Posted by Neredbojias on 08/05/05 14:19

With neither quill nor qualm, Spartanicus quothed:

> Neredbojias <neredbojias@neredbojias.com> wrote:
>
> >According to this very newsgroup, IE sometimes has trouble with floats
>
> Every browser has float bugs, including the latest and greatest. There
> is a huge number of different float bugs across different browsers and
> browser versions. Unfortunately floats are abused all over the place by
> many in an attempt to circumvent IE's CSS shortcomings.
>
> The float bugs combined with the fundamental unsuitability of using
> floats for anything else than their intended purpose [1] is probably the
> biggest source of frustration amongst budding CSS authors.
>
> [1] Left or right aligning an element and have text flow around it.

Yes. Between my previous message and this one, I did a little fooling
around with floats and became one frustrated fuzz-stuffer. I agree with
your statement/conclusion quite heartily. (Ironically, in several
variations it actually seemed that IE executed floats more standards-
correct, thought not completely so, than did Mozilla.)

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Neredbojias
Contrary to popular belief, it is believable.

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