[thelist] N6 and Percents

Jay Fitzgerald jayfitz at bayou.com
Thu Dec 7 10:26:03 CST 2000


Why don't we all just start using something of this sort?

http://www.brainjar.com/warning.html



Adam Slesinger wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> N6 has opened my eyes to a lot of poor coding that I have done in the past.
> Where IE would just assume it knew what you meant when you forgot a closing
> tag, Netscape just won't show the table cell.  I hated this at first, now I
> appreciate it.
>
> I found that N6 for some reason does not like percentages when it comes to
> image and table properties.  Has anybody else noticed this?  In N4.x and IE
> 4.x and 5.x, I used code like <table width="100%" height="100%"> and it
> would work as expected.  N6 seems to ignore this coding and not expand the
> table to the far edges of the screen. Also, when I use code like <td
> width="100%">, it just doesn't show the table cell at all until I remove the
> percentage, or at least replace it with a fixed pixel amount!  Hmmmm, is
> this poor coding, or a bug with N6.  I'm curious because N4.x doesn't do the
> same thing.
>
> Tons of comments and ideas welcome! =]
>
> adam aka bread_man
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