The won­der­ful thing about IE/Win is you always know where you stand. Its foibles are com­pre­hen­si­bly doc­u­mented, and fixes for many issues are avail­able to those who seek them. Fire­fox 1.0.x Mac, how­ever, is any­thing but thor­oughly doc­u­mented. My lat­est gripe? Floats, of all things. You’d think we’d have them sorted and worked out prop­erly by now, but appar­ently not. Opera, IE, Safari and Fire­fox Win (and Fire­fox Mac/1.5.x) all behave per­fectly, but Fire­fox Mac decides it’s not inter­ested. Unless, of course, I mod­ify the prop­er­ties using the DOM and then set back to what­ever it had been… in which case it dis­plays as expected. Clearly, it’s a ren­der bug rather than an out­right mis­in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the specs, but annoy­ing nonethe­less. Not in the least because there is very lit­tle infor­ma­tion about it avail­able. Grr.

Tags: DOM, Mac