421051 - long forum reply fails to display

Status: NEW

(Core :: Web Painting, defect)

Description

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

In a VMWare discussion forum topic <http://communities.vmware.com/message/819513>, a long comment fails to display.  Scrolling through it displays parts of the page that were painted before the comment scrolled into view.  Paging to the comment has the same effect.  But once you scroll/page past the comment, the rest of the page paints fine.

The problem occurs with the latest nightly but only on Linux.  Mac and Windows versions both render the content correctly.

I don't have a reduced testcase, but here's a screenshot of Mac and Linux next to each other that shows the problem on Linux.

Comment 1

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Attachment: screenshot demonstrating problem

Comment 2

[Keith Maika]

Attachment: Shows bug on Windows vista

Confirming a similar problem on windows vista.  The post is displayed, but cut off  around half-way through leaving a large empty area.  Mousing around in the empty area I can see the mouse cursor change according to whether it is over text or a link, the text and links simply aren't visible.

Attached a screen shot showing a side-by-side of IE 7 and Firefox 2.0.0.12