CSS alignment - LCD vs. CRT ??

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aaronhall... here's a really good ie hack for a min-width. I use it all the time... it works great... you might think about implementing it on evilwalrus.
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/boxes/minwidth.html
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Awesome, ninja - thanks. I hadn't gotten around to fixing it and hadn't really looked at any hacks yet - I'll definitely use this. Thanks again
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:wink:
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That's the crazy part about this. It doesn't depend on which browser is used! On a computer that is experiencing this oddity, all browsers behave the same! I don't think it's related to window resizing (although I'm not 100% sure). I've rewritten the code (would you believe it, I had some b-u-g-s in it!) and now I'm down to just one person who continues to have the problem (my cousin) plus one other person who has a much greater problem, which I'll describe here, just in case anyone has seen this:

OK, this sounds immeditely like a driver issue, and it probably is, but we've updated the monitor driver and it didn't change it. An elderly friend of mine bought a new Dell computer early this year; he bought a Dell LCD monitor with it. At first glance, everything looks great. Good color and contrast, on the desktop, in applications, and when viewing web pages with either IE 6.0 or Firefox 1.5 ... except that web page background colors are always white ... in both browsers! No matter which browser he uses, he never can display a page background color! But everything else is displayed completely normal! If it was just one browser, I could understand it. If other windows or the desktop showed any abnormalities, I could understand it. But it's only when either browser displays a web page, and only the background color is missing! All the rest of the web page looks correct ... images look fine, text colors are fine (I know what colors I use on my own pages and they look correct) ... it's just the #%$*@ background color!!!

Of course, I advised him to call Dell support and gave him a sort of script, to make sure he conveyed the details of the problem correctly. He spent a couple of hours on the phone (India, Atlanta, who knows where else) and they seemed to understand the description of the symptoms and had him go through driver updates, among other tests they coached him through. One guy said he would research and call back, but of course he never called.

It's got me stumped.
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Post by matthijs »

Seems like you chose the wrong friends with the wrong hardware to ask for testing :wink:

Of course it's impossible for you as a webdeveloper to account for hardware/system software bugs on people's computers. It's unfortunate you encounter these problems just starting with css. But interesting nonetheless. I you get to know what the problems were, please share with us.
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