[imp] imp-h3-4.0.3 questions

[Oliver Kuhl]

Hi Jan,

Jan Schneider wrote:
> Zitat von Oliver Kuhl <okuhl at netcologne.de>:
> 
>>Jan Schneider wrote:
>>
>>>Zitat von Jie Gao <J.Gao at isu.usyd.edu.au>:
>>>
>>>>- From time to time, when I get to the INBOX, the index list loses
>>>>its format, in other words, the html "table" seems not to work at
>>>>all; clicking on INBOX again often gets the table format back.
>>>>Any idea why this is so?
>>>
>>>Because Gecko is broken.
>>
>>this is a big issue I think. I couldn't find the corresponding ticket on
>>this at bugs.mozilla.org. Do you know the ticket number for this issue?
>>Not easy to find out - "table layout" returned about 200 tickets. Maybe
>>we can force this issue to be fixed soon.
> 
> And there are probably dozens referring to this issue. There are also 
> *several* bug reports on bugs.horde.org, and it has been discussed on 
> this list several times.

I forgot to look at the buglist, sorry.

>>The other point is, that IMP is the only application/website I know
>>which in fact has this problem. The question is, if there is a
>>workarround for this. Does anyone know exactly what makes Gecko
>>corrupting the layout?
> 
> Slashdot is the most prominent site that suffers from this bug. 
> Searching for that should lead you to the relevant ticket on Bugzilla.

I read the comments on the relevant tickets and unfortunately didn't
find any information on how to work arround this bug. Our current
webmailer here based on a some years old cvs-version of imp doesn't have
this problem, so I hoped to find something about it.

There was a comment on some about:config values to get Firefox working
correctly but they didn't work for me.

>>The problem is, that if customers (or decision makers) see this error,
>>they will normaly not know or (want to) understand that it's a browser
>>issue.
> 
> Then tell them. This will be fixed in Firefox 1.1, and noone has come 
> up with a solution to workaround that bug in IMP yet.

So this will be the only real solution, else try 'Ctrl+ Ctrl-'. :-/

Regards,
   Oliver.