261381 - Display of Web Page has incorrect vertical spacing

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Images, Video, and HTML Frames, defect)

Description

[Wayne O. Evans]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

I downloaded the latest version of Mozilla on 9/24/2004.  I updated my page to
include a link to download the browser.  

The display of my web page  www.woevans.com  does not display correctly.  The
virtical spacing is messed up.  If you display the same page using IE the
display is correct.   This page was created using the COFFEE CUP visual editor.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. GO TO WWW.WOEvans.com
2.
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Actual Results:  
Page displays but text is overlayed 

Expected Results:  
Should display text correctly.  Use IE to compare and see desired results

Comment 1

[Michael Ward]

It would be useful if you could isolate what is causing the problem.

Try making a copy of your page and reducing the content and/or stylesheet to a
miniumum required to recreate the effect.

It is most likely that incorrect or buggy interpretation of the standards in
Internet Explorer is casuing the page to display "correctly", and that the
Mozilla is in fact displaying the site how it should be displayed.

But it can't be confirmed either way until we have more specific details on the
problem.

Comment 2

[Ronald Tilby]

The page has a doctype specified, but fails the w3c validator (see
http://validator.w3.org).  The page also has display problems when viewed using
MSIE 6.0.
It looks like everything on the page is using absolute positioning.  I suspect
that erroneous positioning specs in the page are at least partially to blame for
the undesired rendering.  This REALLY needs a reduced testcase to be able to see
which (if any) browser is producing incorrect layout and why.

Comment 3

[jon rekai]

Is this still being observed?  The page was Last-Modified: Sat, 25 Sep 2004
17:11:39 GMT and I'm only seeing overlap due to overly large text (pt vs px
sizes in the .textstyleXX / high DPI).   Opera rendering is the same as Mozilla/FF.

On an unrelated note, two links (to the old web page and to the course
descriptions pdf) contain backslashes following the host name instead of
slashes.  (E.g. 
http://www.woevans.com\index1a.html should really be
http://www.woevans.com/index1a.html.)

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yep, the page uses pixel-positioning of objects, which means it's assuming fonts
to have a particular pixel size.... that's a bad assumption.