270201 - ebay.com - in IE page has scrolling text. In Mozilla that text is all over the place.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P2)

Description

[A Gibot]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=8145627667&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT

In IE XP home. This page displayes correctly, but it doesn't display properly in
firefox 1.0 The scrolling red text works properly in IE, but in firefox, the red
text is all over, even overlapping text.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open the page in IE for xp home. It looks fine.
2.Now open it in firefox 1.0. I looks wrong. The red text is everywhere.
3.

Actual Results:  
The text is shown properly in IE, and it's shown improperly in firefox.

Expected Results:  
What IE did. Display the text properly.

I'm not sure.

Comment 1

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

This page (or rather this script: http://www.doctorps2.com/feedback.js ) uses
proprietary IE-Only style.pixelTop property instead of the standard property
style.top=value+"px";

Confirming and moving to Technology Evangelism, this is not a problem in
Firefox, it's the site's fault.

Comment 2

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

-> [e-mail], setting priority to p2, updating summary to
conform to our guidelines.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

fixed (dead url)