Developer Blogs: CSS screwed up in Firefox 1.0/1.5

[CirTap]

Hi,

I thought I drop this note here, since the issue "appears" in this project's documentation -- more or less
Besides that: kudos and greatest respect for the great work of the Documentation Team and of course, the Developers!! You girls and guys really rock!

However, I dunno if it's just a spooky occult coincidence in each setup of all the browser I used and tried to verify (WInXP/pro with FF1.0.8 + FF1.5.0.6, MSIE 6, Opera 8.5/9) or a general symptom - but if so, why has no one ever noticed?

In Firefox and Opera the user-comment form in the Developer Blogs cause the page to widen up to the extreme, rendering half of the information unreadable as it disappears to the right of the window, requires to scoll horizontal or resize the window to ~2200px .. glad to have dual-screens 
In MSIE the content drops down below the navigation (float error I presume) and requires to scroll down everytime.

With the help of the Firefox WebDeveloper extension I was able to apply a User Stylesheet to fix this, but it's annoying to re-apply it on every (new) page request.

I added two screenshots to depict the problem I'm facing here every day and an image of the fixed layout using this small piece of user-CSS mentioned above:

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#commentform {
   width:500px!important;
}
#comment {
   width:500px !important;
}

I was playing with percentage to no avail, only pixels solved the problem which is fine for me. Since this "only" affects the width of the input fields, I believe it's an acceptable drawback if the remaining 99% of information and content become readable.

Have fun,
CirTap

[Predator]

Have checked this with FF 1.5.0.6 / Opera 9.01 / IE 6 / Konqueror on my Linuxbox and can't reproduce this.

Brad or Tonie can you confirm this, because i can't.

[Tonie]

Never seen this before, not on my Linux box with FireFox, and not on my Windows XP box with IE or FF.

[CirTap]

hmmm.. I wish you guys didnt's say that 
just for the records, I checked ye elde Netscape 7.1 who again has a different idea of how to render the page, and Netscape 8.1, more obviously joins his cousin FF.

now here comes the best part: I just checked the site in FF1.0 and 1.5 with my laptop (XP Home), super-blank new profile for both... the page looks nice! reload them here: messed up.
this is getting bizzare, especially since Opera 9(!) also behaves like the new Geckos  otherwise I'd say one of the FF extensions is to blame (which I'll try to verify later after seeing the effect on my laptop)

Any ideas, how it comes that 5 (7) different browsers from three vendors are affected, and ONLY on this particular site? 
I browse a lot and see a lot, and I (obviously) make websites myself. if there'd been a general problem with the CSS rendering of these apps I bet I had noticed before. The blogs have been "bothering" me with this since I found them, it's just today I though I tell somebody.

desperate...
CirTap