315634 - Seemingly plain-vanilla static HTML web page renders a horrible-looking mess on-screen

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 63895

(Core :: Layout: Positioned, defect)

Description

[F. A. Heinsen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

Visit this link: 

http://edgar.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085734/000119312505219087/dex991.htm

Internet Explorer renders it fine, but Mozilla Firefox doesn't :-(

The HTML looks plain-vanilla and clean, AFAICT.  

Note that edgar.sec.gov is a prominent, high-traffic website.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://edgar.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085734/000119312505219087/dex991.htm

Actual Results:  
Web page renders as garbage on-screen

Expected Results:  
Web page should display correctly

Comment 1

[Adam Becevello]

Comfirmed: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5

However this page is far from "plain-vanilla" and clean.  Practically every word on the page is in its own <div></div> tag with style= attributes specifying absolute coordinates.  Running it through the W3C HTML validator gives 1318 errors (see http://validator.w3.org/detailed.html).

I'm leaving this as unconfirmed since I don't have the time or knowledge to reduce this page to a testcase and really find out what is happening here.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_Languages/HTML/Q_20945356.html contains a discussion about another page that was apparently created using the same tool.  The most relevant bits:

"So it appears to me as if IE is setting the 'containing block' of the DIV tags to the table, while Mozilla isn't.   Is this actually a case where IE got something right and Mozilla got it wrong?"

"Actually it is a case of IE being wrong, invalid and breaking the document object.  The only elements that legally and logically can be children to the table element are: tbody, tfoot, thead, and tr."

Comment 3

[F. A. Heinsen]

OK.  Does Mozilla.org have a formal channel for letting the Securities & Exchange Commission know that its website contains web pages that can *not* be read by roughly one out of every seven individuals on the Internet?

Comment 4

[Erik Fabert]

Looks simply like a bad case of bug 63895 to me.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Do you still see this problem using the most recent versions of all components?
If you do not, please close the bug with resolution set to WORKSFORME.
If you do, please comment in the bug.