13 Sep 2006
Does Everybody Who Comments Here Use a Mozilla based Browser?

Or Opera? Because there was a major flaw in the writeback section, stemming from my use of the <pre> tag, with every other browser on the planet.

It seems as though there's a documented "anomaly" in some browsers, including IE 5+ for Windows, Konqueror for Linux/KDE and Safari for the Mac (which is based on Konqueror code) that forces the width of the entire page to match the longest single line enclosed in the preformatting tag. Moronic doesn't begin to describe that little bit of nonsense - the tag has a "width" attribute, which these browsers cheerfully ignore.

It's fixed now - I went with a textarea [ugly!] and got rid of the offending, yet standard HTML <pre> tag altogether. Should be functionally identical, except for the scroll bars, of course, but ... well, let me know if you see any weirdness, will ya?

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