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Re: 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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Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:20:18 GMT
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"Asher Kobin" <asherk@pobox.com> wrote in message
news:FrqHo3.2KJ@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > 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:
> > > [...]
> > > 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.
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> Why do you consider this difference in behavior between the two browsers • to
> be "broken" in IE5? Obviously, I can make the reverse argument and say it
> is "broken" in Nav. Neither browser is going to change this behaviour, it
> will break compatibiliy.
How come I can't get IE5 to reproduce this on my machine?
Here is the page I was using to test it. For me, it doesn't seem to select
any
of the items be default.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~koesel/FormTest.htm
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