On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 01:44:07 -0700, Brion Vibber <brion(a)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.
--
Richard Grevers
Women are like watches: The finer the movement the better the time