IE Quirk

One pixel space

[IanKelley]

I think this may be an obscure IE bug... Either that or I'm missing something obvious...

IE 5.x is inserting a one pixel space between two table rows on this page:
getpaidtobeonline.net/index.html

The strange thing is that this only happens the first time the page is loaded... After it's been cached it displays fine. Click refresh to see what I mean.

To make it even more fun... I've tried the page on other systems and it doesn't happen for everyone... More often than not it doesn't happen at all.

I'm getting it in IE 5.5 in Win2k... I don't remember for sure but I think it happened in previous versions of IE/Windows as well.

Anyway, I'm hoping that some of you will go and see if you can reproduce the error. If so, any ideas why it's happening?

Oh, and don't give me any sh*t about the code... It's a hobby site and most of it was written over a year ago :-)

[tedster]

Not getting any extra pixel width -- IE 6 on Windows 98.

This reminds me of some strange problems I've been getting on Netscape Macintosh. The problems only show up sporadically, and then only on first load, never from the cache.

Ain't technology wonderful?

(edited by: tedster at 5:58 pm (gmt) on Dec. 20, 2001)

[joshie76]

Fine for me too though I've definitely been witness to the same behaviour before. Completely sporadic rendering bug is my best guess...

>> Ain't technology wonderful?

Isn't it odd that working in technology and the digital world it often seems so, well, organic and biological.

Josh

[tedster]

Speaking of cache quirks, I just ran into a strange one on NN4.7 Windows. I had a page in the browser window, then I updated it on the server and reloaded the browser. The new page was rendered perfectly -- all well and good.

Then I re-sized the window and the OLD content displayed. My oh my, what did they put into that browser code!

[IanKelley]

Thanks for taking a look all... I was hoping that no one else would be able to reproduce it... Now I can forget about it. :-)

Speaking of browser quirks... has anyone noticed that, ever since AOL, Netscape always errs towards being a pain in the ass for developers?

If I was IE I couldn't ask for better competition :-)

[prez]

I too have seen this problem on a few sites I have built, yet it does not appear for all users (just on my machines :-P).

I believe it may have something to do with images being used in cells within a 100% table?

Please LMK if anyone solves this.

[Xoc]

prez-Welcome to WebmasterWorld.

Well, IE has Opera to contend with.