[thelist] IE6 is broken

[Diane Soini]

Well, I've spent many days on this and have finally realized that it 
just ain't gonna work. It appears that IE6 has a bug that I haven't 
seen anything written about yet. Here's what happens:

1. My stylesheet uses keywords (font-size:small), but if the units are 
in pixels, I can reproduce the problem by going into the tools -> 
accessibility and check the box to ignore font-sizes. The html code, by 
the way, is very poorly written, with such attrocities as <span> tags 
inside of <tr> that are left open, and <input type="hidden"> inside of 
<tr>. No control over any of that nonsense. Perhaps this contributes to 
this bug because I can't reproduce it in a simple test page.
2. Set browser text size to anything other than medium. In this 
example, the choice was "smaller."
3. Click on a link that opens a popup window.
4. Text on the main page behind the popup window repaints to the medium 
size (which is quite large.) <h1> tags are especially huge.
5. Move the popup window around and it will repaint any text it 
obscures to the medium size.
6. Hover over any link and watch the link text repaint to the medium 
size.
7. Close the popup window and see that the browser has re-set the text 
in the main browser window back to medium in the View -> Text Size menu.

Conclusion: Accessibility is broken for IE6. If my customers want to 
increase or decrease their font-sizes they'll have to use a different 
browser.

That's as good as I can do on this one. Every hack in the book did 
absolutely nothing to combat this weirdness.