507865 - List item numbers are incorrect, 223. is followed by 119.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Eric Peterson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090605 SeaMonkey/1.1.17
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090605 SeaMonkey/1.1.17

A long list in the Wikipedia "Notes" section on page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology (and maybe others) displays incorrect item numbers once the count reaches "224.".  The item following "223." should be "224." but instead is "119.".


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Display http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology
2. Search for "[223]" on this page, pick that link to jump to the "Notes" section.

Actual Results:  
Item "223." is displayed, the next item displays as "119."

Expected Results:  
The item after "223." should be "224.".

When I hold Shift and press the reload button while viewing item "223.", the page briefly redisplays at the top, then scrolls down to the "Notes" section by item "223.".  Items "224." and higher appear correctly numbered for an instant, then "224." changes to "119." and the following items become misnumbered.

Curiously, if I press the reload button without holding Shift, the misnumbering starts at "185." (at the top of the 3rd column) which appears as "80.". (And the incorrect items "81.", "89.", and "91." are not aligned with the others).  Firefox 3.5.1 displays this list correctly.

To view the revision of the page on the date I viewed it, you can use:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&oldid=305488171

When I first displayed this page, the list was correctly numbered.  When I held Shift and pressed the reload button, the problem appeared as described above.

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

> A long list in the Wikipedia "Notes" section on page
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology (and maybe others) displays incorrect
> item numbers once the count reaches "224.".  The item following "223." should
> be "224." but instead is "119.".

> <p><a name="Notes" id="Notes"></a></p>
> <h2><span class="mw-headline">Notes</span></h2>
> <div class="references-small references-column-width" style="-moz-column-width:25em; column-width:25em;">
> <ol class="references">
> (many <li>...</li> follows)

(a) If windows width is narrow and it becomes two column layout, number of <li> is not corrupted by Reload.
(b) If windows width is wide and it becomes three column layout, number of <li> in third column is corrupted(starts with same number as second column) by Reload with Seamonkey 1.1.7 on MS Win.

Above (b) is not observed with Firefox 3.5 and Seamonkey 2
> Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.9.1.2pre) Gecko/20090721 SeaMonkey/2.0b2pre
=> WORKSFORME with Sm 2, Fx 3.5.

"-moz-column-width" is experimental version of CSS3's "column-width".
> http://www.css3.info/preview/multi-column-layout/
I believe implementation of "column-width" support or experiment with "-moz-column-width" is mainly done on trunk builds instead of Release build(security fix only).

Comment 2

[:Hb]

WFM in SM2