7734 - Second paragraph does not include "*Buy" gif and boldface word.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 3688

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[cpeterso]

The second paragraph is supposed to include a star1.gif and a boldface word
"Buy" in the middle of one of the sentences. Compare the sentence in two
different browsers:

Mozilla M6: "My  ratings are based on ..."
IE4 and IE5: "My *Buy ratings are based on ..."

Comment 1

[harishd]

FYI:  Page loads correctly from the hard drive but is problematic when loaded
over the network.

Comment 2

[rickg]

Agreed -- please verify if its in the parser by dumping the parsers input to a
text stream an checking it. If we're not getting it, then we have a netlib bug.

Comment 3

[harishd]

The problem seems to be on the server side!!!

If you viewsource the page in Nav4.5 or IE5.0, the paragraph that contains the
image (*Buy) has a mark up

My <SPAN CLASS=smallfont>
      <IMG SRC=/inc/images/star1.gif WIDTH=10 HEIGHT=10 SPACE=0 BORDER=0>Buy
    </SPAN> ratings

but in Gecko it is

My <FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetiva" SIZE=1>
     <B>
      <STYLE FONT: 8pt/10pt>
       <IMG SRC=/inc/images/star1.gif WIDTH=10 HEIGHT=10 VSPACE=0 BORDER=0>
         Buy
      </STYLE>
     </B>
    </FONT> ratings

Note: This how the mark up looked when I checked the raw buffer ( buffer prior
to entering NetLib)

Comment 4

[Claudius Gayle]

This is the now age-old client sniffing problem. The server is sending crappy HTML to poor Gecko, that's why it lookd fine when
loaded 'from the drive'. There are a couple of other bugs on this page that are results of the same problem. Check out bug 3688

Comment 5

[harishd]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3688 ***

Comment 6

[Chris Petersen]

Agreed. This is a duplicate of 3688.