Re: Dimensions and positioning rendering quirks.

Sorry for late reply, here's the link to it:
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/463e8

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Martijn <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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