Slightly OT: MSIE bugs and frustrations

[Jeffrey Silverman]

Hi, all. I am reposting something that I'm afearin' got nested in an
unread thread.

Allright, I'll describe the source of today's frustration.

On MSIE 6.0.2800.1106 on Windows 2000, I am noticing a problem with
background images not showing up until a screen refresh. I'm not talking
about clicking the "Reload" button either -- I am talking about resizing,
minimizing, or maximizing the window to get the window to be redrawn.
*OR*, taking another open window and "dragging" it over top of the MSIE
window to redraw the portions of the screen under the window being dragged.

I have a background image in a DIV but the background does not show up
until the screen is re-drawn in one of the aforementioned ways.

Has anyone else seen this bug? Anyone know how to fix it?

Sample URL:
<http://initiatives.jhu.edu/nano?csson=1>

Screenshots of problem (in case you are lucky/smart and don't use Windows
or MSIE 6):
<http://engineering.jhu.edu/~jeff/msiebug.php>

Please note that I am running MSIE 6 on Wine on Linux. This does not
matter! I have confirmed that this problem exists exactly like I am
describing it on two different Windows 2000 machines running the same
version of MSIE. I only used the Wine screenshots because it was easier
for me to get the screenshots. The results are the same!

Addendum:

I discovered the source of the bug. a "clear: left" declaration in the
CSS. You can see the CSS source and where I commented out to fix the
problem here:

<http://initiatives.jhu.edu/include/css/website-dev.css>
Lines 273-276

I am going to leave it uncommented so that the problem occurs so that
maybe someone will recognize this problem and point me to a bug
description or something like that.

 

[brucie]

In alt.html Jeffrey Silverman said:

<http://initiatives.jhu.edu/nano?csson=1>

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/...s.jhu.edu/nano?csson=1&warning=1&profile=css2

 

[brucie]

In alt.html Jeffrey Silverman said:

<http://initiatives.jhu.edu/nano?csson=1>

http://moreshit.usenetshit.info/man-of-silver/

 

[Jeffrey Silverman]

In alt.html Jeffrey Silverman said:


http://moreshit.usenetshit.info/man-of-silver/

Thanks. It looks good, but for one problem. Maybe it's unsolvable.

In MSIE 6, when you resize the window below a certain threshhold, the list
of people on the right jumps down off the page. The top of this list now
lines up with the bottom of the left-hand navigation column.

See what I mean:
<http://engineering.jhu.edu/~jeff/nano-brucie.html>

 

[brucie]

In alt.html Jeffrey Silverman said:

Thanks. It looks good,
YAY!

but for one problem.

Maybe it's unsolvable.

easily solved - don't use IE

In MSIE 6, when you resize the window below a certain threshhold, the list
of people on the right jumps down off the page.

its the padding used on the #main-content h2 span for the heading above
the people. i've dumped the <span> and applied the style to the <h2>
using % rather than ems to make it more tolerant.

it still happens but not until the content area gets down to about the
same width as the menu which while possible for some people to have
weirdo windows like that its an unlikely situation.

<http://engineering.jhu.edu/~jeff/nano-brucie.html>

thats not rendered the way my IE was going it. the nan0@JHU moved down
to the bottom but the style lines for it remained up the top where they
were supposed to be. IE sucks.