Go to url or load the testcase attached (in a zip file - HTML doc and 3 images). On the page are two tables. The first table is for comparison purposes (includes an image that shows the top of the model's hair). The second table has two cells. The first cell has a nested table and the second cell has a flash (the rest of the model's image). When the page loads, or on shift/reload, the second cell (with the flash) is shifted to the right so that the top of the model's hair (in the first table) is displaced from the cell with the rest of the model's image. When the page is reloaded, the cell with the flash shifts back to the left to bring the model image in line. I think the problem has something to do with the six 1x1 images and the colspan attribute in the nested table. I don't think it is a flash problem I could reproduce the 'shift' problem without it. However, I am including it in the simplified testcase in order to see the image displacement.

Tested with 9_27_08_trunk build on Win2000

The testcase renders consistently for me in IE5.5/Win and Gecko. I edited the 'iVillage.com' area to be five pixels more narrow, like this: <td width="155"> <table width="155" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr valign="top"> <td width="1"><img src="t_003.gif" width="1" height="1"></td> <td><img src="t_003.gif" width="7" height="1"></td> <td><img src="t_003.gif" width="13" height="1"></td> <td><img src="t_003.gif" width="127" height="1"></td> <td><img src="t_003.gif" width="5" height="1"></td> <td><img src="t_003.gif" width="1" height="1"></td> </tr> ...and the Flash and top image appeared to line up in both browsers. (I may be a pixel or two off; it was hard to be sure.) I checked cosmopolitan.com and its layout was slightly off in IE5.5/Win as well. This would appear to be an error in the site authoring, not the browsers. Unless I'm way off, this bug should be moved over to Tech Evangelism.

Eric - there is some small difference when the page is reloaded. But on shift/reload, there is a big gap (estimating 15 pixels). Are you seeing the big gap? Sometimes I had to shift/reload several times to get it.

I changed the page with Eric's modified widths and now Netscape syncs up with IE and there is no 'shifting' in Netscape. However, now I'm getting the 15 pixel gap for both Netscape and IE (which then is a matter of evangelizing as Eric said). The question remains the difference between Netscape and IE given the original widths - is that a bug? Otherwise, the whole thing can be evangelized.

I think this is dup of 156731. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 156731 ***

Jerry - how is this a duplicate of 156731 - as I indicated in the bug, I can reproduce this without image/flash - the dup bug looks like it's an image issue. At any rate, Eric is going to contact the customer to modify their code.