266771 - text is garbled if viewed in very narrow window

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Layout: Floats, defect)

Description

[Mattias]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Garbled text in page at http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/layout2.html. 
May be symptom of bigger problem with displaying text?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/layout2.html
2. Make the browser window about 200 pixels wide.
Actual Results:  
The first part of the text in the first red box will now be garbled

Expected Results:  
Displayed readable text

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

For some reason, the second float overlaps the first one instead of being pushed
down below it.  Minimal testcase would be nice here.

Comment 2

[Uri Bernstein]

Attachment: testcase

I made the left margin on the outer dix 500px, so you don't have to narrow your
window as much as in the original page.
Assigning widths to the inner divs makes this more impressive, but is not
necessary to reproduce (so I omitted it).
The borders, of course, are also not necessary for reproducing.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: Testcase that should not require narrowing the window

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Mats, any idea what's up here?

Comment 5

[Mattias]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Mats, any idea what's up here?

Sorry I didn't look at this bug after submitting it until I found a "My Bugs"
search feature in Bugzilla.  I have no idea what's causing it.

One clue might be if you resize Firefox to very narrow width, and then open the
page as a new tab, it still garbles the text.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Mattias, sorry about the confusion, but the question was directed at Mats
Palmgren, whom I cced at the same time...

Comment 7

[Gabriel Sjoberg]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050906
Firefox/1.4 ID:2005090616

The site mentioned in the URL works for me just fine.  The two boxes are floated
just fine.  The testcase does still overlap the 1s and 0s, however.

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

ditto on comment 7
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090305 Firefox/3.1b3

bug  310135 a dupe?