If you load the Slashdot main page with Mozilla and look at the columns at the right side you'll see that the heading for the "Freshmeat" section is not clickable. Looking at the side with another browser (e.g., Netscape) you'll see that there is a <a> tag. It's deep down in a table. Since the source view dialog in Mozilla is not working either I cannot show that Mozilla actually sees the tag but I have no reason to believe the server is playing games. The source for the table row is <TR bgcolor="#006666"> <TD valign=top><FONT size=4 color="#FFFFFF" face="arial,helvetica"><B><A HREF=http://freshmeat.net><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF">Freshmeat</FONT></A></B></FONT></TD> </TR>

Testing with the 2000-04-22-08-M16 nightly binary on WinNT, none of the headers for the 'slashboxes' down the right side of the slashdot page work. What they have in common is no quote marks around the href attribute value. <A> elements with those quote marks work. The quoted HTML snippet above is a typical example. Sending to the HTML Element component; resummarizing. The slashdot page refers to no DTD.

I'll take this

Changed summary. Will attach a reduced case.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33397 ***

Verified duplicate.

These symptoms (don't want to gues about the reason) are back. The last three nightly builds show exactly the same problem. Also, on this specific page the fonts in the right column look differently. I don't mark bug #33397 as reopen since I don't know whether the reason is the same. I'm now running the 2001010621 build which is fine. Any later version does not show the effects of the <A> tag and the fonts in the right column in general seem to be too large.

changing QA contact

This could be due to bug 64622.

Fix is in...

This bug is *not* fixed in the 20010111021 nightly built. If it will be tomorrow ignore this but from the mails I got this is expected to be fixed. Look at the right column on the slashdot page: the "freshmeat" title is supposed to be clickable but it isn't.

Fix landed on 01/11/01. So, please verify with 01/12/01 build. Thanx Marking FIXED again.

Adding testcase KW.

Reassigning QA Contact for all open and unverified bugs previously under Lorca's care to Gerardo as per phone conversation this morning.

qa contact updated.

When I load http://slashdot.org/ and click on "Freahmeat" link, an application error dialog appears (Dr. Watson dialog). Verified on: build: 2000-03-07-10-Mtrunk platform: WinNT.

Uhmm, that sounds like a different problem. Bindu, could you please open up a new bug on layout. The problem you are seeing doesn't sound like parser. The original problem is fixed. So, marking it fixed again.

Verified on: build: 2000-03-12-22-Mtrunk platform: WinNT

SPAM. HTML Element component is deprecated, changing to Layout component. See bug 88132 for details.

Come on Bugzilla, you can do it...