[thelist] Netscape 6 Liquid Table Bug

[Elly]

The technique of making liquid tables work for NN4 shows a problem in 
NN6 in certain conditions.

In Netscape 6 (tested only on a Mac) with certain table attributes 
and with the browser window at certain widths you can see a one pixel 
vertical line of the page background color, in between a middle 
liquid width cell and end cell.

Please see this demo page of the problem.
http://www.echozone.com/bug.html

Conditions:
* a cell width of 100%
* table centered on the page
* table tag has percentage width attribute set at less than 100%
* bug visible only when the browser window is at certain widths!

I would assume this is a bug in Netscape 6, but it's not apparent 
*why* it's showing this weird behavior, and only under this 
combination of conditions. This is valid HTML 4 Transitional code. I 
have not been able to come up with a workaround. The problem in NN4 
is too severe to forsake the 100% width attribute. I'm curious if 
others have come up against this, having never heard this discussed.
-- 
Elly

http://www.echozone.com/
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