Re: interpretation of float model - Mozilla vs Opera & IE

Right.  I'm not saying I agree with the spec necessarily, but Mozilla 
and Safari are behaving correctly according to the language of the 
current spec.

dave

On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 10:03AM, Chavchanidze Giorgi wrote:

>
>> Mozilla's rendering is correct.  Safari also puts the second float
>> below the first.
> Opera 7 does the same, but CSS2.1 says:
>
> 10.3.5 Floating, non-replaced elements
> If 'left', 'right', 'margin-left', or 'margin-right' are specified as
> 'auto', their computed value is '0'.
> If 'width' is specified as 'auto', the computed value is the 
> "shrink-to-fit"
> width.
> Calculation of the shrink-to-fit width is similar to computing the 
> width of
> a table cell using the automatic table layout algorithm. Roughly: 
> calculate
> the preferred width by formatting the content without breaking lines 
> other
> than where explicit line breaks occur, and also calculate the preferred
> minimum width, e.g., by trying all possible line breaks. CSS 2.1 does 
> not
> define the exact algorithm. Thirdly, compute the available width: in 
> this
> case, this is the width of the containing block minus 'left', 'right',
> 'margin-left' and 'margin-right'. (Omit 'left' and 'right' if they do 
> not
> apply to this element.)
> Then the shrink-to-fit width is: min(max(preferred minimum width, 
> available
> width), preferred width).
>