281693 - "Daniel Okrent is" is skewered by a rule on the New York Times Public Editor page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 244932

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Nieder]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

The public editor's page at nytimes.com has a two-column layout with articles on
the left and miscellanious information on the right.  At the top of the left
column is a horizontal rule, which is intended to be centered in that column. 
Instead, it spans both columns and covers text on the right.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Visit nytimes.com/top/opinion/thepubliceditor/, or another testcase.

Actual Results:  
A horizontal rule skewered the text "Daniel Okrent is".
(screenshot: <http://jrnieder.home.comcast.net/public_editor_screenshot-Camino.pdf>)

Expected Results:  
Nothing looks off, and all text is readable.
(screenshot: <http://jrnieder.home.comcast.net/public_editor_screenshot-Safari.pdf>

Reproduced in recent Camino nightlies and Mozilla 1.7.2, both on Macintosh.  The
expected rendering occurs for both nytimes.com and a simplified testcase in
Safari 1.2.4 (v125.12) and Internet Explorer 5.2.3 (5815.1).

I don't know enough about HTML to tell whether this should be a tech evangelism
bug.  I reported the glitch to the New York Times on January 10, 2005; the bug
report was acknowledged the day after, and I haven't heard from them since.

Comment 1

[Jonathan Nieder]

Attachment: testcase, reduced from the public editor's page

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 244932 ***