Re: Dimensions and positioning rendering quirks.

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Dan Tsimbala <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm facing quite annoying complications when attempting to finish a task
> that only appear to be in Firefox. I don't seem to figure out nor the
> reason/logic behind the problem nor the solution for it. I would really
> appreciate any help to solve the problem or at least understand if it's
> gonna be solved.
>
> I have identically positioned and sized elements sets that I use to build
> some kind of visualization of time scale. The only difference between all of
> them is their orientation and position of parent container. Those should be
> completely irrelevant factors, but instead I get quite different results of
> rendering each elements set (difference is one pixel all the time but in
> different directions). Attached is a screenshot of the resuts I get. The

I don't see a screenshot, probably attachments aren't passed through.

Regards,
Martijn

> positionging breaks randomly on most reflows of vertical dimension (resize
> window, scrolling, etc.), so just scrolling the page gives different
> variations of positioning errors. I've tried already approaching solution of
> the problem from different angles (positioning from differnt constaint
> dimensions - bottom, top; using different means to fill area with color -
> bg, border) now and still same result. The most annoying part is it does not
> happen in FF on a different machine running XP (I run Win 7), and on my
> machine it is happening for most major latest versions of FF (5, 6, 7). Even
> wierder - some time ago (two weeks or maybe more) - I reacall it was working
> fine (at least that's what I remember), so I assume this has something to do
> with system updates.
>
> (Have just rechecked - on XP machine all element sets from the screenshot
> are completely identical, differing only in orientation and position as
> aexpected)
>
> Can this be smoothing algorithm problem?
>
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