<<Does anyone actually use Opera?  I've tried it in the past, but found that
it had too many problems with too many sits (not only ones I built).>>

Compared to IE  -- no. Compared to anything else -- yes. 


<<I'm open to suggestions about how I can fix the problem you saw in Opera,
without breaking the site for others or adding tons of javascript.  The site
used to make extensive use of tables (and at one stage even frames), which I
am trying to steer clear of.
-- 
Bert Doorn, Better Web Design
www.betterwebdesign.com.au
Fast-loading, user-friendly websites>>

I believe your Opera problem results from the use of the height attribute.
Your "Main" div, set to overflow, actually runs passed the 100% height of
the viewport and in Opera7.11 that means the left and right floats end, so
the content flows the full width of the viewport. Changing your design to an
equal length 3 column design would solve the problem. For an example see: 

http://www.positioniseverything.net/thr.col.stretch.html


Also you have the ironic situation of having xhtml1.1 which requires an xml
prolog but since your page is served as text/html the prolog cause IE to pop
into quirks modes rather niftily undermining the strictness of xhtml1.1. 

drew


 
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