolling.

the area of the picture where it reads "HAN FESTER HUN PUKLER" gets overwritten
with the again light pink box that reads "Dating .... match.com"... and some
thext reading "ShivaBi, 30 ...." and some picture of a girl beside it. that is
supposedly some advertisement box. 

well whatever, i tried to explain it the best way. maybe the site looks
different when you call it at a later time or depending of your location...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.stern.de/lifestyle/leute/index.html?id=529958
2. watch the scroller on the right side
3. see an area flickering and racing with parts of the right side being copied
to the left side of that news page

Actual Results:  
annoying flickering

Expected Results:  
page to display normally....

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Comment 1

[abittner]

just tested this on a different box with mozilla 1.7.3 suite. same stuff
happening here.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Probably the same as/related to bug 132337.

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 260233 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Bill Mason]

Not a Firefox/Website bug, in any case.

->Browser

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This bug needs a minimal testcase...

Comment 6

[Oliver Saier]

Not yet minimal, feel free to cut out.
http://users.skynet.be/bk319871/forums/flicker.html

Comment 7

[Oliver Saier]

Hum excuse me for the above bloated page, I tried to demonstrate that
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132337 occurs without iframe wheras
this one does not occur without iframe. I'll try to isolate what's causing it.

Comment 8

[Oliver Saier]

Sorry for the spam i'll try and refrain a little from now... temporarily
discarding the javascript, what's looking a bit lame to me is that both
#contMain and #contRight are set to float:left, then they essentially used
"width" to get the right content at the right of the main one.
However, if we still discard the javascript, the flickering only occurs when the
page - opened in a new window - is being resized (as J. Heria noticed), and then
we kind of get into Bug 239706 (see
http://users.skynet.be/bk319871/temp/260053-iframe.html)

Comment 9

[Philipp Hanes]

Attachment: smallish testcase

the flickering goes away with a few changes, someone else may be able to reduce
it more than I have.
what seems to be required is:
the iframe
the "position:relative" in the v_container (absolute in v_1 is optional)
the float:left of the outside div...  
and the float:left div has to enclose the other stuff

Hope this helps

Comment 10

[José Jeria]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 132337 ***