44861 - page displayed properly only after doubleclick on reload button

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P3)

Description

[Devoti Paolo]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m17) Gecko/20000707
BuildID:
2000070720

Only the left bar is displayed the right portion of the page appear only after a double
click on the reload button

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open the url wait for the "document
done"
2.click reload button wait for the document done repeat thi a couple of time
3.double click reload
button, the page is fully displayed 

Actual Results:  after a reload you should get
always the same page content while you get the complete page only after the
reload button double click

Expected Results:  same page at every reload

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Either tables problem (ther are a coulple unclosed <tr> tags I think, amy or may
not be related) or a cache issue.  Over to HTML Tables first.  Confirmed on
070608 on NT and 070708 on 98

Comment 2

[Dave]

It's not the exact same behaviour, but perhaps related to bug #40129?

Comment 3

[Peter Lubczynski]

reproducable in viewer, M18

Page looks awful after reload. Looks fine if new window is brought up and URL is 
pasted in

Comment 4

[buster]

here's one we could use a reduced test case for.

Comment 5

[Peter Lubczynski]

Looking closer at the source, it appears that around the only FORM tag in the 
testcase there is a table with miss-matched TR and TD tags (they are swapped). 
Put them in the correct order and the page looks fine, every time. 

There is also an unclosed TD tag for the left column, but this doesn't seem to 
affect the problem. 

However, it's still weird that it looks correct only the first time when the 
tags are wrong (you'd think it would be incorrect all the time). It's 
almost like the HTML only gets fixed up the first time around. Also, Nav and IE 
fix it up all the time.

Comment 6

[Peter Lubczynski]

Attachment: testcase from hell

Comment 7

[Peter Lubczynski]

I've tried to narrow this down as much as possible but it's really weird.

To see behavior: 
Load up the testcase in Seamonkey. Hit the reload button. Notice the right 
column with "More News" disapears. Hit ENTER on the location bar to bring back 
the orriginal document.

Playing with the testcase, it is enough to just remove the first line of the 
large comment in the middle of the page to have it work correctly. However, 
inserting this large comment into another page with similar table structure 
doesn't yeild the same results. Remove any text in the left column and it works 
correctly. Remove the form and it works correctly. Fix the backwords <TD><TR> 
tags and it works correctly. 

Sounds like a parser problem.

Comment 8

[karnaze (gone)]

chrisd, can you narrow down the test case?

Comment 9

[karnaze (gone)]

petersen, is this still a problem?

Comment 10

[Devoti Paolo]

Attachment: For further reference here is the original untouched page

Comment 11

[Devoti Paolo]

There is still a misbehaviour related to the first display of the page while 
after a reload it's ok.
To be more specific:
Copy on a local drive the attached page
open a mozilla browser and maximize it
browse the filesystem to open l0pht.htm
double click to open the page (some strange flashes will happen)
wait for the timeouts to end 
with alt-tab switch to another task 
with alt-tab switch to mozilla
you see the filesystem page insted of the l0pht page

after e reload everything works fine

I'll try to shrink the testcase

Comment 12

[Devoti Paolo]

Forgot to tell I verified with (win98 2001031304)

Comment 13

[yodatjm]

This also seems to happen on http://www.geek.com

Comment 14

[yodatjm]

Forgot to mention I was using the 2001090603 nightly and that going to
http://geek.com seems to work fine.

Comment 15

[yodatjm]

This bug still seems to happen from time to time on some websites (most
noticeably slashdot.org).  However, the pages doesn't load after doubleclicking
on the reload button.  It only loads after repeatedly doing a refresh (I don't
know how many, I held down ctrl+r until I could see the status bar telling me it
was transferring data).  I tested it using the 0.9.8 milestone.  The exact
address was http://slashdot.org/index.pl.

Comment 16

[Devoti Paolo]

wfm win98 2002091008

Comment 17

[Bernd]

wfm, closing as wfm based on reporters comment