[thelist] [fwd] frame height across browsers

[Peter-Paul Koch]

>Why not go for the elegant work around and just have a browser detect where 
>if NS x then pixels =
>whatever?

Because you cannot know exactly how NN4 will respond in any particular 
browser. If you say a frame is 120 pixels wide, the actual width of the 
frame may be anything from 110 to 130, depending on the window size, the OS 
(probably) and the general mood of NN4.

ppk

> > No, the problem is that NN2-4 act very weirdly with frame dimensions. 
>When you set a frame width and height in pixels, Netscape first makes the  
>width/heigfht percentages and then pixels again.
> >
> > Bottom line is that you cannot know in advance exactly how large a frame 
>will be in Netscape 2-4, so a design that hinges on a particular frame 
>being  a particular size will fail spectacularly.


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