31873 - www.redhat.com looks totaly wacked

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)

Description

[Michael R. Eckhoff]

In pulling up http://www.redhat.com/ the page is totaly screwed up.  The top
part of the page (as seen by IE) is actually shown after the 'content' part of
the page.

Normal:
_____________________
| Redhat.com         |
|March 14, 2000      |
|--------------------|
|WONews| Search      |
|      | other stuff |
|      |             |
|------|             |
|RH Nws|             |
|      |             |
----------------------

Mozilized:
_______________________
|    RH News          |
|---------------------|
| Other Stuff         |
|---------------------|
| RedHat.com          |
| March 14, 2000      |
|---------------------|
|WO News| Search      |
|       |             |
|_____________________|

Ok, so my ASCII art sucks, but you get the idea.

Build is 2000031412 on Win98.

Comment 1

[Michael R. Eckhoff]

Attachment: Image Comparison - IE to Mozilla www.redhat.com

Comment 2

[Jason Eager]

Bug does not exist in Linux nightly build 2000031315. 

About to grab a new nightly build to see if the problem was merged in today.

Comment 3

[Martin Horwath]

This seem to occure on pages that use document.write in the head.

On that page the some javascript like this one

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript1.2">
<!-- 
if (navigator.platform.indexOf("Linux") != -1)	{
	document.write("<LINK REL=\"stylesheet\" TYPE=\"text/css\" 
HREF=\"/css/home_lx.css\">");
}
else if (navigator.platform.indexOf("Win") != -1)	{
	document.write("<LINK REL=\"stylesheet\" TYPE=\"text/css\" 
HREF=\"/css/home_win.css\">");
}
else {
	document.write("<LINK REL=\"stylesheet\" TYPE=\"text/css\" 
HREF=\"/css/home_nitpick.css\">");
}

// -->
</SCRIPT>

The same problem is on http://www.zdnet.com or http://www.ringana.com
All these pages use a document.write to insert a style to load.

Maybe document.write is to slow.

This occures on Win95,98,NT

Comment 4

[Jason Eager]

This bug most definately does NOT appear in the Linux build.



(Nightly build 2000031418)

Comment 5

[Martin Horwath]

This occured also on the latest builds on Windows.
2000-03-14-12-M15 and with 2000-03-14-20-M15-nb1b.

When the www.zdnet.com page is saved to local harddisk, the page looks a little 
bit different but not correct (Timing problem).
When the Redhat page page is saved to the hd, it does not occure anymore. 
Stylesheet could not be loaded anymore.

Comment 6

[Richard Zach]

I'm seeing this as well on Linux build 2000.03.15.09.  I saved the file to disk
and played around with the headers.  The problem is still there when I leave in

<SCRIPT>
	document.write("<LINK REL=stylesheet>");
</SCRIPT>

but disappears if I change it to

<SCRIPT>
	document.write("<LINK>");
</SCRIPT>

It also disappears if I replace the entire script with just

<LINK REL=stylesheet>

which is what the script is supposed to be equivalent to.

CC rickg for parser and jst for JS.  Please have a look.

Comment 7

[Richard Zach]

Same brobelm as bug 32094--document.write.  -> harishd

Comment 8

[Richard Zach]

Also happens on http://www.babelfish.altavista.com/.  Does that make it top100? 

Comment 9

[harishd]

The problem was caused due to parser context mismatch.

FIXED now.

Comment 10

[Richard Zach]

Both redhat and babelfish looking good on Linux build 2000.03.18.08. Marking
VERIFIED.