[thelist] Netscape and CSS

[Peter-Paul Koch]

>Maybe the automatic refresh is a Mac/Win32 difference. I just checked my 
>copy of Netscape Communicator 4.76 on Win32, and it clearly refreshes the 
>browser any time I resize the window (either by dragging the window border 
>or by maximizing or restoring the window).

Oh yes, this happens but the trick is that it isn't a reload but more like a 
re-interpretation of the already visible content. Try document.writing a 
self.screen.clientWidth in the page, when you resize the window and do 
nothing else the value is still the same after the apparent reload, even 
though it should have changed. Only when you reload the page is the 
clientWidth again evaluated.

This even happens
>on a directory listing where I know there is no scripting forcing a 
>refresh. What a kludge. The fact that Netscape never purged this problem 
>from 4.x, in my mind, suggests how painfully twisted the source code must 
>have been.

Yep. Microsoft on the other hand has done it right from the beginning: 
content is always resizable, it's interpreted much more fluidly. When you 
don't give WIDTH and HEIGHT for your images, IE solves it much better than 
NN, this is the same difference.

ppk
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