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[Andrew Clover]

Lachlan Cannon <tiedefenderdelta6 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The top bar is majorly [a bit wrong. Ed.] in Opera 6.

Indeed, Netscape 4 does the same thing: in a table with fixed-size cells
and spare width left over, the slack is distributed to all cells - even
fixed size ones - according to the amount of content in them. Since the
middle cell contains only an &nbsp;, these browsers make that cell very
narrow. The traditional solution would be to add 'width="100%"' to the
name_rep cell, to make it eat all the slack. This is sort-of-wrong
according to spec (it means making a table of total width greater than
100%), but it works in all browsers and it's the only way to defeat the
Netscape Annoying Table Layout Algorithm.

Netscape 4 makes more annoying flubs with it, due to -

 - the main page layout also suffering from the layout problem (can be
   solved in the same way);
 - some background images being very small. Netscape 4 will often simply
   refuse to draw small background images. Increasing size to about 64x64
   or more usually fixes this odd problem;
 - borders set on form fields. This goes wrong in N4, so is best hidden
   from it using a separate stylesheet or unparsed rule (eg.
   'form#news input').

Did I mention that N4 is poo?

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Andrew Clover
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