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...
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)