61423 - pure ASCII text is not readable

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect, P3)

Description

[Igor Furlan]

Pure ASCII text written in the TABLE is not readable. It is white instead of
black.Please check attached GIF files

MSIE shows the same page/table corectly

Igor

system: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001010

Comment 1

[Igor Furlan]

Attachment: page seen by M18

Comment 2

[Igor Furlan]

Attachment: page seen by NS4.7

Comment 3

[Igor Furlan]

Attachment: page seen by MSIE - table is readable

Comment 4

[Igor Furlan]

Attachment: page seen by M18 - table is not readable

Comment 5

[Igor Furlan]

Attachment: page seen by NS4.7 - table is not readable

Comment 6

[Igor Furlan]

Attachment: page seen by MSIE - table is readable

Comment 7

[Igor Furlan]

can somebody find out WHY M18 corrupts GIF attachments ?? This is a MAJOR reason
why I am attaching all 3 GIF files for the second time. Second sets of GIF files
have been attached with NS4.7 !!  First set of 3 GIF files was attached with M18
and the files are corrupted.

Comment 8

[timeless]

Igor: I think that was fixed after m18, if you want me to look i can. -but I 
need to sleep-

Comment 9

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Confirmed with 113004 win32 build on NT.  Testcase follows. over to stylesystem.
not sure if we're right or wrong on this but in mozilla and nav4.x the text in
this table displays with color from the <body text="#FFFFFF"> and in IE the text
is displayed with the color from the <table style="color: #000000">.

<html>
<body text="#FFFFFF">

<table style="color:#000000">
<tr>
<td style="background:#CCCCCC">
This text is BLACK in IE 5.5  and it is WHITE in Navigator 4.x and Mozilla.
</td>
</table>
</html>

Comment 10

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Attachment: testcase demonstrating font color pronblem

Comment 11

[Pierre Saslawsky]

It is a quirk from Nav4x where the table cell color is not inherited from the 
table itself but from its parent element.  That quirk was emulated in Nav6.  In 
strict mode, it works correctly.  Marked invalid.

Comment 12

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Attachment: testcase showing that it works in strict mode

Comment 13

[Igor Furlan]

hmmm... what does it mean "strict" mode ? How should I switch "mozilla"
into "strict" mode ??

Igor

Comment 14

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Netscape's standard compliance QA team reorganised itself once again, so taking 
remaining non-tables style bugs. Sorry about the spam. I tried to get this done 
directly at the database level, but apparently that is "not easy because of the 
shadow db", "plus it screws up the audit trail", so no can do...

Comment 15

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

VERIFIED -- this now works correctly in all modes.

To switch to Standard mode, include an HTML 4.0 DOCTYPE in your document.