Gunlaug Sørtun wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm trying to catch a bug in IE8rc1, hoping it can be found and
> killed before they release IE8 final.
>
> Bugnote: <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/notes/notes_09_0308.html>
> ...and this bug randomly makes the footer on all my regular pages
> collapse - disappear.
Update: Bug confirmed by PPK and Bruno Fassino off-list, in addition to
on-list responses. Thanks all.
Further investigation shows that the missing footer is a symptom - not
the real problem. IE8rc1 quits rendering at an end-tag on one of the
wrapper-divs above the footer in the source-code, which means both the
footer and the image on top left on all pages go missing since they're
both near the end - below the quitting point.
For testing-purposes: when I delete an end-tag just above where IE8rc1
quits rendering - makes the start/end tag number uneven and non-valid,
IE8rc1 will render the entire page most of the time. This indicates that
the browser reads a sort of [EOF] for rendering into the markup at the
wrong place - too early. The source-code is completely loaded (View
source), but the rendering engine is buggy.
Since not all my pages have equally complex structure - despite being
based on the same template, IE8rc1 appears to handle a number of them ok
nearly all the time. This confirms the unstable nature of this bug, and
explains why not all who tested managed to provoke the bug on my site.
this is for the IE-team to fix, and I can't think of a reliable solution
at our end anyway. I certainly don't want another round of fixing Layout
bugs in IE, now that the 'hasLayout' mess in IE7 and older versions is
- more or less - behind us.
regards
Georg
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http://www.gunlaug.no
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