Closed Bug 2460 Opened 26 years ago Closed

Many problems (messed-up table and background color/foreground text color most prominent)

Categories

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P2)

x86
Windows 98
defect

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VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: kcanders, Assigned: rickg)

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Details

I just checked my fully HTML 4.0-compliant page (listed above) in the 1-15-99 build of NGLayout and noticed some glaring problems. Most prominent is the fact that the specified background color (black) and specified foreground color (white) are not rendered. In addition, the table at the bottom is horribly rendered (it's width is not 100%, as it should be, and the text runs off the table borders to the right). Also, as is filed under a different bug that I know of, the Javascript is misinterpreted (at least in View Source, where the entirety of the script is reduced in the display to </ between the starting and ending <SCRIPT> tags).
Assignee: troy → rickg
Component: Layout → Parser
The background/foreground color problems are known problems when they're specified as HTML attributes of the BODY element and the parser auto-generates the BODY element. I'm not seeing any problem with the table at the bottom, but that may because I have a newer build. If there is a problem it's probably a parser problem as well...
The _table_at_the_bottom_ is showing the <table width=nn%> type of behaviour (see bug #1474). When you resize/reflow everything layouts out per spec. Of course, it seems that this bug is only visible for certain combinations of OS and for optimized browsers. (I am running nightly Jan 15 win95 optimized). Cheers .. John
I have posted two screenshots of the bottom of this page (the table): the first shows it after the initial load; the second is after a resize/reflow. http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~buslib/2460/bad-table.html This is with the Jan 15 build of viewer.exe.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Fixed by improvements to new DTD system; also fixed one in comment parsing.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
marking verified that the background/foreground colors are correct. Will open new bugs for the table re-size problem, still not fixed in 1/27 build.
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