27613 - [LAYER]Tables aren't being painted

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P1)

Description

[Charles Mak]

Overview: Tables aren't being painted.

Steps to Reproduce: goto the url

Actual Results: notice that certain tables are not being shown

Expect Results: all tables should be drawn

Build: 2000-0212-16 on Windows NT (sp6)

Additional Information: this is not a problem in M13.

Comment 1

[Christian Mattar]

I don't see any problems on Win98 2000021108. Could you point to a specific page 
 of MSNBC or provide a screenshot displaying the problem?

Comment 2

[Charles Mak]

Attachment: Comparison Screenshot

Comment 3

[Christine Hoffman]

Looks like problems with tables in LAYER tag. Marked Summary field.

Comment 4

[karnaze (gone)]

Eric, what is the deal with layer.

Comment 5

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

INVALID. LAYER, ILAYER, document.layers[] not supported in Gecko/Seamonkey. 
Closed. Notified site owner (twice) and also reporter via template at 
http://sites.netscape.net/ekrock/fixit/layer.html
In the future, if possible, please INVALID, notify, and close such bugs directly 
using that template without assigning to me. Thanks!

Comment 6

[Christine Hoffman]

Verified invalid.

Comment 7

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Moving all [LAYER] bugs to Evangelism component for tracking and open-source
evangelism by mozilla community members of sites that need to upgrade to support 
web standards such as HTML 4.0 (instead of LAYER/ILAYER) and the W3C DOM
(instead of Nav4 document.layers[] or IE document.all()). Sites should be
lobbied to do the upgrade using the email templates that are linked to from
http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/bugathon.html#layerbugs . When a site's owner
has confirmed receipt of the message requesting an upgrade, the bug should be
marked with the keyword evangelized to indicate that evangelism for that bug is
complete. When the site finishes the upgrade and supports standards, the bug
should be closed.

Comment 8

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Marking bug evangelized and clearing cc:s as courtesy to reduce spam.

Comment 9

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

SPAM:Changing QA contact on 111 evang bugs as I am now the new QA contact for 
this component.

Sorry about the spam

zach

Comment 10

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning Evangelism bugs to me, the component's new owner.  I would like to 
take this opportunity to thank [e-mail] for all of his dedication, 
contributions, and hard work, and wish him luck at his new job.  Thanks, nobody.

Comment 11

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Removing the evangwanted keyword from 49 evangilizm bugs that also 
have the evangelized keyword. Having both of these keywords on a bug 
makes it really hard to do a query for all open evangilizm bugs that are 
evangwanted. Sorry for the spam.

Comment 12

[Blake Ross]

-> [e-mail] for my evangelism bugs.

removing the now-depreciated evangelism-related keywords.

setting platform to All.

Comment 13

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning evangelism bugs to [e-mail].

Comment 14

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

still seeing large while sploches here.

Comment 15

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

This site does not properly detect Mozilla or Netscape 6 and uses Navigator 4
properietary layer api. Contacted via web form at
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/feedback/techsup.asp and via email to
[e-mail].

Comment 16

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

This site has upgraded their menu system to use dom 1 methods for it's menu
system and no longer has javascript errors in the page related to the
proprietary navigator 4 api.

They do still have javascript bugs unrelated to supporting Mozilla such as

Warning: test for equality (==) mistyped as assignment (=)?
Source File: http://www.msnbc.com/tools/nm/nmjs01.js
Line: 1, Column: 6
Source Code:
tWidth){dyCli=body.clientHeight;dxOff=body.scrollLeft;dyOff=body.scrollTop;}else{dxCli=window.innerWidth-14;dyCli=window.innerHeight-15;dxOff=window.pageXOffset;dyOff=window.pageYOffset;}var
oX=new nm_xy(o,body),xPar=oX.x,yPar=oX.y,dxPar=oX.dx,dyPar=oX.dy

JavaScript errors such as this are easily seen in Mozilla's JavaScript console
although other browsers do not detect and report them. (Another reason to use
Mozilla!)

Since the original issue related to layers is resolved, marking this bug fixed. 

msnbc.com is to be congratulated on their upgrade to support the standards
related to the dom; however, this page still has many standards related issues
that may cause the display of the content not to match the designer's intent.

Viewing the output of
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msnbc.com%2F&doctype=Inline 
on this page shows the use of mixed xml like tags proprietary to Internet
Explorer, Invalid HTML nesting, Invalid Attributes, Invalid HTML Attribute
syntax (missing quotes), Invalid HTML comments, Invalid Characters, etc.

Viewing http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://www.msnbc.com/
fails due to the invalid xml syntax in the document.

Note that this site may need to have other issues related to valid html and css,
plugins, etc investigated and bugs filed. If you do file multiple bugs on this
site please use a tracking bug to manage all issues reported on this site and to
file a separate evangelism bug on each specicific issue.

Comment 17

[Ian Tommins ('thelem')]

verified fixed. Creating new bugs on msnbc.com via new tracker (87471)

Comment 18

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.