279036 - Portion of page blanked when I try to to enter recipients email address to Email New York Times article

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Dick Tripp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111

On the page: Email this article, there are two blocks to enter information:
Recipients email address and Persoanl Message. If I place my cursor in either
blcok, a gray area appears on the left side of the page image. If I hit to
reload current page, it disappears but if I reinsert my cursor, the grayed area
reappears. This happens with all articles.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open any New York Times online article at http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/
2.In block labled Article tools, click on Eamil this article
3.Click to enter an email address

Actual Results:  
A blank gray area appears on the left, corresponding in size and shape to the ad
on the right side of the page.

Expected Results:  
No gray area should appear. I should be able to see the cursor and the text I enter.

This problem is a long standing one and appears in all recent builds of Mozilla
and Netscape. It does not happen with Safari.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Sounds like OSX widget fun.... Simon, can you reproduce this?

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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