<table height="100%"

[Tako Schotanus]

So you stopped using Mozilla because they refused to change the parser
while in fact it was you who refused to remove some spaces where they
didn't belong? Seems like the most logical thing to do, yes ;-)

On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 23:18, Luke Chatburn wrote:
> Just a thought, on a related note.
> 
> I found what I consider to be a bug in Mozilla a while ago. If you define a
> metric with a space between the numeric portion and the units, it breaks. I
> was using layers and had positions of, for example:
> 
> left: 109 px;
> 
> Instead of:
> 
> left: 109px;
> 
> Which is should have been, according to the W3C spec. The result in Mozilla
> was that all my layers congregated in a big lump in the corner of the page
> and I couldn't figure out why they wouldn't move. I reported it as a bug,
> they decided that the W3C spec mentioned nothing about a space and they
> couldn't be bothered to change the parser, so I should be more careful next
> time. I stopped using Mozilla at that point.
> 
> In short, I'm a very happy user of Konqy, every day at work and home, and
> being anal about W3C compliance can have some nasty side-effects that make
> the experience difficult for designers. The argument "Should we really
> support broken code just because IE does?" is a fair one, but often the
> world doesn't care whether an extra space is in the spec or not...
> 
> It has to be said, though, that so far, Konqy really has hit a happy medium
> :)
> 
> -Luke
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter B Van Campen" <peterb924 at ameritech.net>
> To: <kde at mail.kde.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 9:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [kde] <table height="100%"
> 
> 
> > On Thursday 08 May 2003 01:18 pm, gabriel wrote:
> > > On May 8, 2003 01:57 pm, R.F. Pels wrote:
> > > > Derek Fountain wrote:
> > > > >> Why is table height="100%" not working in Konqueror?
> > > > >
> > > > > Because there's no such attribute. :op
> > > >
> > > > Hmm.
> > >
> > > whether or not it's a standard attribute, it's becoming a widely used
> one.
> > > much like a bunch of micros~1's ie's use of javascript and dhtml
> (sadly).
> > > shouldn't this sort of thing be included in konqueror's renderer?  if
> not,
> > > we're setting ourselves up to have a browser that only works with sites
> > > coded by responsible coders...  and as ideal as that would be, there's
> more
> > > not-so-responsible coders out there.
> >
> > OK, but where are you going to draw the line? :o)
> >
> > PeterB
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Tako Schotanus <quintesse at palacio-cristal.com>
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