Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 09/28/05 01:51

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, rf wrote:

> position: absolute; left: 160 px; top: 100; height: 100%; width:2; ?
>
> Well, IE assumes that the OP really meant width: 2px.

You're aware, are you, that the CSS specification explicitly forbids
this behaviour, meaning that this is yet another point on which IE
disqualifies itself as a web browser?

> Mozilla does not.

Neither may any other web-compatible browser. Those mandatory
requirements in the specification aren't just for amusement: there's
an important motive behind them (MSIE 3.x eminently demonstrated the
dangers of disregarding them, but MS chose not to learn from that
experience, it seems).

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