Re: [WWdevel] OL problem on MSIE

[John J. <jj...@as...>]

Arnold Pizer wrote:

> 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.

With float and zoom commented out, I see the basic peekaboo bug.

With float commented out, use of true OL with Davide's suggestions and 
zoom still in place I don't see the basic peekaboo, but the OL labels 
disappear again.

John

>>>> 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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