[thelist] ie and gecko break the page, opera 8 didn't

[dwain at alforddesigngroup.com]

i was working on a page last night helping someone on another list when 
i noticed a strange phenomenon.  i was zooming text in ie, moz, ff, 
nn7.2, nn8Beta and opera 8.

i had a negative margin set for a div to position it.  when i zoomed the 
text, the negative div broke the design (crawling up the page) in all of 
the browsers except opera 8.  the page stayed together and resized in 
relation to all of the elements.  margins and text increased 
proportionately instead of disproportionately like in the other browsers.

don't get me wrong, i'm a mozilla fan, but this caught me by surprise. i 
would love for the mozilla developers to develop mozilla and firefox to 
do the same thing.  maybe bill might do it in ie, uh, 9?

i think that this development is a positive step for cross-browser and 
cross-platform standards.  it would be wonderful if we could eliminate 
hacks in the future by developing products that behaved the same.  sure 
this would mean that a "trade secret" becomes "public domain", but look 
at the benefit for the web community and for web designers; and for 
standards that we are all striving to introduce and implement.

dwain
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