370833 - Bug 84307 changed the way tables look in quirks mode

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a3pre) Gecko/20070217 Minefield/3.0a3pre

Attachment 253650 [details] [diff] made tables have gray borders in quirks mode unless otherwise specified. dbaron said on IRC that this was done to make us more compatible with IE, but apparently this is not the case, since IE6 and IE7 render the tables in quirks mode like we did before this patch landed.

What are people's thoughts on this?

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

This is what I see: http://wargers.org/mozilla/bug370833_table_border/table_border.htm

Comment 2

[fantasai]

I suspect that's a coloring issue rather than something fundamental to the change in the bginset patch. Either our inset color calculation doesn't match IE's or we should be using a slightly different shade of gray as the base. What we did before that attachment was checked in was to use the background color, whereas IE always, afaict, used the same shades of gray.

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: quirks testcase

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: standards testcase

Comment 5

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I guess the rule at:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/layout/style/quirk.css#113
is meant to be make Mozilla look more like what IE does.
But that's completely failing now. Using silver as the border-color is not making it better. I guess the inset/outset border just looks much different as to what IE is doing.
And apparently Mozilla used to do something special in quirks mode for table borders, to make it more look like IE, I guess.

Comment 6

[Hope Watts]

Attachment: same problem

Thanks from snythdaberpi1977.