[webkit-help] New platform layout/rendering problem

Wed Oct 7 16:08:10 PDT 2009

Hi,

I am porting WebKit to a new platform. I have done a lot of the work,
but I am having trouble getting the layout/rendering to work correctly.

Here is the HTML I am loading to test with:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title Text</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Hello world!</h1>
    <p>Paragraph 1</p>
    <p>Paragraph 2</p>
	<br>
    <p><a href="hello.html">Link</a></p>
    <ul>
      <li>item 1</li>
      <li>item 2</li>
      <li>item 3</li>
    </ul>
    <div style="border:5px solid black; padding:20px; width:300px">
      Here is a line of text.
	  <span style="position:relative;top:-10px; background-color:
#eeeeee">This part is shifted<br> up a bit,</span>
	  but the rest of the line is in its original position.
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

And attached is a screen capture of the resulting rendered output. As
you can see, all layout and style information seems to be getting
stripped out or ignored, with the exception of the <br> tag.

I have tried stepping through the parsing, layout, and rendering code to
find what is going wrong, but there is a lot going on in the code and I
am not really sure what I am looking for. Does anyone have any ideas
about what the problem might be, which part of the code is most likely
to be broken, or where I can dig around more to see what is not working?
I'm assuming I made some basic mistake in one of my platform
implementation routines or configuration options, but I just don't know
which one it could be. Any information would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Benbuck Nason
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