40086 - rendering problems, scrolling problems, crash

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

This page has so many problems I don't even know where to begin, or what to file
this under. I'm testing under 2000-05-21-09 Linux.

First off, when it loads, it has some kind of frame type thing going on, with a
blue block on the left (obviously not frames, netscape 4.7 doesn't even show
that part). The scrollbar for the main section is hidden under this block, and
mouse drag/keyboard scrolling dont seem to work. there is, however, a few pixels
of the button scrollbar button sticking out. scroll all the way to the buttom,
then try drag-scrolling up. seg faults for me every time. sometimes you need to
drag off the buttom off the window, then drag back off the top for it to die.

Comment 1

[Jeffrey Baker]

I can confirm the problems on the same build and platform.  I think that the
original reporter must have meant to say that the blue bar is on the right. 
That's where it is for me.

This page is something of a pathological case.  It uses every fringe feature
that HTML 4 has to offer.  It also declares conformance with the HTML Strict
DTD, but doesn't deliver.  The page is riddled with syntactical problems. 
Further there are a number of empty <span></span> blocks that may be more than
Moz's tiny brain can take.

It is tempting to blame the page author but I suppose Mozilla should gracefully
handle such things.

Comment 2

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

er, yeah, meant right side.

yes, we can blame the layout on the author, but the thing im more concered about
is the crashing.

Comment 3

[Antti Näyhä]

It doesn't crash build 2000-05-22-08 (Red Hat 6.2, kernel 2.2.14) for me - in
fact, I can't even scroll up using the tiny scrollbar bit.

Comment 4

[Bozhan Boiadzhiev]

for the page was used i think first some simple text editor and then some 
WYSIWYG cos some of the tags a nessted , and some of them are uppercase and some 
of them are small. And i think that editor is Dreamweaver, he likes to put span 
tags to unconsciousness:)))  but I suppose Mozilla should gracefully
handle such stupid things.

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

-> Layout

Comment 6

[harishd]

Sounds very much like Eric's area. From Clayton's List to Eric Vaughan's.

Reassigning to [e-mail].

Comment 7

[Peter Trudelle]

Very strange behavior, but I cannot reproduce any crash using today's NS
verification builds on Linux or Win98.

Comment 8

[Eric Vaughan]

targeting

Comment 9

[Eric Vaughan]

fixed

Comment 10

[Chris Petersen]

Fixed in the July 6 build (2000-07-06-08-M17).