gmiller - 4:28 am on Aug 11, 2001 (gmt 0)

knighty: actually, the irony is that the crashing you reported on one of my sites a while back on NN4 was caused by tables inside divs :)

They seem to have fixed the crashing in later 4.x builds (in fact, I don't recall ever seeing a crash in 4.74 or higher), but it still misrenders in cases that used to crash. I suspect some state becomes invalid on complex pages and they worked around it by checking for validity and ignoring the style data if it's screwed. That sort of quick-fix workaround tends to appear a lot in software development when the real problem can't be identified and solved before a release deadline or when the developer doesn't want to devote significant resources to maintenance (which was the situation here).