Richard Grevers wrote:
I don't use MSIE for anything other than checking pages to see how many hacks I have to work in to make IE behave, but in all of my time reading HTML groups and forums where the standard advice is to use a fully- qualified DTD, I have never heard mention of such a bug. Are you sure that there isn't some other markup error in the Wikipedia pages which is combining to create the effect in IE?
The page I tested ([[Ozone]] a couple hours ago) validated in the w3 validator, which is usually a good sign. Of course it's possible that there is misuse of markup that validates, and works correctly in Mozilla, and works correctly in IE6 in quirks mode, but _ought_ to cause this type of selection. :)
Most likely there is a pecularity in our markup (possibly incorrect, possibly not), such that the combination of some particular feature of our page and IE's non-quirks rendering mode results in the strange selection behavior. Most likely, if a minimal case can be constructed, it can be worked around. I haven't had a chance to rip the page apart to find it yet.
I have not tried to validate the stylesheet, so that's another factor to examine. Of course, stylesheets don't have doctypes...
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