Re: [dita-fa-edboard] FW: FIXED: Internet Explorer select text bug

[Scott Prentice <sp@leximation.com>]

Looks good to me!

...scott



Carol Geyer wrote:

> Good news...
>
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>From: Greg Rundlett [mailto:greg.rundlett@oasis-open.org] 
>Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 6:37 PM
>To: Carol Geyer
>Cc: Sharon Nuccio
>Subject: FIXED: Internet Explorer select text bug 
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>Several DITA Ed. Board members reported that they could not highlight or "select" text rendered on the pages of the dita.xml.org
>website.
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>The IE "select text" bug is a common bug that gets introduced whenever CSS floats are used in layout that also uses the '<base>'
>HTML tag.
>This is not a bug that is unique to Drupal or the FriendsElectric theme.  Apparently the base tag exposes a bug in Internet
>Explorer's ability to render.
>
>The fix that I implemented (while trying to preserve the well-formedness of the XHTML) was to add a conditional comment that only IE
>speaks, closing the base tag in a broken way that only IE
>understands: <base></base> instead of <base /> which is proper.
>
>So, in a nutshell: it is fixed.
>
>Non-IE clients will get well-formed markup that works.
>
>IE clients will get 'IE' markup that works.
>
>If you notice that it is not fixed, please report your findings with the exact version of browser you are using.  Thank you.
>
>Carol, please forward this message.
>
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>Gregory S. Rundlett
>Manager
>Technology Services
>OASIS
>"Advancing E-Business Standards Since 1993"
>http://www.oasis-open.org
>(978) 667-5115 x 205
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