46971 - bouncy text when hovering mouse cursor on liks

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Devoti Paolo]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m17) Gecko/20000729
BuildID:    2000072904

When the mouse cursor goes over a link it is repainted in a different size
making the lower part of the page to move down and back up when moving the
cursor away from the link

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open http://www.teleport.com/~douglas/
2.move the mouse cursor over a link on the left
3.move the cursor away from it
4.repeat 3 and 4

Actual Results:  the bottom part of the page is moving when the link is highlighted

Expected Results:  nothing moves

Comment 1

[Gregory McLean]

Looking at the frame's source I see the following:
<style fprolloverstyle>A:hover {color: #00FF00; font-family: Tahoma;
font-weight: bold}
</style>

One has to wonder if this is contributing to it. 

Comment 2

[Paul Collins]

I've noticed this behaviour on some pages when using Internet Explorer as well
as Mozilla.  O'Reilly's "HTML: The Definitive Guide" (3rd edition, page 284,
last paragraph) warns against changing the font size/weight of elements using
the pseudo-classes (referred to as "transient display properties" in the book)
on the grounds that it causes needless redisplay activity (in those user agents
that implement it correctly).

I don't believe that this is a bug, since Mozilla is doing exactly what it was
asked to do.

Comment 3

[Devoti Paolo]

You are right. It's a bug in the page.

Comment 4

[Ari Pollak]

so should this be marked NOTABUG, WORKSFORME, or is it still a bug?

Comment 5

[Devoti Paolo]

it's not a Mozilla issue

Comment 6

[WD]

*** Bug 48773 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Rann Bar-On]

ver inv

Comment 8

[Rann Bar-On]

sorry, forgot to mod...doing now