65628 - Race condition in table formatting with images

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Jubal Kessler]

Look at the top part of the right-hand frame and you'll see the navigation bar
comprising six images, justified from left to right instead of remaining
together, which is the original intent.

I've built a test case and noticed that it formats properly about 2 of every 3
times, which is why I think it might be a race condition in the parser. Putting
it in Parser - could be in HTML Tables?

To duplicate: visit http://cheeze.org/mozilla/tables2/ and hit the Reload button
several times. If you're running close to the same build of Mozilla on Linux as
I am, you *should* see instances where the images are spread far apart, instead
of remaining close together.

I may have narrowed down the test case too much, and encountered a problem of a
different nature as the Apple URL posted above - I believe you can encounter the
images-spread-far-apart problem all the time in Mozilla, so it isn't a race
condition, but my test case seems to be a race condition.

Seriously hope this helps somewhere, somehow, and for someone :-)

--Jubal

Comment 1

[Jubal Kessler]

Forgot to append my browser version.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010109.

Comment 2

[Keyser Sose]

WORKSFORME
Platform: PC
OS: Windows 98
Mozilla Build: 2001011604

Might be a Linux only problem.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I can't reproduce this... linux build 2001-01-16-08.

Comment 4

[Keyser Sose]

WORKSFORME
Platform: PC
OS: Linux 2.2.16
Mozilla Build: 2001011608

Reporter try creating a new profile and see if that fixes the problem.

Comment 5

[Keyser Sose]

Marking WORKSFORME in the meantime. Reopen if it still occurs after using the
latest nightlies and creating a new profile.

Comment 6

[bsharma]

updated qa contact.

Comment 7

[bsharma]

Verified on:
build: 2001-04-16-06-Mtrunk
platform: WinNT

The images loads fine when I click Reload several times.