95963 - divx-digest.com - DivX Digest software page is messed up

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Ariel Gonzalez]

Build: 2001-08-17-03, Win2k

Just load the URL... the page will just look wrong. Some pretty bad placement
issues. Compare with IE if you can't tell.

Comment 1

[timeless]

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.divx-digest.com%2Fsoftware%2Findex.html&doctype=HTML+3.2
Ignore warnings about unrecognized attributes.

I couldn't get useful error reporting if i used a 4.x thing.

notable warnings which are relatively serious
<!--- invalid sgml comment --->
<a href="bar?baz&foo">
<img width=this%should%have%been%quoted>
< Not a valid tag  should have used ampersand L T semi and ampersand G T semi >
<a><font>This </a>next close tag is unexpected </font>
Same problem for </td>

If the layout is still bad after making the html compliant w/ something, please
attach a testcase, otherwise this bug is evang fodder.

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

This page has numerous html errors: overlapping tags, missing end tags etc. I
think that this is probably a good candidate for evangelism but it is also a
good illustration of how bad coding intended to invoke buggy behavior in old
browsers to get the desired layout causes Mozilla problems. 

I corrected many of the errrors on this page and the first one that helped at
all was closing the font tag that occurs just before the disclaimer.  This
resulted in their 'gray' table being displayed without the misplaced right
column but resulted in other layout problems such as the 'gray' table being
displaced far to the right.

I think this is a good example of where better handling of invalid html in
quirks mode would be useful. It will take forever to 'unlearn' the old bad
habits of html authors and it is much more effective to get the browser to
better handle such invalid html in quirks mode.

So, you can either dupe this against some of the exising parser bugs or give it
to evangelism. Whatever.

Comment 3

[Keyser Sose]

Evangelism...

Comment 4

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

really moving

Comment 5

[Ariel Gonzalez]

Build: 2001-08-29-09, Win2k

the page looks just fine now. Changing to WFM.