48421 - Site lays out/renders incorrectly

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)

Description

[Jens-Uwe]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20000809
BuildID:    2000080910

the page mentioned above is rendered wrong. A background, which is intended to
be only shown in a small part of the screen is shown all over. That gives blue
letters on  blue background, which is hard to read.
On the other hand, this page looks COMPLETLY different then it does in Netscape4.x!
this bug seems to be reproducible on linux and win2000 atleast.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.look at http://www.cpureview.com/art_64bit_a.html

Actual Results:  the page looks really strange.

Expected Results:  the page should look good and readable

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** Bug 48428 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

setting bug status to new.  Over to Layout.

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

sending to layout, which I suppose asa meant to do...

Comment 4

[Jeffrey Baker]

*** Bug 48577 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Jeffrey Baker]

*** Bug 48819 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Nisheeth Ranjan]

Triaging Clayton's bug list.  Layout problem, so over to Marc.

Comment 7

[Jeffrey Baker]

The underlying problem is that the SoftQuad doctype is triggering strict
parsing.  Changing the doctype to HTML 4.01 Transitional makes the page render
in a more-or-less reasonable way.  We can either recognize the SoftQuad DTD and
parse it in Transitional or quirks mode, or we can mark this as invalid and
expect the page authors to use a w3c doctype.

Reassiging to parser.

Comment 8

[rickg]

This page will soon be rendered as non-strict, as we've decided to remove strict 
doctype for 6.0. Marking wont fix.

Comment 9

[Jan Carpenter]

verified