What is wrong with this page?

[Rick Cook]

No, it's not mine, but I ran across it and I'm curious why it displays
in such a horribly screwed up manner under Mozilla 1.75. Nearly
everything overlaps.

http://www.originalmartialartistry.com/album1_001.htm

--RC (who's hoping to avoid doing likewise.)

[Jim Moe]

Rick Cook wrote:

No, it's not mine, but I ran across it and I'm curious why it displays
in such a horribly screwed up manner under Mozilla 1.75. Nearly
everything overlaps.

Well, the menu buttons are supposed to overlap the left border
background. Other than that, it looks like it displays as intended.
Mozilla v1.7.5.
The fixed width design is unfortunate. And the fixed font size. And the
inline styles. And the hard-coded positioning. And the ridiculously over
sized news in the 3rd column; it distracts from the main content.
Did you notice the METAs? Neither Keywords nor Description have
anything to do with the page. It's all advertising for the company that
makes the layout tool.

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[Rick Cook]

Jim Moe wrote:

Rick Cook wrote:

No, it's not mine, but I ran across it and I'm curious why it displays
in such a horribly screwed up manner under Mozilla 1.75. Nearly
everything overlaps.

Well, the menu buttons are supposed to overlap the left border
background. Other than that, it looks like it displays as intended.
Mozilla v1.7.5.
The fixed width design is unfortunate. And the fixed font size. And
the inline styles. And the hard-coded positioning. And the ridiculously
over sized news in the 3rd column; it distracts from the main content.
Did you notice the METAs? Neither Keywords nor Description have
anything to do with the page. It's all advertising for the company that
makes the layout tool.

Okay, I'm confused. When I look at the page at 100 percent, the titles
overlap at the top, the contact information overlaps at the bottom and
there's some overlap among the paragraphs. At 120 percent the overlap is
a lot worse. At 75 percent the page displays as intended.

This is with Mozilla 1.7.5

--RC

[Jim Moe]

Rick Cook wrote:

Okay, I'm confused. When I look at the page at 100 percent, the titles
overlap at the top, the contact information overlaps at the bottom and
there's some overlap among the paragraphs. At 120 percent the overlap is
a lot worse. At 75 percent the page displays as intended.

Ah! I see what you are talking about. By zooming the text the sections
start overlapping each other.
This is characteristic of using pixel positioning to place the
different sections without considering the space between them. Whoever did
the layout (a "dee-zyner") is very much thinking in print media terms
where everything is fixed in place: font sizes do not change, the canvas
size does not change, only one browser in existence, etc.

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