269096 - Javascript incorrectly briefly returns a floated element to it's natural position.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Opera/7.54 (Windows NT 5.1; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

When a client-side script updates a floating element, the floating element 
briefly goes to it's natural position before returning to it's correct position. 
 In the case of frequent updates such as Javascript's onTimeout() function, this 
produces a flickering effect.  This error has been reproduced with Firefox 1.0, 
Mozilla 1.7.2, and Netscape 7.1 on Windows and Linux.  Test pages have been 
valid XHTML 1.1 and Javascript has been the scripting language.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Be sure Javascript is enabled in a Mozilla browser
2.Navigate to http://****.teamm3.com/mozillaBug.xhtml
3.

Actual Results:  
A flickering effect as described in the Details section of this report.

Expected Results:  
The floated element should remain in it's proper floating position.  It should 
never return to it's natural position (the position it would take if not 
floating)

Comment 1

[Gary van der Merwe]

I see this with 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
but not with
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041110
Firefox/0.9.1+

Which means that it has been fixed in the trunk.

Comment 2

[Gary van der Merwe]

Bug 238493 Fixed this

Marking as fixed, and depends on Bug 238493