297485 - unidentified object displayed in front of flash object in a table

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 242122

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[didit]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050610 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-3)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050610 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-3)

This is a testcase stripped down from the betandwin livebets
(http://www.betandwin.de , then click on any of the live bets shown at the right
side).

Looking at the source code of my small sample page, there are only three colors
to expect: yellow, red and blue. However when opening the page, there is a gray
object partly in front of where the flash object should be shown.
When there is actually a flash in the location specified in the page (see above,
how to get there), the strange gray object is in front of it. Apparently the
flash is restricted the the red area in the example page, leaving it mostly
unusable.

Firefox under Windows displays the page as I would expect it. Internet Explorer
and Konqueror also work as expected.
Mozilla is also wrong (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8)
Gecko/20050513 Debian/1.7.8-1).


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open http://www.mailys.de/ffbug.html

Actual Results:  
Gray object of unknown origin takes up space where the flash should be.



Expected Results:  
The flash should be wider to fill the table. No gray "spacer".

Comment 1

[didit]

Small typo: 
to reproduce open 
http://www.mailsys.de/ffbug.html 
 

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

> Small typo: 
> to reproduce open 
> http://www.mailsys.de/ffbug.html

the flash object referenced by that page does not exist

Comment 3

[didit]

(In reply to comment #2) 
> > Small typo:  
> > to reproduce open  
> > http://www.mailsys.de/ffbug.html 
>  
> the flash object referenced by that page does not exist 
 
It doesn't matter whether it exists or not. Firefox reserves space for it and 
that does not match what one would expect. I used the background color to 
mark the region that the flash would reside in. 
 
You can go to betandwin.de and try with the actual page to see that the error 
is exactly the same when the referenced flash really exists. I'm sorry I can't 
provide a stable link to the "real" testpage because it keeps changing over 
time (includes an event id, and there is not always one available). 
 

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

ok.  The gray box over the right side of the object is bug 294178.  The bug
doesn't show up with suite v1.7.8 and doesn't show up with current trunk of
suite or firefox.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 294178 ***

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 242122 ***