Re: UI is broken in Google-Chrome

On 21 October 2011 19:24, David W Studeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/21/2011 09:29 AM, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Does anybody else have a broken UI in Google Chrome. Iceweasel
>> (Firefox) has no problems. See attached screenshot.
>>
>> Google Chrome: 14.0.835.202
>
>
>  This is actually an IPCop web gui issue as rendered by KHTML/Webkit.
> It is not limited to Chrome. I often use Konqueror which gives me the
> choice of KDE's original KHTML or the QT port of Webkit and have seen
> this on IPCop from 1.4 to now. This is the case on Apple's Safari web
> browser as well as you would have probably guessed by now. There was a
> recent version of Internet Explorer that exhibited KHTML/Webkit behavior
> with IPCop's web gui but last time I tested I didn't see it.
>
>  I hadn't looked to see if anyone ever filed a bug report. Quite a lot
> of people have to be affected by this.
>
>  The gui isn't really broken as in functionality but that is definitely
> an annoying bug.

It's hard to pin down what's wrong. In Safari, some boxes display
differently on the same page (such as remote.cgi, or dhcp.cgi), and
others with similar content appear OK on one page, and broken on
others :(

I've scrutinised html page source to compare working pages with broken
ones, to no avail.

In remote.cgi, the display of the SSH Host Keys box is broken in
Safari, and by a process of elimination I worked out that the
fingerprint data was the culprit. The data string is 47 characters
long, i.e. e8:45:b8:54:f7:25:02:47:50:43:f2:11:cb:4e:5e:c8 without any
whitespace.

When you reduce the length of the string to round about 30 characters
or less, the box display problem goes away.

I'm not sure we can fix the root problem, if it is in the Webkit
display engine, for instance.

Eric

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