This page blinks (no double buffering) for about a minute, and then renders poorly. Top 100 candidate?

V., this is the LAYER and ILAYER problem. I thought we already had a bug about this, but I don't see it in your bug list

For future reference, Troy, the bug is 3996. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3996 ***

After adding better support for absolutely positioned elements inside of a relatively positioned inline, things still look bad. In particular, the "SPONSORED LINKS" section is positioned differently. After a lot of effort in tracking down why, I think the problem is a bug in the way Navigator handles LAYER elements nested inside of ILAYER elements. This small example demonstrates the problem: <ilayer>Here's an ILAYER element with a nested LAYER_ <layer width=175 top=100 style="background-color:lightyellow">Text in the nested LAYER. Here's a floated image_ <img align=left width=100 height=100 src="house.gif"> and some text that follows.</layer></ilayer> Here's text after the ilayer. It's displayed inline. Now here's a BR_ <br clear="all">_ that (in Navigator) clears the floated image that's inside the nested LAYER Notice that Navigator is having the BR clear="all" clear the floater that's contained inside of the LAYER element. This is whacky, and doesn't behave the same way in NGLayout. Because the LAYER is moved out of the flow, its floated element has no impact on the flowed elements that follow Anyway, it seems this page is relying on that BR clear="all" element to push "SPONSORED LINKS" to where it's displayed on the screen I don't think that will (or should) ever work in NGLayout

Agreed. This is a duplicate of 3996.