307901 - tables are rendered wrong

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Igor Furlan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050910 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050910 Firefox/1.4

In order to verify this bug, the developer need to have an account with e-trade.
The URL from above is misleading. Therefore I am attaching 2 screenshots to show
page rendering on Firefox 1.0 and the same page rendered with Firefox 1.5 beta 1

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create an account with e-trade.com ( if you do not have one already
2.login to the account
3.observe the rendering of the table on the RIGHT side of the page (ALERTS)

Actual Results:  
page (table) is rendered wrong)

Expected Results:  
page should be rendered right

my veriosn of the Firefox 1.5 beta 1 was compilled from the source, because
there is NO binary download for the REDHAT 8.0

Comment 1

[Igor Furlan]

Attachment: wrong table rendering on ff1.5 b1

please compare this screenshot with the next one and pay attention to the ALERT
table

Comment 2

[Igor Furlan]

Attachment: correct table rendering with FF1.0

same site same computer (RH8.0)  old firefox 1.0  ALERT table is ok

Comment 3

[Maarten Brak]

What makes you think the table is rendered wrong? It sure looks different, but
this does not necessarily mean it is wrong.

Comment 4

[Igor Furlan]

You are right. The table is not necessary wrong.

It is just unpleasant to work with it , difficult to read ( without using
horizontal scroll bar),  it is positioned too far away from the main body (gap
between main table and ALERT table is too wide).

 But it IS pleasant to work with it on MSIE on W2K, FF1.0 on RH ES3.0, FF1.0 on
RH8.0, FF1.0 on RH WS 3.0, mozilla 1.01 on RH8.0/9.0, mozilla 1.4 on RH6.2,
mozilla 1.7 on solaris, Konqueror 3.03 on RH8..0, Konqueror 3.1 on RH9.0 and
opera on RH6.2.

Ooops, I have almost forgotten. It could be that web developers at etrade did
not follow W3C standards as well just prior of the release of FF1.5b1. You never
know. Maybe they decided to break FF1.5. There are many things which coould/can
go wrong.

Do the math.

Thanks

Comment 5

[Igor Furlan]

Attachment: HTML source code of the offending URL page

Since I am NOT a WEB (HTML) developer, I do not know how to reduce the source
code down to the essential snippet which would reproduce the unpleasant
behavior (perhaps, wrong behavior) of the site. So, here it is the complete
sanitized code which exhibits the unpleasant behavior on FF1.5b1.

Comment 6

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Please leave this bug in the Core product: Firefox is just a frontend using the
shared Core rendering engine.

Comment 7

[muzaffer]

Attachment: another bitmap which shows incorrect rendering of tables

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Martijn, would you be willing to create a testcase here?

Comment 9

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: Partly stripped down

When I remove the strict doctype, the layout becomes fine or when I remove all nowrap attributes, the layout becomes fine.
So I think this is a result from fixing bug 277232.

Comment 10

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

So this is Tech Evangelism.
The webmaster(s) should either remove the strict doctype or remove the nowrap attributes.

Comment 11

[Igor Furlan]

WFM with the FF final version 1.5 
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Table(s) on www.etrade.com is(are) rendered correctly