Posted by dorayme on 05/10/07 22:38

In article <5agkrnF2oulrmU1@mid.individual.net>,
Bergamot <bergamot@visi.com> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
> > In article <slrnf45gp8.fvj.spamspam@bowser.marioworld>,
> > Ben C <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote:
> >
> >> I keep hearing about strange 3px gaps in IE
> >
> > In IE if you float a box left to some static text content, IE6
> > will add 3px to - let me be nice to Microsoft for a moment - give
> > some grace to the text
>
> Grace has nothing to do with it. It's a bug.
> http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/threepxtest.html

I do not know your grounds for being so sure of this. It is
hardly a demo to point to the annoying consequences of a non
standard rendering browser. If the MS engineers deliberately put
in such a gap (eg, with floated pictures in mind, without
thinking through all the consequences for the html/css authoring
community) it may have had some motivation in providing a bit of
"god-given padding', grace. To show that grace had nothing to do
with it, you might need to provide more than the endless gnashing
of teeth and "workaround" website pages.

My remark was partly based on the principle of charity and partly
on a half forgotten memory of some MS engineer talking in some
forum about this issue.

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dorayme

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