IE is broken, or I am?

[David Glover]

This page:
http://mwongozi.net/things/Web/test.html

Is supposed to look like this: (At least, I think it is.)
http://davidglover.org/lj/correct.png

Mozilla and Safari for Mac do indeed display it that way. However, IE
for Windows displays it like this:
http://davidglover.org/lj/windows-ie.png
It seems to be ignoring the right= and bottom= attributes, the boxes do
not extend to the right or bottom.

IE for Mac also seems to get it wrong:
http://davidglover.org/lj/mac-ie.png
The boxes extend to far to the right, off the page, but again they
don't extend to the bottom.

Have I made a mistake in my code, or is this a bug in IE? How do I
fix, or work around it?

[Matthias Gutfeldt]

David Glover schrieb:

This page:
http://mwongozi.net/things/Web/test.html

Have I made a mistake in my code, or is this a bug in IE? How do I
fix, or work around it?

It's probably the XML prolog bug in IE6 (and some other confused
browsers), which tricks IE6 into quirks mode. If you remove the prolog
and the problem is corrected, then it's because IE is broken.
Matthias

[David Glover]

In article <3F***************@gmx.net>, Matthias Gutfeldt
<sa************@gmx.net> wrote:

It's probably the XML prolog bug in IE6 (and some other confused
browsers), which tricks IE6 into quirks mode. If you remove the prolog
and the problem is corrected, then it's because IE is broken.

Unfortunately this does not seem to be the case. I have removed the
HTML prolog in this file:
http://mwongozi.net/things/Web/test2.html

And it does not seem to make any difference at all.

[Matthias Gutfeldt]

David Glover schrieb:

In article <3F***************@gmx.net>, Matthias Gutfeldt
<sa************@gmx.net> wrote:

It's probably the XML prolog bug in IE6 (and some other confused
browsers), which tricks IE6 into quirks mode. If you remove the prolog
and the problem is corrected, then it's because IE is broken.

Unfortunately this does not seem to be the case. I have removed the
HTML prolog in this file:
http://mwongozi.net/things/Web/test2.html

And it does not seem to make any difference at all.

OK, it was worth a shot :-).
Matthias