Re: [WWdevel] OL problem on MSIE

[Arnold P. <ap...@ma...>]

At 04:02 PM 2/5/2005, Davide P.Cervone wrote:

Hi Mike, following  Davide's suggestion, commented out the zoom and float 
statements in ur.css (and uploaded the changes to the CVS).  This 
definitely fixed the OL bug with MSIE.

Also I don't see the peek-a-boo bug in prob 1 of set 0 (where John said to 
look) but I didn't see it there before with zoom commented out.  Maybe 
someone who sees the peek-a-boo bug on a regular basis can test this.

Arnie



>>>Is this in comparison to other browsers, or is the server in generating 
>>>the page?
>>This is in comparison to other browsers.  When I used the Library Browser 
>>to check the OL bug on the Mac IE
>>it took many tens of seconds for the full table to come up ** using 
>>jsMath mode**.
>
>This is jsMath's fault.  The Mac version of MSIE just barely runs jsMath 
>as it is, and there are some hacks in there to make it work at all.  One 
>of them is that if you update the page too fast, MSIE crashes, so I had to 
>slow it down.  The screen flashes because the pauses let the browser get 
>around to redrawing the screen in between the updates.
>
>Since MicroSoft is no longer supporting MSIE on the Mac, I see no reason 
>to work too hard to support it.  Safari is superior to MSIE on the Mac, 
>anyway.  MSIE is pretty crippled on the Mac.  I was amazed I could get 
>jsMath to run on it at all.
>
>Davide
>
>
>
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