[Bug 241050] [NEW] Rendering issues in CalPoly's uPortal

[Arlo]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I've encountered some strange behavior with Firefox 3's rendering in our
uPortal instance.  These rendering issues do not appear in any other
browser I've tried.  (FF2, IE7, Konqueror)

The portal theme uses a number of nested tables, yes I know it's ugly,
but it's how this uPortal theme works.  On each tab can be any number of
columns containing channels/portlets.  Most of our tabs render
correctly.  However channels with certain content screw up the overall
rendering of columns in FF3.  In these cases the td columns are squeezed
to the right side.  Another side-effect is that the rendering of
background image in the header is chopped.  Also, in this particular
case, content that was text-align: left is now displayed as text-align:
right.

Too see what I'm talking about extract the attachment.

InitialRenderBug.png shows the initial bug.  You can see the image at
the top is chopped and the columns are squished to the side.  The
contents of Groups Manager are aligned right when they should be aligned
left.

ExtractedRender.png shows a screenshot of the same page when I saved the
page and copied in our CSS theme.  This is the same thing you'll see
when you look at WithDash.html.  An important point here is that viewing
the saved page does not exhibit any of the rendering issues that viewing
the live page has.

When I minimized either of the channels (which hides their inner
content) the page rendered correctly.  You can see this in
GroupsManagerMinimized.png and DashboardMinimized.png. Only when the
contents of both channels are exposed do these rendering issues occur.

This bug happens with a few other channels, not just these two.

As I can't reproduce this problem in a standalone html file I'd be
willing to work with someone and give them access to the server on my
dev box so that they can debug the problem on a live server.  If you're
interested in doing this contact me anytime M-F 9-5.

AIM: arlocwhite
Yahoo: arlo.white

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jun 18 11:55:48 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/hostname/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/maven-2.0.7/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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Rendering issues in CalPoly's uPortal
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