373920 - Overlapping pictures/text makes text unreadable

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Camino Graveyard :: Page Layout, defect)

Description

[Gerald]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070228 Camino/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070228 Camino/1.0.4

Trying to read a story on msnbc.com.  Half way down the page, there is a box titled, "Fact File:  Firing US Prosecutors Memo" ... to its right is a "Photo Features" box.  The photo features box overlaps onto the fact file box causing text to be unreadable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  go to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17607199/
2.  scroll down a little more than half way
3.  observe the boxes
Actual Results:  
boxes overlapped

Expected Results:  
boxes not to be overlapped

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

This doesn't happen if you bump your font size up a little bit. (Whether it takes one or two attempts depends on the original default font size.)

That leads me to think that this is a bug in the site that the designers did not take into account. (It happens in Firefox with an appropriately small default font size, too.) As such, it should be resolved INVALID.

Please complain to the webmaster.

Comment 2

[Stuart Morgan]

Their layout assumes that those things won't be next to eachother, and uses some fixed width sizing that doesn't work out if they are. Lots of sites aren't tested at various font sizes by their designers, unfortunately.