291530 - robertdick.net - Everything on this site appears very small. In Internet Explorer or Safari it fills the screen.

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Michael Graubart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050422
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050422

Everything on this site appears very small. In Internet Explorer or Safari it
fills the screen. I can't add any more details to this.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open the site given above.
2.click on the small pictures in the moveable bar on the left of the image in
order to view other pages.


Actual Results:  
Everything on all pages appears unreadable small. The main image fills about
1/16 of the screen area.

Expected Results:  
All pages should fill the screen, as they do in IE and Safari.

eMac G4, OS X 10.3.9. Classic theme.

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

If you look at the swf itself at index.swf ; it fills the screen. Is there some 
setting inside the swf that specifies the dimensions to use (pixels/points)
when embedded with the attributes width="100%" height="100%" ?

I suspect that I am seeing what you are.

Comment 2

[Michael Graubart]

Ben, I have to confess my ignorance. I haven't a clue about what 'swf' might be,
or how you get into it. All I know is that I can't use Mozilla to view this
site. I realize that the problem may, strictly, lie with the site; but I wonder
whether Mozilla could not become more forgiving of minor errors in
website-design or encoding, and thus more useful to ordinary end-users. I have
only once ever come across a site that I could view properly with Mozilla but
not with IE, but quite frequently the reverse (as on this occasion). I have
three browsers installed on my computer, but most non-technical users only have
one, and just wouldn't know what to do about a site like this one if they saw it
in Mozilla.

Comment 3

[Ben Fowler]

Those are excellent points.

SWF is the compiled form of Flash, and the page/pages at that site are not 
'real' web pages but containers for Flash movies.

Many people (who are not web developers) who carefully compare Safari to Firefox
prefer the former.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The rendering is correct.  The "100%" height is ignored, per CSS spec, since the
parent height is "auto".  This is a known bug in IE which we emulate in quirks
mode for compat with broken pages.   But this page is in standards mode.  That
is, it claims to be an XHTML 1.0 Transitional page.  So we render it per the
relevant standards.

Comment 5

[Michael Graubart]

Hurray! This has been fixed. Is it the website that has changed or Mozilla? (I
have just tried Build 20050621).

Comment 6

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

he changed to a doctype without uri and is now in quirks mode. thanks for
checking and for fixing.