44483 - BBC News stories render with bad font and layout choices

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 42388

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris Siebenmann]

Build ID: current CVS pull/build (this is a recent change, though)

 Articles (news stories) on the BBC News web site at http://news.bbc.co.uk/
have recently started rendering badly. There seem to be several problems,
mostly with the article body text:
- the text is all merged into one long run-on thing, with no paragraph
  separations. (This includes section titles, which can be distinguished
  by being in boldface.)
- the font size has shrunk (I think), but the interline spacing has remained
  the same; the result is hard(er) to read.
- various bits of the stylesheet appear to have fallen off (!), which is
  most visible in the navigation controls around the article text.

 I will attach two screen captures, from an 'old' (a week or so old CVS
build) Mozilla and from the current Mozilla.

 I believe this may be a sign of deeper problems that will cause issues
with other sites as well. If this can be reproduced by anyone else,
especially on another site, I would suggest escalating the priority to
Major and nominating this for nsbeta2.

Comment 1

[Chris Siebenmann]

Attachment: BBC story as old Mozilla properly renders it

Comment 2

[Chris Siebenmann]

Attachment: Mangled BBC news story as rendered in current CVS build

Comment 3

[Bernd Mielke]

Just remove the loose.dtd from the documenttype and it is parsed in compatib.
mode. The document is horrible html (validator.w3.org). So this bug is a doctype
issue. Marking as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42388 ***

Comment 4

[Katcha Da]

Verified duplicate.

Comment 5

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug
88132 for details.