Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 57939
Konqueror displays some web page text running down the side of the page
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:38:51 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) Description of problem: I administer a web site. I have a page that displays correctly on ms internet explorer, both new and older netscapes ms/linux/solaris, mozilla browser. But Konqueror displays some text segments running down the side of the page. The page is html only. I have an embedded style sheet with a set of Span specs for IE and Layer specs for netscape and relatives. I then overlap these in the body of the document. This normally works such that IE reads the span tags and the others read the Layer tags and all is well. Even in the Konqueror case, only some of the Layer tags seem to be misread. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use Konqueror Browser 2.go to URL listed above 3. Actual Results: The page displayed incorrectly. This would not necessarily be a Konqueror bug, but since the page displays correctly in other browsers I am familar with, either there is a bug, or the browser functions differently than the others in a manner that I am not familiar with. Expected Results: Expect to see defined blocks of text with headers and photos place neatly around them. Go to the same url using the Netscape or Mozilla browser to see the page displayed correctly. Additional info: If you believe that this browser is "working as intended" please give me an explanation so I know what I need to fix in my html. I am willing to accept that I don't know all possible variants of browser interpretation, but I also think that Konqueror would be enhanced by backward compatiblity at least with Netscape and Mozilla.
I'm not overly familiar with span and layer tags; but it does look like konqueror assumes they're 0 pixels wide by default. I've passed this on to the base developers, awaiting their feedback.
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