300717 - bad showing of pages that have right-to-left direction or have persian language...

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[hosseins]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

in most cases firefox show bad these items:

1- the Persian language pages that have rtl direction.
2- pages that have rtl direction.

for example firefox dosn't show one part of page,
and dosn't give us any scroll to see that unshowed part
of page, for sample please see this page one time with
firefox and one time with IE:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run firefox
2. in address bar type: http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian
3. see loaded page

Actual Results:  
the page that IE show it correct,
firefox show it in incorrect HTML structure manner!

Expected Results:  
well formed and correct page
with all part of page

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

The only difference I see between firefox and IE on
http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/ is in the row of links near the bottom of the
page. I think that is an example of bug 258928.

If you are seeing other differences, can you attach a screenshot?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

do you still see this problem? please update the bug with comment and/or close as appropriate.

(bug has no comment since 2007-01-01)

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCO. Please reopen if you are seeing this in Firefox 3.5.2 or later in Firefox safe mode and a new profile with the latest plugins.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Profiles