268528 - Rendering issues and non-functioning links

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

The referred page was designed by an IE user with at least some thought for
other browsers.  I am not qualified to say how well, not to identify which if
any of the reported bugs it has, nor whether it reveals any new ones.
The page is, unfortunately, in an opinion-forming position.  My inability to
explain the differences eroded my credibility in spreading the Firefox message.

A quick comparison with the IE rendering reveals the layout differences.  A
check on the 'clever' links at the top of the sidebar and across the main frame
shows they work in IE but not in Firefox.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load page in IE, load page in Ff
2.Look at rendering difficulkties
3.Click on Events, Related Links, About us, Calendar, Departments etc.

Actual Results:  
Ff links don't work, layout is a mess

Expected Results:  
Would be easier to sell Ff if it worked.  Next best is to be able to say the
page is wrong html so browsers won't necessarily work - the author got it to
work with IE but not Ff

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The page uses at least some IE-specific script (see JS console when clicking on
the links), as well as some invalid CSS (negative paddings) and the like...

It may be worth breaking this bug up into separate issues for separate problems
on the site, but I have a sneaking suspicion they'll all end up invalid.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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