Problem with Optica website

[unknownone]

Dear all,
since few months, I'm having text visualization issues on the Optica websites, an example here https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-31-23-39222&id=541404 . basically the text that should appear in the central white area is reflown on the right side. Here two screenshots




I'm running Win 10 Palemoon 32.5.0 64 bit.

Is this something that can be fixed?
Thank you

Here is the error console output:

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Timestamp: 10/11/2023 15:13:40
Warning: This site appears to use a scroll-linked positioning effect. This may not work well with asynchronous panning; see https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Performance/ScrollLinkedEffects for further details and to join the discussion on related tools and features!
Source File: https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-31-23-39222&id=541404
Line: 0

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Timestamp: 10/11/2023 15:13:41
Warning: Synchronous XMLHttpRequest on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to the end user’s experience. For more help http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/
Source File: https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.7.1.js
Line: 9828

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Timestamp: 10/11/2023 15:13:42
Error: downloadable font: download failed (font-family: "MathJax_Blank" style:normal weight:normal stretch:normal src index:0): bad URI or cross-site access not allowed source: about:blank
Source File: https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-31-23-39222&id=541404
Line: 24, Column: 12
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@font-face {   font-family: "MathJax_Blank";   src: url("about:blank"); }

[Moonchild]

The layout's a mess. they're mixing flex, float, table-flex, etc all in a single layout.
The most problematic thing seems to be that they have a float: on the top portion (with navigation) that will mess up the layout context.

They really need to redo the design there, and just pick one way to lay out their design, be it grid, flex, floats or a bog-standard table, and not just toss everything and the kitchen sink in and pray it works.

[vannilla]

Off-topic:
From experience (*cough*) I noticed that these messy layouts are usually caused by not understanding layout at all while trying to set up "cool" effects, so I don't have much hope in seeing it rewritten or redesigned.