383632 - Fox News Health page navigation menu bounces to the right (reflow?) after initially rendering correctly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Build ID: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070607 Minefield/3.0a6pre

(This has been broken for a while; I'm still trying to narrow down its regression range, and hence, possible cause.)

Summary: Fox News Health page navigation menu bounces to the right (reflow?) after initially rendering correctly

(This has got to be one of the worst summaries I've filed yet; bear with me!)

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Load the attached testcase, which is a somewhat-reduced testcase of Fox News' Health page
2. Examine the menu on the left Health navigation menu

Expected Results:

It should be flush left

Actual Results:

Although it initially lays out correctly, after what seems like a reflow it the Health navigation menu gets rendered near the middle of the page

Comment 1

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Attachment: index_files.jar (needed for loading index.html)

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Attachment: index.html -- minimal-ish testcase (needs more paring down)

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Er.. I can't figure out how to make use of the attached testcase, but on the original site the problem appears on 2006-02-10....  with the switch from GTK1 to GTK2 builds in my build archive.  There are no checkins of relevance in the gap between the GTK1 build from that day and the GTK2 build from that day, and only the GTK2 build shows the problem.

Clearly whatever is going on with Windows is unrelated to GTK2, but I don't really have a way of finding a Windows regression range.

gavin, can you narrow that down?

Comment 4

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Attachment: Files needed for testcase.

Contains:

index_files (folder)
index.html (run this)

Comment 5

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Running jar:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=267646!/index.html should show the bug.

Comment 6

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I see the layout change during the checkins of bug 300030.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I see that too, on Linux --- it goes from broken to more broken...  On Windows, is it ok before bug 300030?

Comment 8

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Attachment: screenshot pre- bug 300030 build on Win XP

Comment 9

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

This seems to have recently become WORKSFORME.

On Windows, I tested these nightlies: 
 2006-12-16: broken
 2007-06-07: broken
 2007-07-21: working

On Linux, I tested a trunk build from today (2007-07-26) and it works.

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Stephend, does this work for you too?  Can you track down when that happened?

Comment 11

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Oddly enough, the live website works even in the regression builds, but the testcase clearly shows that it was fixed in some checkin between 2007-06-20-04 and 2007-06-21-04.

http://tinyurl.com/3ycz22

Comment 12

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Interesting.  I guess it was the textframe landing...

Comment 13

[Jason Bassford]

If the fix can't be identified, this should be re-resolved to WORKSFORME...

Comment 14

[Jason Bassford]

Oops.  I haven't had my coffee yet.  Just ignore the above.