See my posts over the last day or so. I'm sure that Georg will back me on this one. IE6 can do strange things with images and there's no reason to suppose that it can't mis-render backgrounds for the same reason.
If it has to calculate the width and height of a rendered area, and there is any form of network congestion, then IE6 will 'timeout', just give up calculating, and render at whatever size its calculations got to when it 'gave up'! This could easily be a width and height of zero, which would have the effect of 'no display' for the element. This accounts for why I was obtaining perfect results with IE6 using local files, but when online, it would intermittently mis-render, even though the file paths were perfect, due to a slightly slow connection. The solution to my problem was relatively straightforward as I am using jpegs and I now specifically declare image sizes instead of leaving it to IE6 to calculate them. My client has reported no further problems. That's a solution for me, but may not be suitable for others, apart from triggering a train of thought. :-) You may well be correct and it is a 'has layout' issue. The whole point of my reply is to prove that IE6 CAN part render, distort, or both, but not because it missed the CSS! Regards, Alan. www.theatreorgans.co.uk www.virtualtheatreorgans.com Admin: ConnArtistes, UKShopsmiths, 2nd Touch & A-P groups Shopsmith 520 + bits Flatulus Antiquitus ----- Original Message ----- From: david To: css-d Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:19 AM Subject: Re: [css-d] Could browsers miss CSS declarations? A thought crossed my mind. Given IE6's dependence on the HasLayout bug, would it be possible for it to not render things correctly until something triggers hasLayout and makes IE render the area in dispute correctly? -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] authenticity, honesty, community ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
