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Comment 5 for bug 132154

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Damian Gaweda (damian-choosebrilliant) wrote :

I've spend some time trying to solve the problem and I came to the conclusion that this may be a browser bug.

Here are the tests I performed on div#applications (http://launchpad.net),
which is not visible in OmniWeb. Tested with OmniWeb-5.5.4-v607.17 on MacOS X 10.4.10.

I removed all additional css in html <head>, leaving only the main style.css file.

1. div#applications { position: relative; }
   - no effect, div positioned but invisible

2. div#applications { position: absolute; top: 10px; left: 10px; }
   - no effect, div positioned but invisible

3. div#applications { position: fixed; top: 10px; left: 10px; }
   - no effect, div positioned but invisible

4. div#applications { position: fixed; top: 10px; left: 10px; }
   - div IS VISIBLE!

5. div#applications { visibility: visible; }
   - no effect

6. div#applications { display: inline; }
   - no effect

7. div#applications { display: block; }
   - no effect

8. div#applications { z-index: 9999; }
   - no effect

8. div#applications { opacity: 1; }
   - no effect

9. Using FireBug, I checked css properties inherited by div#applications from its parent elements.
   - nothing suspicious

9. Disabled JavaScript support in the browser
   - div appears after a few clicks on 'refresh'. Refresh again and it's gone. Seems random. Couldn't
     form a pattern to it.

It looks like an OmniWeb bug to me.
Obviously setting all invisible elements to position: static (which seems to work in this example) is not a solution.
I'm going to look further into this problem tomorrow using the
Divide-and-Conquer method (thanks for suggestion, Steve).