Re: wine and IE
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> even with comlpiant browsers, valid html and valid css you can still get
> display difference between browsers!
>
> take the following (abrevieted) example
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <style>
> #big {width : 100px; height :100px; background-color : red;}
> #small {width : 50px; height: 50px; background-color : blue;}
> </style>
> </head>
> <body>
> <div id="small">
> a small div containing
> <div id="big">
> a big div
> </div>
> </div>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> now there is nothing invalid about either the CSS or the HTML above
>
> But it is clearly bad coding - the big div can't fit inside the small
> one - and the browser has to either increase the size of the small div,
> decrease the big one, break the containment ...
This is clearly not logical, so why does the browser render it at all or tries
to guess what the designer really meant? That makes no sense to me. Why not
just saying bug in line 11, or something?
Robert
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