Actually he won't see a bug free site at all. Correcting the doctype and other issues makes no difference.
The bug does not occur in Internet Explorer 6. Something like this has been reported previously but the only references I can find are not directly applicable to this situation. http://foorider.blogspot.com/2007/09/css-ie7-float-italic-background.html http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/italicbug-ie.html Steve _____ From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Essential eBiz Solutions Sent: 04 June 2009 02:57 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] The weirdest IE bug I've ever encountered. Joe is right, you got alot of tags unclosed and you're switch from HTML to XHTML style tags. Pick one, and use the validator! You'll see a pretty much bug free site in no time. _____ From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Taylor Sent: 04 June 2009 02:38 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] The weirdest IE bug I've ever encountered. I took a look at your source code - there are a whole bunch of issues beginning with oddities in your HTML - things like: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3c.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd"; <http://www.w3c.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd> > <HTML lang=en xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml> > Your saying the DocType is HTML 4.01 Transitional, but then you're linking to the XHTML namespace - that's probably confusing IE right from the get go. Using Transitional DocTypes also pisses IE off. <ul > Weird spacees in your tags? That's begging for IE weirdness. Try starting with perfect HTML that's of the Strict DocType whether it's HTML or XHTML. Joseph R. B. Taylor Designer / Developer -------------------------------------- Sites by Joe, LLC "Clean, Simple and Elegant Web Design" Phone: (609) 335-3076 Web: http://sitesbyjoe.com Email: j...@sitesbyjoe.com On 6/3/09 9:14 PM, Breton Slivka wrote: I have a stripped down example of it here. The bug only occurs in IE 7, and possibly ie6, and it occurs in IE8 running in compatibility mode. I cannot be sure whether it happens in IE8 in IE8 mode or not. (MS have made the compatibility mode interface so bloody complex I can't figure out whether I'm in it or not at any given time). The example is here: http://zenpsycho.com/iebug.htm On that page, you will see an italic letter v on the left hand side of the screen, and a "view cart" link on the right hand side which is NOT clickable, but which should be clickable. The ingredients of this bug appear to be: * a left floated element followed by * an italic styled element nested directly inside a p tag, which are both preceded by * a "menu" with links that are floated to the right Combine these things together, and the right hand side of the screen becomes unclickable. (you can have a huge column of links on the right hand side, and they're all useless). What really bothers me about this one, is that the spell is mysteriously broken (the bug goes away) if you change this: <P><span>v </span></P> to this: <P><span>v </span> </P> Just what on earth is going on here? ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ******************************************************************* No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.52/2152 - Release Date: 06/03/09 05:53:00 ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
