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MSIE5 better but still buggy (was: Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 18 Mar 2000 16:54:50 GMT
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Doing some testing with MSIE5 under Win98 under Virtual PC under MacOS9...
Replying to my message from last night...
In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
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> One of the bugs, for example, is that MSIE puts extra whitespace _past_ the
> border of a hyperlink image with a nonzero border. That is, it correctly
> draws the n-pixel border in <A HREF="..."><IMG BORDER=n ...></A> but then it
> also ridiculously adds _another_ n-pixels of border around that. :-/
Fixed in MSIE5. Yay!
> Another bug is the way the leading is handled between <UL></UL> and <P> in
> MSIE. (I can't remember the exact details, but NN got it right.)
Not sure about this yet.
> Antother (this one extremely braindead) bug is that MSIE sometimes likes to
> break lines of the form "foo&foo;foo" at the entity boundary. *WAY* wrong
> thing to do when the entity is ® or © -- or worse when it's a
> European letter.
Fixed in MSIE5. Yay!
But it looks like there's a new "oddity" ("it's a feature, not a bug!"):
MSIE5 likes to do word-breaks on ASCII hyphens. This is fine for things
like "fan-created", but it's pretty dumb for things like "e-mail" and "5-
minute" and:
Member Since: 19-
Nov-1999
Oh well, it's nowhere near as bad as what happened before with
<SMALL><SUP>®</SUP></SMALL>...
> Another totally braindead UI problem (maybe they've fixed this recently?)
> is that MSIE will stop loading a page if you click a link in it and the
> link's target is a different window -- i.e., something that happens very
> commonly on framed pages.
Fixed in MSIE5. Yay!
> Yet another totally braindead MSIE problem is multiple-select lists with the
> <SELECT> tag. If none of the <OPTION> items within a <SELECT> have the
> SELECTED attribute, MSIE is its infinite wisdom decides to auto-select the
> first item for you! Wonderful. So you have to add an empty foofoo item at
> the top if you're serving pages to an MSIE browser, if you don't want
> anything selected by default. (Perhaps MS has fixed this bug by now.)
Still broken in MSIE5! Bummer.
--Todd
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| (...) I called it "bug" because IMHO it is a User Interface bug. But yeah, more objectively, it is simply an "inability." Okie dokie, here ya go, here's a page with two forms... Type text in the boxes and hit Enter. If nothing happens when you hit (...) (27 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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