31297 - a "ghost" of the text fields appears to the right when browser is active

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect, P3)

Description

[Michael Goit]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; N; Win98; en-US) Mozilla/m14
BuildID:    2000030317

a "ghost" of the text fields appears to the right when browser is active
Happens when I type, or when I click on "login" Happens when the "entering a
secure site" thing comes up too.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Make sure running the special "crypto" build, with the crypto enabled
2.go to https://www.mta.ca/
3. click on "webmail"
4. when the page loads, click in the text fields, and watch the "ghosts" appear
to the right


Actual Results:  every time, a faint copy of the text fields, their contents,
and the button appears to the right of the "actual" elements.

Expected Results:  shouldn't have created these ghosts.....



obviously you can't log into my university's webmail, but the "ghosting" appears
nonethe less

ths problem wasn't observed until I entered a secure server, I'm assuming it has
something to do with the way the data in the text fields is being sent/recieved
from the PSM instances/methods.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Not sure this has anything to do with PSM.  I've seen it on standard builds on 
and off for the last few months.  I'll investigate and report back.

Comment 2

[Michael Goit]

oh, I hadn't seen it until the PSM was enabled.... probably just that web site, 
and I couldn't access it until https was a registered domain ID

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

OK, i've found a site that I can reproduce this.

Tested with 030908 win32 build under NT

Steps to reproduce:
1.  visit http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=1227 or any other 
mozillaZine article.  
2.  Looking below all the posted talkbacks you will see a series of HTML Forms 
labled Title, Response, Mozillazine Member Login, and Mozillazine Member 
Password.
3.  Clicking in the Title or the Login fields generate a reflow that flashes a 
"ghost" image of the form and it's contents about an inch and a half to the 
right.  
4.  After teh first click in that particualr form which causes the ghost flash 
it will not repeat in that form until a reload of the page happens.  It can 
still happen in another of the forms though.

I'm gonna move this over to HTML Forms (it may be the Table and not the Form)
[e-mail], can you reproduce this at the mozillaZine URL?

rods, does this sound like yours or karnaze?

Comment 4

[rods (gone)]

didn't comfirm this

Comment 5

[buster]

chris: was this fixed by your change to incremental table reflow?

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

I can reproduce this under 20000308, but WORKSFORME on 20000327. Marking such.

Gerv

Comment 7

[luis rincon]

verified on build 2001-08-14-trunk