283052 - page display/rendering too wide for 800x600

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[John T]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050220
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050220

Version 1.7.3 adjusted (reflowed?) the text to fit my 800x600 display, my
preferred resolution. In running this 2-20-2005 nightly build, the text isn't
rendered so the page width fits my screen resolution. Horizontal scrolling is
needed to show the left and right sides of the page.

I adjusted the screen resolution to 1024x768 and the full page displayed without
scrolling. Shouldn't the browser accommodate the 800x600 resolution?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set system screen resolution to 800x600.
2. Display the indicated page http://www.ksdp.org/?q=node/view/795 in the browser


Actual Results:  
Horizontal scrolling is needed to display the right side of the screen

Expected Results:  
The text layout processing should have made the lines a suitable length to
display the left and right sidebars of the page without scrolling at 800x600
resolution.

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

This page is too wide for the window almost regardless how wide the window is.
Its CSS includes:

#sidebar-left, #sidebar-right {width: 155px;  padding: 10px;}
#header, #content {width: 100%;}

This means the page will normally be 350px wider than the window, depending on
how big the actual fonts are, which depends on your default font setting. When I
go there in a 1400px wide window with nothing to override the page's font sizes
and my default fonts set to 22px, everything fits, but only until I zoom the
fonts back up from the page's 70% to a readable size. Then I get a horizontal
scrollbar. With my normal user userContent.css applied to override the page's
70% fonts, my 1400px wide starts with a scrollbar about the width of both of the
page's sidebars.

IOW, the page is badly designed, not a Gecko bug.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yep, just a misdesigned page.