334102 - excel file not displayed correctly from a server using php and back office.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 102131

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Frederic Laeroche]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2

at the above address, the server provide a dynamic display of an excel sheet, using php and back office, but only Internet Explorer 6 SP1 is able to display the page correctly, and firefox 1.5.0.2 is not able to display it correctly.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to : http://dassindiaforex.com/bankerfile.php?xlsFile=currencyrate.xls
2.see some columns have no numbers, and some text appear in the middle beneath the page, in transparency.
3.use IE60SP1 with the same address : the look is different, and perfect.

Actual Results:  
the excel page is not displayed correctly

Expected Results:  
display the excel page correctly like with IE 6SP1

Comment 1

[Elmar Ludwig]

MS Office products (including Excel) are known to create proprietary/invalid "HTML" output that is only viewable in IE. This is just another example of that.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102131 ***