Date: 02/19/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: html

Update: looks like it's the "peekaboo bug".

In the process of massaging my site into XHTML 1.0 Strict W3C compliance, I started noticing weird problems in Internet Explorer. Yeah, yeah, I know, big surprise -- but these are screen-redraw problems, so I wondered if they were related to the fact that my only access to Windows is through VirtualPC on a Mac. I'd dismiss it as a corrupted install of VPC, but my site is the only one I have this problem with.

So, I'm here to ask for reports on how it displays on your non-VPC installs of Internet Explorer. Usually what happens is that the dark borders (on either side of the light-colored content area) display erratically. Either they show up at first, but disappear when you scroll the window, or they're not there at first, and then appear when you scroll, or a combination of the two.

Worse things also happen, but only rarely. Sometimes the light-colored background doesn't render, and the green shows through. Sometimes the background is there until you select some text, then the green shows through. Sometimes things get really wacky, and the content on the page disappears, but you can still click the (invisible) links if you know where they are. - This part's resolved.

The site:
http://www.tumuski.com/

Thanks for your feedback.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/299370.html