Upgraded Mozilla still renders wrong
Hi: I just upgraded my Suse 9.1 to Mozilla 1.7.5 using the .rpm from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla Unfortunately, this version still renders some pages horribly. I know that Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, and even Firefox (vanilla from Mozilla.org) renders these correctly on Linux: http://shop.mellesgriot.com/products/ProductLine.asp?plga=020160&mscssid= For that site, text is rendered on top of itself and the menu in the upper left is messed up. http://www.travelocity.com/?Service=TRAVELOCITY For the Travelocity site, notice the link overlaying the "Search flights" button. Things get really screwed when I: 1. select "Minors" equal to some number >0, 2. then the "Minor ages at time of travel" drop-down is overlayed by a link, so it cannot be used. Anyone else notice these rendering problems on their Suse 9.1 installations? I am using 32-bit. Thanks. -- ____________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle@sandia.gov
Christopher, I have Mozilla 1.7.5 installed from a binary tarball I got directly from the Mozilla.org site. It is a GTK2 build. On Monday 28 February 2005 10:41, Christopher Carlen wrote:
Hi:
I just upgraded my Suse 9.1 to Mozilla 1.7.5 using the .rpm from
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla
Unfortunately, this version still renders some pages horribly. I know that Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, and even Firefox (vanilla from Mozilla.org) renders these correctly on Linux:
http://shop.mellesgriot.com/products/ProductLine.asp?plga=020160&mscs sid=
For that site, text is rendered on top of itself and the menu in the upper left is messed up.
I see only one obvious imperfection in how my Mozilla renders this page: the "Search" button in the upper-left is misaligned w.r.t. the text field to which it presumably applies. It is shifted upward several pixesl--about one third of the button's and the field's height. Its horizontal placement appears correct--it abuts the text field on its right precisely. I see exactly the same thing in Firefox.
This page appears to render perfectly in both Mozilla 1.7.5 and in Firefox.
For the Travelocity site, notice the link overlaying the "Search flights" button. Things get really screwed when I: 1. select "Minors" equal to some number >0, 2. then the "Minor ages at time of travel" drop-down is overlayed by a link, so it cannot be used.
I cannot replicate this (mis-) behavior either in Mozilla or Firefox.
Anyone else notice these rendering problems on their Suse 9.1 installations? I am using 32-bit.
I, too, am using x86 (32-bit) Linux. You could try getting the 1.7.5 tarball. Installing won't interfere with anything else on your system (nor will it integrate with menus, say, or MIME or file-extension mappings), so you can easily experiment and then either toss it or make it your default browser, as I do.
Thanks.
Christopher R. Carlen
Randall Schulz
Just a passing thought. I've seen just the symptoms you talk about on all sorts of browsers if the text size is increased (or a large minimum text size is chosen). It's not a problem with the browser but the CSS specifying absolute sizes for divs, etc.. Cheers, Colin Fraser Randall R Schulz wrote:
Christopher,
I have Mozilla 1.7.5 installed from a binary tarball I got directly from the Mozilla.org site. It is a GTK2 build.
On Monday 28 February 2005 10:41, Christopher Carlen wrote:
Hi:
I just upgraded my Suse 9.1 to Mozilla 1.7.5 using the .rpm from
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla
Unfortunately, this version still renders some pages horribly. I know that Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, and even Firefox (vanilla from Mozilla.org) renders these correctly on Linux:
http://shop.mellesgriot.com/products/ProductLine.asp?plga=020160&mscs sid=
For that site, text is rendered on top of itself and the menu in the upper left is messed up.
I see only one obvious imperfection in how my Mozilla renders this page: the "Search" button in the upper-left is misaligned w.r.t. the text field to which it presumably applies. It is shifted upward several pixesl--about one third of the button's and the field's height. Its horizontal placement appears correct--it abuts the text field on its right precisely.
I see exactly the same thing in Firefox.
This page appears to render perfectly in both Mozilla 1.7.5 and in Firefox.
For the Travelocity site, notice the link overlaying the "Search flights" button. Things get really screwed when I: 1. select "Minors" equal to some number >0, 2. then the "Minor ages at time of travel" drop-down is overlayed by a link, so it cannot be used.
I cannot replicate this (mis-) behavior either in Mozilla or Firefox.
Anyone else notice these rendering problems on their Suse 9.1 installations? I am using 32-bit.
I, too, am using x86 (32-bit) Linux. You could try getting the 1.7.5 tarball. Installing won't interfere with anything else on your system (nor will it integrate with menus, say, or MIME or file-extension mappings), so you can easily experiment and then either toss it or make it your default browser, as I do.
Thanks.
Christopher R. Carlen
Randall Schulz
Colin Fraser wrote:
Just a passing thought. I've seen just the symptoms you talk about on all sorts of browsers if the text size is increased (or a large minimum text size is chosen). It's not a problem with the browser but the CSS specifying absolute sizes for divs, etc..
Cheers,
Colin Fraser
Thanks for the input. That was the problem. I never suspected that there would be pages that couldn't rearrange properly if I set the min font size to something preferrable. Good day! -- ____________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle@sandia.gov
http://shop.mellesgriot.com/products/ProductLine.asp?plga=020160&mscssid= http://www.travelocity.com/?Service=TRAVELOCITY Anyone else notice these rendering problems on their Suse 9.1 installations? I am using 32-bit.
Nope, they work just fine for me, with both the Mozilla package, and the Firefox one... -- James Ogley james@usr-local-bin.org GNOME for SuSE: http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms
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