Closed Bug 48819 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Page completely messed

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

x86
Windows 98
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 48421

People

(Reporter: devotip, Assigned: asa)

References

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Details

From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m18) Gecko/20000812 BuildID: 2000081208 Just look Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open http://www.cpureview.com/art_64bit_a.html Actual Results: everything is on a large dark blu bakground column Expected Results: something on the left in a narrow dark blu background column something on the right in a large light blu background column
It is the DOCTYPE that triggers strict mode: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//SoftQuad//DTD HoTMetaL PRO 4.0::19970714::extensions to HTML 4.0//EN" "hmpro4.dtd"> I changed the DOCTYPE to HTML 4.0 Transitional and then asked http://validator.w3.org to validate -- it found lots of errors... Removing the DOCTYPE makes the document render fine in Mozilla 2000-08-12-08. Recommending WORKSFORME.
I'm not sure. The avalanche error after changing to html 4 could be because the non standard dtd is needed I'll do a check on what errors are there after dropping the hmpro4.dtd
Some of the errors are because the page is generated in part by a javascript, it is not wrong because of that. One interesting fact is that by simply removing doctype or replacing the origina doctype with the html 4 transitional the page has the proper layout. The non standard doctype IS the source of the issue but still can't tell if is triggering a bug or is bogous on its own
going to the owners of the nonstandard doctype dtd stuff is easy to find improperly handled pages like http://www.softquad.com/ http://www.hotmetalpro.com/support/ and yes I know, this is becoming a bad bug report becouse is not pointing to a specific event but with these pages I'm not able to decide if and what is bad standard compliance or a Mozilla implementation issue. So feel free to dissect the provided links and post other bugs if appropriate or if really all is to put on the "is not standard compliant" pile mark this bug as invalid
Actually this is becoming a bad bug report because the issue is already reported at Bug 48421. Searching for duplicate reports saves your time, and the time of the Mozilla team. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48421 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
verified, same url
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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