Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/24/07 17:34

dorayme wrote:
> In article <1fd82$471e598a$40cba7ba$16356@NAXS.COM>,
> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:
>
>> dorayme wrote:

>>> This gets a blue 120px wide border from top to bottom
>>> irrespective of browser window size in Mac Safari, Camino, iCab,
>>> Opera, Firefox Not too surprisingly, nothing appears in the old
>>> and not much used MacIE. I have not tested in Windows IE
>> MSIE 7 = "Thumbs Up!"
>> MSIE 6.01 = "Thumbs Down!" blue 120px wide but only 15px high (1 line?)
>> MSIE 5.5 = "Thumbs Up!"
>> MSIE 5.01 = "Thumbs Up!"
>> MSIE 4.01 = "Wiggles had palm down" blue 120px wide but does not quite
>> make it to the bottom. Always about 25px shy!
>>
>> Don't ya just love IE!
>
> I notice now that when I add to my cited url, body {width:
> 100%;}, I get the phenomena of your "MSIE 4.01 = "Wiggles had
Of course *after* I post is see this should be *hand* ------^^^

> palm down" blue 120px wide but does not quite make it to the
> bottom. Always about 25px shy!" At least it *mostly* then appears
> in MacIE!
>

What I found wild is when it failed in IE6 you would *expect* it would
fail in all other previous versions... Makes web design with IE fun so
if you ever considered IE conditional comments your salvation the
nightmare will hit you that you may have to fork for every incarnation
of this turkey!

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Take care,

Jonathan
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