302814 - amazon.com page fails to wrap correctly - too wide - yet renders correctly in IE

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[cacheoverflow]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050730 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050730 Firefox/1.0+

amazon.com page fails to wrap correctly - too wide - yet renders correctly in IE

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0804815321

using deer park latest trunk (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050730 Firefox/1.0+)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0804815321
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
page rendered incorrectly, no wrap

Expected Results:  
wrapped text

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A//www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0804815321/002-1249686-0394419
ah well, 1212 errors on that page

Couldn't find a dupe

En-Us Tech Evan ?

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

This is due to the post under

0 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
Kanji primer for Brett, December 31, 2002

namely, the line of text that contains

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bug is INVALID imo.

Comment 3

[Philipp]

Try this one:
http://ceaudio.en.alibaba.com/offerdetail/50811086/Sell_innovative_2_1ch_transparent_speaker.html

Again, it renders well in IE. Validator throws up some 150 pointers, but none
severe in the line concerned (which is line 217; it has an & where an &
should be, but that really shouldn't stop the line wrapping imho!)

Something is broken with gecko's handling of <pre>, which occurs in that line -
it has problems with scrolling, too, which I reported a while ago.

Comment 4

[Philipp]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Something is broken with gecko's handling of <pre>, which occurs in that line
> it has problems with scrolling, too, which I reported a while ago.

...where "it" refers to the "pre" tag, not to the page I cited.

Also looked at the amazon example, and the problem is indeed that the text is
not contained in a tag; the text starts with </table> 

I'm not sure what the Mozilla policy is on non-compliant sites - do we insist on
text being contained in a tag?

Comment 5

[Philipp]

(In reply to comment #3)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716
Firefox/1.0.6

Comment 6

[cacheoverflow]

here is another page that fails to wrap in FireFox or IE, yet wraps nicely in
Opera, for your analysis:
http://www.horsesass.org/index.php?p=994

Comment 7

[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 8

[cacheoverflow]

this seems to be fixed in FF 3.5

Comment 9

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

OK, glad it is gone, but not FIXED unless we know what patch did this.