271303 - display of some photos on this site differs from Internet Explorer

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Brett Salter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

In the page at http://www.sharonbailey.com/rings2.htm, the picture is displayed
further to the right than with Internet Explorer, which centers it (use back
arrow to left of photo to see where it should be).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.just go to indicated page
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Picture is displayed too far to the right.

Expected Results:  
Picture should be centered between the arrows.

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

-> Core:Layout Tables

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Testcase #1 (distilled site markup)

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Testcase #2

With cellpadding/cellspacing=0 and some measurements.

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

AFAICT from http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#auto-table-layout
the table in Testcase #2 should be 422px wide (76 + 259 + 87).

(FWIW, Opera 7.54/Linux is also 396px but it narrows cell 1 and 3 evenly)

Comment 5

[Bernd]

Mats, so the bug is invalid?

Comment 6

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Mats, so the bug is invalid?

No, the CSS2.1 spec says the table should be 422px AFAICT.  So, if that means
anything to us it's a valid bug. (None of IE/Opera/Moz follow the spec here so
one might argue it's a bug in the spec. - or I have simply misunderstood
what the spec says).

On the other hand, if we want to follow IE/Opera we should try to steal
422-396 pixels "evenly" from the columns that has MEW < specified size (cell 1
and 3 here). I checked how Opera implements "evenly" breifly, it seems it's
based on the relative "specified size - MEW" for the columns.
(bug 243037 looks very similar)

Comment 7

[Bernd]

we render this like IE and webkit, marking wfm, please reopen if you still see a problem here