Closed Bug 4142 Opened 26 years ago Closed 26 years ago

many page-framing tables render badly

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P1)

x86
Windows 98
defect

Tracking

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VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: yoz, Assigned: karnaze)

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Details

The page-framing tables of most of the subsections of this site render badly, especially the "contacts" and "DNA" sections, which have the center body cells stretched massively. (This may be a problem with our HTML, but this was pretty much the only way we found to code the table so they'd render how we wanted on NS 3 & 4 and IE 3 & 4. If you find horrible problems with our HTML, I'd be very grateful if you could let me know) I'm not sure if Bugzilla's got my Mozilla version right, but it's M3.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Priority: P1
Target Milestone: M6
Moving to M6
Moving to M8.
At this time, I don't see the center body cells stretched "massively" as reported (although I expect this was similar to www.alphalinux.com and a few others that have been fixed). yoz@yoz.com: how does the /contacts/ page look to you in a recent build. I note three remaining problems (all known/filed as other bugs): 1) <a><img></a> line-spacing bug #5900 generates white vertical gaps between some of the images. 2) "<font><p>" -- residual font bug #911 (body of the text is in the 'wrong' font face) 3) New bug: parsing of '<<' differs on 5.0 -- filed as bug #6960 (in the '/contacts/' page this actually caused a small distortion in the tables due to an _unbreakable_ text line -- so it's not a tables bug; just a 4.xP parsing buglet). [Note to yoz@yoz.com: When you want to use the character '<' as part of the _readable_ text, you _should_ use the sequence '&lt;' wherever you want the reader to see '<'. See any reference on HTML for details.] So, ChrisK -- mark WORKSFORME or FIXED or DUPLICATE? I dunno ...
Marking fixed per John's analysis.
Chris K - is this fixed? Not marked as so
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 26 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Verifying bug fixed excluding the references to duplicate bugs.
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