96079 - Page www.mybc.com no longer rendered correctly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 66772

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Dan de Haan]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010817
BuildID:    2001081703

Up until Aug. 15, www.mybc.com rendered correctly in Mozilla.  Now it does not.
 Instead of having everything aligned in columns like it used to be, and
continues to be with other browsers I tried, (IE, Ns4), the sections all fall
below eachother.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ronald Tilby]

I can confirm the reported bad layout.  Mozilla 2001081703 vs. IE 5.50 both on
Windows 95.

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

another: http://www.stavanger-aftenblad.no/
observe strangely deserted white sides, then scroll down and you see the content
that used to fill it.

Comment 3

[jkeeble]

I also see this regression at www.mybc.com with linux build 2001082208 on Redhat 7.1

Comment 4

[Dan de Haan]

Same problem happens on http://www.planet-source-code.com (build 2001081703)

Comment 5

[karnaze (gone)]

This looks really bad (using m0.9.2 branch). Can someone please develop a 
reduced test case.

Comment 6

[R.K.Aa.]

studying http://www.stavanger-aftenblad.no/ i realized some stuff on page has
changed. Seems they revamped it and possibly introduced layers, called from a
css CLASS tag.

Comment 7

[Chris Petersen]

Ok, after going throught all the nested tables, I think I found the problem:
Font tag in improperly closed. Here's a sample of the code I commented


<!-- Font tag started outside of table -->
     <font size=2 face=verdana>
<!--  Third  table in a TD -->
     <table width="176" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="3">
        <tr><td>
                Font closed improperly in this nested table
<!-- closed inside of table -->
       </font>
          </td></tr>
        </table>

Comment 8

[Chris Petersen]

Attachment: Reduced test case

Comment 9

[Chris Petersen]

If you place the end font tag outside of table element, it renders page fine.

Comment 10

[Chris Petersen]

Attachment: Font tag closed outside of table- page renders fine

Comment 11

[karnaze (gone)]

The content model is incorrect. ->parser/harishd.

Comment 12

[Chris Petersen]

In the latest trunk (2001-08-24-03), the problem has been resolved. Based on
that, I'm marking a duplicate of 66772.

Comment 13

[Chris Petersen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 66772 ***