On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 01:44:07 -0700, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com gave utterance to the following:
I've gone ahead and made the switch. We've got our doctype & DTD back, and with non-absolutely-positioned content, IE's selection bug seems to go away.
So hopefully it won't turn out that there was a good reason for the absolute positioning that I've just broken. ;)
What seems to be happening is that because there is no content in the general flow of the page, the body ends right at the top.
ARRRRGHHHH! That's no excuse not to select text that it's willing to show, though... :)
Layouts where every element is positioned seldom work smoothly, and I'm sure this can be done more tidily by other means.
Yeah, well they *should* work dammit! :)
You want to see the fun and games once you introduce draggable, resizable floating elements via DOM! In some browsers dragging also selects the text beneath the mouse.