362907 - "News Search" form layout not rendered properly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Oleg Romashin (:romaxa)]

Open in Firefox/Seamonkey ... Gtk2 toolkit
http://news.aol.com/entertainment/music/articles/

right top and right bottom "News Search" form control layout broken.

See screenshot in attachments.

For "Firefox/Seamonkey Linue Gtk1" and "Firefox/Seamoneky Windows" page rendered properly.

Only Linux, Gtk2.

Comment 1

[Oleg Romashin (:romaxa)]

Attachment: NewsAol Firefox2 windows

Comment 2

[Oleg Romashin (:romaxa)]

Attachment: News AOL linux broken search layout

Comment 3

[Oleg Romashin (:romaxa)]

Attachment: More simple testcase of broken web page part.

Comment 4

[Oleg Romashin (:romaxa)]

And also same problem for All Gtk2 builds from 2005 to 2006 curent...:
Gtk1: ok
Gtk2: nok.

Comment 5

[Oleg Romashin (:romaxa)]

Can reproduce it only with fresh/unstable debian distribution.
Probably on latest Ubuntu it will not works also.

On debian testing all works fine.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

So what is that testcase testing, exactly?  What're the pass and fail results for it?

And is this really in the right product?

Comment 7

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

comment 0, word 4 says "no, it's not."

Comment 8

[Andrew Schultz]

I suspect romaxa expects the search button to be on the same line with the input textbox.  It's not because they don't fit on the same line.  There's really no reason to expect that they would fit on the same line except for just getting lucky with font sizes and such.

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Ah, indeed.  The original site does set a width on the text input, but then you're depending on the x-advance of the font being something in particular.  You can't depend on that.