Re: Dimensions and positioning rendering quirks.

So any idea?

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Dan Tsimbala <[email protected]> wrote:

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