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Re: presentation example with WML


On 15-May-01 Axel Beckert wrote:
> Jan Holler wrote:
>> > <TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100">
> 
> s/"100"/"100%"/
> 
>> 
>> This gives different results with NN4 and IE5. NN4 does
>> respect the width-option but not the height-option while
>> IE respects both.
> 
> At least all the NN I use (3.x to 4.77, Solaris, Linux, BSD, Windows
> 95/NT4) do respect them, but maybe it was just my typo which screwed
> up some examplary tests.

No, the typo didn't screw it up. I just missed my own point. 
I don't use the height-option anymore since it is useless with NN4.
Have you ever tried to have a table within a table and both of
them are height="100%"? The enclosed table is never 100% with NN4.
The following code will produce different results with NN4 and
IE5:

<html>
<body>
<TABLE BORDER="1" WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%">
<tr>
<td valign="top">
 <TABLE BORDER="1" WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%"> 
 <tr>
 <td valign="bottom">Text at the bottom.</td>
 <td valign="top">Text at the top.<p><br><p></td>
 </tr>
 </TABLE>
</td>
</tr>
</TABLE>
</body>
</html>

(And please nobody should think that this kind of table
construction is not common.)

>> Btw: CSS are a really pain in the ass. There are too many
>> differences between the different browsers.
> 
> At the moment, yes, but there is a little bit of hope in me. :-) And
> for making old style HTML optionally look fine, it does a quite good
> job. :-)

Yes, but sometimes I really feel how a few of my hairs
turn grey while fiddling out where the problems hide. :)
Don't forget: a lot more than 60% use IE todays.

Cheers
 -jan

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