66791 - htmlwizard.net - phpmyadmin uses visibility:hidden for Moz and display:none for IE

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P3)

Description

[André Langhorst]

b: 2000-01-26-04
os: w2k
reproduceable

using phpmyadmin (www.htmlwizard.net) I discovered a very unpleasant (if 
working with large sets of collapsable data) alignment bug, mozilla does align 
all elements as if they were all decollapsed (IE does correctly (for 
comparison)), just watch the reduced attatched testcase and try to 
collapse/decollapse fields

Comment 1

[André Langhorst]

Attachment: reduced testcase

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The testcase has different codepaths for IE and non-IE DOM-capable browsers.  In
particular, it uses display:none for IE and visibility:hidden for non-IE
browsers.  The W3C spec says that boxes with display:none do not affect layout,
while those with visibility:hidden do.  So both browsers (IE and Mozilla) are
actually rendering this correctly; they are just being told to render totally
different things.

We should evangelize the authors of phpmyadmin to fix their product to use
display:none for all DOM-capable browsers.

Note: this is not completely a duplicate of bug 22517, but is related to it.

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning evangelism bugs to [e-mail].

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.

Comment 5

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

new url, phpMyAdmin 2.2.0 (coming out this sunday) fixes this, I got the latest
cvs build and it shows correctly (compared to 2.1.0). Marking thus.

Comment 6

[Brant Gurganus]

Verified
2002022703/WinXP