That is exactly what I would expect and get with 6.0.0. With 6.1.0 there is just a long white bar in the upper corner of the browser window. The only thing I changed with the project was the vaadin-6.0.0.jar into vaadin-6.1.0.jar available from the download page. Switching between the jars brings back the correct behavior for 6.0.0 and keeps incorrect one for 6.1.0.
I wonder what could be causing this. Other libraries are always possible. Something outside the actual code anyway.
I decided to RTFM and noticed that GWT was upgraded to 1.7.0 with the Vaadin update. I hope this post at least saves some trouble from others who think they’re too busy to read release notes :*)