Closed
Bug 47744
Opened 25 years ago
Closed 25 years ago
Page completely messed
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)
SeaMonkey
General
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
INVALID
People
(Reporter: devotip, Assigned: asa)
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Details
Attachments
(2 files)
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m18) Gecko/20000804
BuildID: 2000080408
The page is completely messed while is properly handled by NN47 and IE5.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open http://terraserver.com/OrbCities.asp
Actual Results: most of the page content is stuffed in a column on the right of
the page
Expected Results: proper display of page
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Comment 1•25 years ago
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Comment 2•25 years ago
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confirmed on Linux 2000080308, changing os/plat to all
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows 98 → All
Hardware: PC → All
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Comment 3•25 years ago
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The problem might not be on Mozilla's side. In fact, the document says DTD=HTML4
STRICT while there is plenty of HTML4 LOOSE code in it. In addition the <head>
tag is misplaced. Check the URL below:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fbugzilla.mozilla.org%2Fshowattachment.cgi%3Fattach_id%3D12419http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fbugzilla.mozilla.org%2Fshowattachment.cgi%3Fattach_id%3D12419
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Comment 4•25 years ago
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I checked the code of the page more in depth. Even with the DTD loose, there
were *plenty* of errors. I corrected them (by commenting out wrong code and
adding a comment for inserted tags). I will post the corrected page as an
attachment within moments. The person writing the code was *very* careless like
writing <html><style></style><head></head> (style should be within the head
block) or <tr><td></td></td></tr> (duplicate closing td tag).
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Comment 5•25 years ago
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While I agree on the fact that is a bogous html page perhaps is safer to handle
"at best" what is found in a page. There is a lot of broken stuff around the
internet and the common user doesn't know about standard compliance and they
care only about what they see on the screen. If is not managed to have a
graysful handling of the bogous realworld stuff Mozilla is going to lose a lot
of users.
I suggest to interpret this bug report as:
Is it possible to handle this stuff without breaking the standard?
While the standard MUST be supported is it possible to tolerate some of the
*very* careless stuff found on the internet?
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Comment 6•25 years ago
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Comment 7•25 years ago
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Devotip is pointing to the right problem. I would say this is a dilemma. Have
you ever seen Netscape showing a <input type="button"> when not showing up
_inside_ the <form></form> block? Have you ever seen Netscape showing a table
when the closing </table> tag was missing? I didn't. And always agreed with that
policy. The standards are getting more and more complicated so no need to make
programming even more complicated just in order to show pages made by crap
html-editors or lousy webmasters. I guess the percentage of bad pages out there
is very low, so this would not be worth consideration. Neither Mozilla nor
Netscape will loose users, but the companies building such page will loose
customers. So I guess they will be the first ones to correct their own bugs...
My 2 cents.
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Comment 8•25 years ago
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OK, here's the deal. The writer of that page explicitely stated HTML 4 strict
DTD. Mozilla honors that request. This is not a bug in mozilla. see
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/mozilla/modes for more info. Marking
INVALID
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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