84759 - ask.com - Incorrectly rendered tables on Ask Jeeves results

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P1)

Description

[susie wyshak]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (WinNT; U)
BuildID:    2001060504

Tables which should appear next to each other are stacking on top of each other, 
thus adding too much space and pushing results below the fold on a laptop / low 
resolution screen.

Issue occurs on the Mac too.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to www.aj.com
2. Ask any question like "why are manatees fat?"


Actual Results:  Featured ad appears then content that should have appeared to 
the left of it is below.



Expected Results:  Check in Netscape 4.x or IE and you will see the tables are 
rendered incorrectly. The Featured Sponsor should be right justified. 

This is a leading website thus important that content appear correctly.

Comment 1

[Arun Ranganathan]

Confirming this bug, and changing status to new.
bclary, here's what's going on: good old ilayer.  Ask Jeeves is making use of
iLayer, which is what is corking the display and pushing the actual useful
information to the bottom of the page while creating lots of space for an
(eventually non-existent) inline layer.  This is a great (and highly important)
candidate for evangelism.
CC'ing Eric Meyer; welcome aboard!

Comment 2

[susie wyshak]

The problem occurs with their corporate products too. Example here with Dell Ask 
Dudley:

http://answerapp.us.dell.com/us/en/askdudley/question.asp?ask=advanced+port+repl
icator+driver&qSource=0&origin=0&site_name=dellonly&metasearch=yes

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

I don't see this problem with the layout anymore. There JS now looks for
appVersion >= 5 and uses getElementById. -> FIXED

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

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

Comment 5

[Brant Gurganus]

Due to an absent character set reference, the "ñ" character in the footer
appears as a question mark.  Some site graphics do not appear to load and tables
look misaligned

Comment 6

[Michael Gabriel]

WFM 2002060704 trunk

Comment 7

[Michael Gabriel]

nobody disagreeing
charset is there
no js errors
-> fixed