300641 - table from the end of html page gets drawn over other items incorrectly in deerpark alpha2

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[abittner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+

take a look at the heise.de it-news website

<http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/go.shtml?forum_id=81654&list=1&hs=64&e=all>
(with the discussion threads all extended on that page) and you will see in a
relatively small and narrow deerpark alpha2 browser window that the lowest line
of that page (normally reading "Copyright © 2005 Heise Zeitschriften Verlag  	
Datenschutzhinweis   Impressum   Kontakt     Hosted by Plus.line " and all  this
with a grey bar is being displayed right inside the rest of the text and
discussions.

also click on the two links to collapse and expand the discussion tree

collapse:
<http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/go.shtml?forum_id=81654&list=1&hs=64&c=all>

expand:
<http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/go.shtml?forum_id=81654&list=1&hs=64&e=all>

and see how the grey bar with the copyright and impress notes gets drawn in
wrong places all over the page....

and experiment with resizing/windowsize of deerpark alpha2 on win32,

Deer Park 1.0+

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712
Firefox/1.0+


also submitted this with the deerpark alpha2 report broken website tool.
Successfully Transmitted Report RMO11212733351709

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install deerpark alpha2 on win32 (win2000, sp4 latest hotfixes, english)
2. surf to urls mentioned above and expand/collaps the discussion threads
3. see how the grey bar from the bottom gets drawn inside the discussions from
time to time in a relatively small and narrow browser window (try resizing,
experimenting)

Actual Results:  
the html rendering went bad....

Expected Results:  
html rendering to work just fine (firefox 1.0.5 on win32 win2000 same system
works fine)

see screenshots at

(grey bar with heise.de copyright infotext inside of discussion)
<http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=7/19311571724.jpg&s=x2>
<http://img324.imageshack.us/my.php?image=deerparkalpha2tablefloatingaro.jpg>
and

(grey bar with heise.de copyright infotext being displayed correctly at the
bottom of the page)
<http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=7/19311590632.jpg&s=x2>
<http://img320.imageshack.us/my.php?image=deerparkalpha2tablefloatingaro.jpg>

Comment 1

[abittner]

i have tried to narrow down the rendering problem to parts of the html.

i have simply copied all the html code of the expanded-thread heise.de page into
a simple file and only modifiying it that when loading the page it can still
fine the css files directly from http://www.heide.de/......

and then i tried to load that inside deerpark. 
this way with the local copy/file the lower grey bar always appears correctly at
the very end of the page.

then i searched for all the <img src=....> tags inside the html(especially the
discussion threads) and changed the absolute "/" links all to
http://www.heise.de/.... so that the local file/copy would also load the images
from the heise.de webserver.

and with this step the grey bar starts to get drawn at the wrong place, so the
bug starts to appear with this step...

i will upload the two sample html files (testcases) for your convenience....

maybe someone else can narrow it down some more and further remove unneccessary
html elements.

when i first tried to create just a simple html file with only the heise.de
stylesheets some random text and the very last tables (the grey bar with the
copyright notes etc, whichs gets drawn at wrong places) this bug didnt appear at
all....

so it has to do something with more content inbetween, with browsersize/width
and with differnt sorts of html elements needing to be rendered and displayed.....

Comment 2

[abittner]

Attachment: testcase 1, bug with last grey table line appears

this is the first testcase with images linked directly to heise.de and the bug
appearing and "working" just fine

Comment 3

[abittner]

Attachment: testcase 2, no images linked, bug doesnt appear here

this is the second testcase where i didnt change the absolute links of the <img
src="...."> tags. here the bug doesnt "work".

Comment 4

[abittner]

interesting thing is, that the attachment #1 [details] [diff] [review] here directly loaded from the
bugzilla page doesnt seem to work out. the bug doesnt appears this way.


maybe its the https transport meachanism or something else. 

be sure to save the attachments locally on a drive and to view them from there.

Comment 5

[Daniel.S]

Hm heise.de did redesign their website. There doesn't seem to be a reproducable problem anymore.

I wouldn't doubt the've fixed it long before as they are very Firefox-friendly.