Closed Bug 778030 Opened 13 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Google News displays incorrectly without JavaScript

Categories

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Product:
Web Compatibility
Component:
Site Reports
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: VanillaMozilla, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

(Whiteboard: [country-all])

If JavaScript is disabled, the first image overlaps the text. Near the bottom of the page the still clips of videos are also duplicated. The problems occur in version 14; also in previous versions. Verified in Linux and Windows. The problem does not occur in Google Chrome or Chromium.
When I load the page (with scripting enabled), the text starts out overlapping the image, but it then slides over to the side so it no longer overlaps.
Interestingly, if I spoof my UA string to be "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2) AppleWebKit/536.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1090.0 Safari/536.6", the text does not overlap at all in Firefox, scripting enabled or disabled.
Moving to Tech Evangelism.
Assignee: nobody → english-us
Component: Untriaged → English US
Product: Firefox → Tech Evangelism
Moving to Desktop.
Assignee: english-us → nobody
Component: English US → Desktop
Whiteboard: [country-all]
Probably unfortunate, but I don't think there is a lot we can do. Aka a lot of all modern sites will break without JS. Feel free to contact Google. I will close this as WONTFIX as it is the same in all browsers and the chances to get it fixed by Google is near 0. TO note that they provide an RSS feed. <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="…">
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Tech Evangelism → Web Compatibility
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