87917 - http://www.nira.com is horribly broken

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P5)

Description

[Dan Rosen]

The NIRA website, http://www.nira.com, is horribly broken. If you look at the
source, the reason why is obvious. You see a lot of code that looks like this
(pay attention to start and end tags):

<layer>
  <nolayer>
    <div style="position:absolute">
  </nolayer>
  <!-- ...content here... -->
  <nolayer>
    </div>
  </nolayer>
</layer>

The author probably intended for the content to fall between layer tags if we
have layers, or between absolute-positioned div tags if not. But this document
is obviously not well-formed.

The kicker is, IE 5 renders this page just fine. So here's a bug for you. Happy
birthday... :)

Comment 1

[harishd]

layers --> Evang.

Comment 2

[Dan Rosen]

It's not a layers bug. We don't support layers, nor should we -- this has
nothing to do with layers.

This bug is assigned to *Parser* because IE seems to support some
non-well-formed HTML which we don't, and I suspect the particular pattern:

<foo>
  <nofoo>
    <something-else>
  </nofoo>
  <!-- ...content... -->
  <nofoo>
    </something-else>
  </nofoo>
</foo>

is a common mistake which we might (or might not) accomodate for. If you don't
want to fix this, WONTFIX is fine. I just filed this bug to bring this to your
attention.

Comment 3

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

If we decide to WONTFIX this for Parser, we still need to make this an
Evangelism bug so they can contact the site, and other sites with the same problem.

Comment 4

[harishd]

ok..I took a shot :). Will see if this could be fixed.

Comment 5

[harishd]

--> 0.9.6

Comment 6

[harishd]

Moving lower priority bugs to m1.0.

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Bugs targeted at mozilla1.0 without the mozilla1.0 keyword moved to mozilla1.0.1 
(you can query for this string to delete spam or retrieve the list of bugs I've 
moved)

Comment 8

[harishd]

This bug has been marked "future" because the original netscape engineer working 
on this is over-burdened. If you feel this is an error, that you or another
known resource will be working on this bug, or if it blocks your work in some way
 -- please attach your concern to the bug for reconsideration. 

Comment 9

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

The site looks fine now. Resolving WORKSFORME.