Re: Dimensions and positioning rendering quirks.

Martijn <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Oct 2011 15:42:27 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.dom
Message-ID <CAEhs2LdSS=_jFruFRducxh-MDSKMw-d26cUAP0RiueZwju_o5A@mail.gmail.com>
Sorry, no idea what is going on.
You also might want to provide a testcase that shows the issue.

Regards,
Martijn

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Dan Tsimbala <[email protected]> wrote:
> So any idea?
>
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Dan Tsimbala <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Sorry for late reply, here's the link to it:
>> http://www.freeimagehosting.net/463e8
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Martijn <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Dan Tsimbala <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I'm facing quite annoying complications when attempting to finish a task
>>> > that only appear to be in Firefox. I don't seem to figure out nor the
>>> > reason/logic behind the problem nor the solution for it. I would really
>>> > appreciate any help to solve the problem or at least understand if it's
>>> > gonna be solved.
>>> >
>>> > I have identically positioned and sized elements sets that I use to
>>> build
>>> > some kind of visualization of time scale. The only difference between
>>> all of
>>> > them is their orientation and position of parent container. Those should
>>> be
>>> > completely irrelevant factors, but instead I get quite different results
>>> of
>>> > rendering each elements set (difference is one pixel all the time but in
>>> > different directions). Attached is a screenshot of the resuts I get. The
>>>
>>> I don't see a screenshot, probably attachments aren't passed through.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Martijn
>>>
>>> > positionging breaks randomly on most reflows of vertical dimension
>>> (resize
>>> > window, scrolling, etc.), so just scrolling the page gives different
>>> > variations of positioning errors. I've tried already approaching
>>> solution of
>>> > the problem from different angles (positioning from differnt constaint
>>> > dimensions - bottom, top; using different means to fill area with color
>>> -
>>> > bg, border) now and still same result. The most annoying part is it does
>>> not
>>> > happen in FF on a different machine running XP (I run Win 7), and on my
>>> > machine it is happening for most major latest versions of FF (5, 6, 7).
>>> Even
>>> > wierder - some time ago (two weeks or maybe more) - I reacall it was
>>> working
>>> > fine (at least that's what I remember), so I assume this has something
>>> to do
>>> > with system updates.
>>> >
>>> > (Have just rechecked - on XP machine all element sets from the
>>> screenshot
>>> > are completely identical, differing only in orientation and position as
>>> > aexpected)
>>> >
>>> > Can this be smoothing algorithm problem?
>>> >
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