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Subject: Konqueror rendering
From: Dave Seff <dave () solar1 ! net>
Date: 2003-01-16 2:19:32
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I have a site (Pay site) that does not render properly in konqueror.
Unfortunately they taylor their site as "IE Only" but about 93% of the
site works with the site. I included a sample of the html. At the right
of the text block should be a scrollbar because the text actually is too
big for the area.
Here is some (stripped down) html that shows the bug. This block of text
is clearly too big for the area specified, so there should be a
scrollbar on the right.
Mozilla and IE renders this correctly. Konqueror does not. If someone
can point me to the konq. code that handles this, I can try fixing it
myself.
Cheers.
-Dave
--
Dave Seff <dave@solar1.net>
--
Dave Seff <dave@solar1.net>
["test.html" (test.html)]
<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY alink="#660000" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" \
marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <DIV STYLE="overflow: auto; \
width: 700px; height: 300; border-left: 1px gray solid; border-bottom: 1px gray \
solid; padding:0px; margin: 0px"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" \
width="100%"> <tr bgcolor="#EEEFF0">
<td colspan="5" height="1">
<img src="/img/blank.gif" border="0" height="3" width="1">
</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#EEEFF0">
<td>
<img src="/img/blank.gif" border="0" height="1" width="15">
</td>
<td>
<font class="txt12BoldDkBlue">Hunting Season</font>
</td>
<td align="right" valign="top"> </td>
<td align="right" valign="top"> </td>
<td><img src="/img/blank.gif" border="0" width="2"></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#EEEFF0">
<td>
<img src="/img/blank.gif" border="0" width="2">
</td>
<td colspan="3">
<font class="txt12">I don't much like snow. One facet of living in New Mexico I liked \
was that if I wanted to see snow, I had to find it. Snow didn't find me because we \
were living in the southern part of this southwestern state. It's very much like \
hunting or fishing I imagine. The animals don't magically appear and make themselves \
easy prey when the season starts. Sportsmen have to find their targets. Once in their \
sites - or on their hooks - they have to ensure that the animals or fish they are \
about to kill or catch comply with federal or state regulations. I thought of this \
particular dynamic during the past few weeks as a parade of publicly traded insurance \
companies announced their quarterly earnings. <br/><br/>
Unlike animals that are hard to find during hunting season, publicly traded companies \
have to jump into the spotlight each quarter. They are used to seeing hunters from \
the SEC or other governmental agencies involved with ensuring the integrity of \
reported earnings. Now these companies must be prepared for another hunter: \
plaintiffs' lawyers. <br/><br/>
CIGNA is just the latest poster-child of a public company that has become prey for \
both the SEC and lawyers. About a week before Halloween, CIGNA couldn't report any \
treats to Wall Street. In fact, the company reported a sharp reduction in its third \
quarter earnings, forecast a reduction in its ability to meet its full-year earnings \
targets, and announced a major realignment that would, it stated, both cut costs and \
improve service. Finding the whole situation just one distasteful trick, investors \
drove down CIGNA's stock by 2.2% during regular trading hours on October 25, 2002, as \
the stock fell $1.46 to $63.60, and then after-hours, pummeled the stock down to \
$54.50. <br/><br/>
What brought CIGNA to this point? It seems a combination of factors that came \
together: a technology project gone awry, underestimating health care costs, and not \
adequately funding the company's pension liabilities. The technology project was \
named Transformation and it was supposed to enable CIGNA to provide superior service \
in the health insurance market. It didn't. Significant numbers of customers \
complained. So it "transformed" CIGNA into a company that thought it had to give \
price concessions to keep dissatisfied customers. A Wall Street Journal article \
reported that CIGNA also underestimated rising healthcare costs when it set its \
premiums for some large employers for 2002. Finally, as mentioned in that same WSJ \
article, CIGNA stated that it had to increase the company's minimum pension \
liability, which would cause the loss of a sizeable amount of shareholder equity this \
year. <br/><br/>
So the target was painted: unhappy customers, unrealistic premiums, under-funded \
pension liabilities, and as importantly, a significant negative impact on the bottom \
line. The SEC took aim by announcing it had begun an informal inquiry into the \
company. Wall Street analysts expressed little concern about this, noting that the \
SEC inquiry was routine when a company's stock falls that rapidly after negative \
announcements. Of potentially more importance was an announcement dated the same day \
as the earnings warnings, October 25, 2002, by (surprise, surprise) Milberg Weiss. \
The firm stated they had filed a class action lawsuit on that day on behalf of the \
purchasers of securities in CIGNA Corporation between May 2, 2001 and October 24, \
2002. (A copy of the complaint can be found at Milberg Weiss's web site at \
http://www.milberg.com/cases/cigna .) The core of the complaint are the alleged \
materially false and misleading statements regarding the company's growth, its \
expectations of operating earnings, its liabilities regarding its discontinued \
reinsurance operations, and its demand - or lack thereof - for its offerings, which, \
if the "truth" had been known, would have negatively affected its issuance of $250 \
million of 6 3/8% notes on October 16, 2002. Within days, the firms of Berger & \
Montague, P.C. and Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP announced that they too had filed class \
action lawsuits against CIGNA Corporation on much the same grounds. No one ever said \
that hunters couldn't sense a good killing field. <br/><br/>
The lessons here are obvious. Earnings will always put your company in the spotlight. \
But increasingly, company strategies and plans that don't work out will also throw \
your company in the spotlight, and plaintiffs' lawyers will tie the negative \
outcomes to any action your company has taken to raise additional capital or pursue \
mergers or acquisitions. Your company's every breath, so to speak, will alert hunters \
to your presence. What procedure is your company currently implementing to reduce the \
probability of being in some hunter's cross hairs? <br/><br/>
You'll see this editorial about every two weeks. Please send your comments - positive \
or negative - about this or any future editorials to Barry Rabkin at \
brabkin@advisen.com <br/><br/> Barry Rabkin, Editor<br/>
</font><br>
</td>
<td>
<img src="/img/blank.gif" border="0" width="2">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</DIV>
</td>
</tr>
<tr align="right" bgcolor="#CCCC99">
<td>
<img src="/img/blank.gif" border="0" width="2">
</td>
<td align="right"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<img src="/img/blank.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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