276344 - Strange layout problems with vBulletin3 forum

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

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:1.8a6) Gecko/20041220

I encountered strange layout problems in the vBulletin3 forum of 3DCenter.org
(I'm a moderator there, so you can consider me a heavy user of the forum).

Sometimes the user info areas with username, avatar, etc. of two postings
overlap themselves (see the pictures I'll attach). But after a reload of the
page or even just changing the zoom of the text the error vanishes and isn't
reproducible anymore.

I see such kind of errors from time to time since the first alphas of Mozilla
1.8 (can't remember seeing it with 1.7.x), but I was never able to reproduce it
with the same two postings.

Bruno

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/
2. Surf many hours
3. Probably see the problem

Actual Results:  
If your lucky enough, you'll see the problem with the wrong layout.

Expected Results:  
Always render the postings correctly at the first try.

Some informations about my system:

PIII 1GHz
SIS630 onboard graphics (using 8MB of RAM)
256MB RAM
Windows XP SP2

Pipelining is disabled and Keep-Alive is enabled.

Comment 1

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

Attachment: Wrong layout of the user areas

Comment 2

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

Attachment: Correct layout of the user areas

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

looks like a table reflow bug

Comment 4

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

Could it be somehow related to Bug 217527?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217527

Bruno

Comment 5

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

Attachment: another bug in the user area

On this picture you can see another layout bug with vBulletin3. The user areas
should have the same width, but they apparently don't have. After a reload, it
looks like it should and there is no error. This bug could probably have the
same reason like the bug originally reported from me.

I have confirmations for this bug from other users using the following
Mozilla-Versions:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804
Netscape/7.2 (ax)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108
Firefox/1.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108
Firefox/1.0

For the people with knowledge in German, you can visit a thread concering this
errors in the 3DCenter-Forum at
http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=194970

Bruno

Comment 6

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

Attachment: Another bug example

You can see another reflow bug, found in that forum at
http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=196810&page=6&pp=20

Again it vanishes after resizing the text and again it was not reproducible for
me.

Bruno

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This needs a minimal reproducible testcase...

Comment 8

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

(In reply to comment #7)
> This needs a minimal reproducible testcase...
I have seen this bug once again, but as before wasn't able to reproduce it. So I
don't know where to start to search for a testcase. Perhaps the error occurs
only because of an extension like Adblock, but without a reproducible testcase
it's impossible to say.

Bruno

Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 10

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

I have a new laptop since 2 months with another chipset and haven't seen this
bug with SeaMonkey 1.0a nightlies since then. Marking this bug as RESOLVED
WORKSFORME if noone objects.