Broken Horizontal Scrolling

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#3976 Broken Horizontal Scrolling

Milestone: Slashdot

Status: open

Owner: nobody

Labels: Comments (601)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2007-11-08

Created: 2007-09-30

Creator: Michael Bunzel

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The following slashdot comment is not properly broken up, thereby causing horizontal scrolling.

http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=311979&threshold=3&commentsort=0&mode=nested&cid=20787837

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Michael Bunzel - 2007-09-30

priority: 5 --> 3
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Michael Bunzel - 2007-10-14

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Horizontal scrolling broke again at http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=326845&cid=20963375 .

Please correct me if this does work as intended, but as far as I understand Data.pm, breakHtml() should take care of breaking up comments in about all cases.

I was also unable to reproduce this behavior locally with a standalone (mock-up) version using code from Data.pm in CVS. Examining both URLs that aren't broken up properly it seems as if ampersands and urlencoded characters were considered "breaking tags". Due to obvious reasons I didn't want to test this theory by actually posting a comment, but at least using the preview button I can break the horizontal scrolling of the preview and evade the "That's an awful long string of letters there" lameness filter using a string like

xxxxxxx&xxxxx&xxxxxx&[....]

or

xxxxxxx%2dxxxxx%2dxxxxxx%2d[....]

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Michael Bunzel - 2007-10-14

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Michael Bunzel - 2007-10-24

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Happened again.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=336921&cid=21085599

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Chris Nandor - 2007-10-24

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What browser, version, and platform?

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Michael Bunzel - 2007-10-24

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Firefox 2.0.0.6, Konqueror 3.5.7 and Mozilla 1.7.13 on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, logged in or not, even on new browser profiles that have never seen slashdot before. I could get some friends to reproduce it (Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6 Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.6 (Ubuntu-feisty), Konqueror 3.5.7 and Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Gentoo) and according to the comment "congratulations on breaking slashdot" attached to one of the posts with a long URL, other people are also affected.

In the meanwhile I had an opportunity to view those comments in Internet Explorer 6 and could see they were rendered properly, although the long URLs were neither broken up by spaces nor did they have <nobr><wbr></nobr> in between. I'd say depending on whether this is behavior intended or not it's either a browser bug or an issue in the code.
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Michael Bunzel - 2007-10-24

Screenshot of broken scrolling

slashdot-scrolling.jpg

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Michael Bunzel - 2007-11-08

priority: 7 --> 5
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Michael Bunzel - 2007-11-08

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Another occurrence with user commenting on the bug

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=353135&threshold=-1&cid=21266629

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