2960 - Background color not displaying

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: GFX, defect, P2)

Description

[esther]

problem:  Blue background for "Discover IBM" and "Today's News" sections does
not display.

Comment 1

[michaelp]

i wonder if this is a parser, layout, netlib imglib or rendering problem?

Comment 2

[lchiang]

Update: found while doing the "top sites" checking.  Using the latest seamonkey
builds available today 2/5.

Comment 3

[John Morrison]

(note on bugs #2960, #2961, #2963 and #2965. -- www.ibm.com)

 By the way ... www.ibm.com dynamically generates *every* page, both
server-side and with all kinds of client-side javascript (including
pixel-specific fragments driven by OS, browser, and version). (Look at
the HTML source and it is echoing your user-agent, dns and exact
time).

 If I save what 4.5 gets to disk and load it into nglayout, I get
pretty good agreement in the two pages including 1) having the 'Go'
instead of the 'arrow', 2) getting the background color, 3) getting
the text box. (There are a couple of quirks: 1) small <input> box but
that's a <style> issue, and 2) wrong color for <A> (blue not white) ..
don't know why).

Comment 4

[esther]

Using build dated 3/3, page has changed but still no background color

Comment 5

[michaelp]

to reiterate: i wonder if this is a parser, layout, netlib imglib or rendering
problem?

Comment 6

[leger]

Removing myself from cc.

Comment 7

[rubydoo123]

I ripped the page apart and picked out all of the BGCOLOR values and created a
basic table with just the various colors. Comparing the output from 4.51 and
apprunner (build from 3/4) I do not see any differences. I need to pick at more
of the content to figure out specifically what the problem is -- hang on Michael
and let me look at it some more. I don't think it has anything to do with
imagelib and I don't think it has to do with layout.

Comment 8

[John Morrison]

I'll restate my earlier point about #2960, #2961, #2963 & #2965(INVA),
but perhaps more clearly this time: _These_are_NOT_bugs_.

 This is _not_ an apples-to-apples comparison -- www.ibm.com is
emitting _COMPLETELY_ different HTML for 'Mozilla/5.0 [en] (Win95; I)'
vs.  'Mozilla/4.5 [en] (Win95; I)' (and, I _guess_ for Unix/Mac agent
strings). (This is true for the current page design/style, and for
the recently retired page design of www.ibm.com). [Please email me if
you need more information -- John].

Comment 9

[Claudius Gayle]

I'm changing the QAC to myself(in the case where I am not already QAC) for bugs 2960,2961,2963, and 2965 so i can track them
together since they may have a major issue in common. I will also huddle with John([e-mail]) to see if we can
resolve these issues quickly and easily.

Comment 10

[Claudius Gayle]

The issues that [e-mail] so rightly raised can now be tracked at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3688
(servers sending broken HTML based on mozilla/5.0 user agent)

Comment 11

[Claudius Gayle]

resolving bug as INVALID see bug 3688 for more info

Comment 12

[leger]

Marking Verified/Invalid