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List:       squirrelmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Vedr. Re: [SM-DEVEL] SM 1.4.6 CVS + Javascript error?
From:       Paul Lesneiwski <paul () squirrelmail ! org>
Date:       2006-01-26 9:50:17
Message-ID: 58191e420601260150p20056e3x51a43cd27dfc769 () mail ! gmail ! com
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> > avoid stupid IE6 bug with frames and scrollbars
> > 
> > 
> > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/squirrelmail/squirrelmail/functions
> > /page_header.php?r1=1.137&r2=1.138
> > 
> > 
> > Marc.
> > 
> 
> More info about which bug we are talking about:
> 
> From http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/ie6pita.html
> 
> --------------
> Pages in framesets are laid out assuming there is no vertical scrollbar.
> When the page is long enough for there to be a vertical scrollbar, the
> pages are laid out behind the scrollbar. So that you can see the whole
> page, a horizontal scrollbar is also shown - unsightly and usually
> unwanted.
> 
> This bug can be removed using a complicated CSS technique, using only one
> line of CSS. The way it works is to firstly use a CSS parsing bug in IE <
> 6 to prevent them seeing the rest of the CSS:
> voice-family: "\"}\"";
> The first \ escapes the quotes but IE versions less than 6 will view it as
> end of quotes. Therefore, they read the } as end of style declaration. The
> following \"" will be ignored. Browsers that do not suffer from the
> parsing bug (Gecko, Konqueror, etc.) will have their voice reset to normal
> in the next declaration.
> The proprietary expression( ) is only understood by IE so only IE will
> adjust its width to remove the frameset problem.
> 
> <style style="text/css"><!--
> body { voice-family: "\"}\""; voice-family: inherit; width:
> expression(document.documentElement.clientWidth - 20); }
> --></style>
> 
> Keep this CSS separate from other CSS stylesheets in your document, and
> make sure it is the last stylesheet in your document.
> 
> I have read reports that <td> tags align center not left as usual, but I
> cannnot replicate this. It may be due to a <doctype ...> declaration that
> I did not test.
> 
> -------------
> 
> In other words, i think the code is there for a reason and it probably is
> a mistake to remove it because it is not compliant css.

OK, I'll buy that (although I hope this FF thing doesn't become an
issue)... .but I'd advocate for some notation in the code as to why
that is there.


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