271289 - qtccdr.com -page does not render properly, BUT it does in IE which can fix bad pages

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[roman toledo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122

this pages has for the last 3 years NEVER rendered properly in Mozilla, at the
same time it renders OK in IE 5 & 6  which seems to add the missing brackets or
whatever that is wrong with this page. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to www.qtccdr.com
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
tables? cells ? do not match with each other

Expected Results:  
to look like it does in IE.

Mozilla coders, it's time to make Mozilla a little bit more inteligent than IE
in the area of rendering broken pages

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

The layout looks fine when javascript is turned off.
This problem here is probably because of some broken browser detection script.
This is the script where the extra content is written:
http://www.qtccdr.com/support.js

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The page has explicit script that does:

if (browser is IE) {
  // Position things
} else if (browser is Netscape 4) {
  // Position things
} else {
  // Just dump them out on the page
}

Given that Mozilla is not IE and is not Netscape 4, we execute the third branch.
 Nothing about fixing up a page here; the page is _deliberately_ doing this in
Mozilla.  Just using the same code IE gets for Mozilla would fix the problem.

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.