MSDN Blogs look.. Well.. Really bad in IE7

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re: MSDN Blogs look.. Well.. Really bad in IE7

Arron [MSFT] — Wed, 03 May 2006 20:45:37 GMT

This page is rendering correctly in IE7 per the CSS design and what the CSS spec states. There are multiple min-width settings setting items in the center column to a minimum width of 650px. This means the content cannot be thinner than 650px so using the columns as a reference I came up with:

Left column: 181px
Center column: 650px
Right column: 200px
Plus the 1px gray border x2

This adds up to a total 1033px.

Obviously the total is over 1024px which is a web design flaw, no web page should ever have an overall min-width of > 796px. Next the issue is the 650px min-width is nested within a 20px padded div. Since padding is added to the width calculation (this is correct per CSS spec) this exaggerates the 650px min-width problem we are seeing.

To correct the problem either remove or readjust the min-width settings to correct the current overflow.

re: MSDN Blogs look.. Well.. Really bad in IE7

Steven Don — Wed, 03 May 2006 17:49:49 GMT

It's probably more of a problem with the skin you have on your blog (which seems to be the default skin). Other skins look fine: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/, http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/.

re: MSDN Blogs look.. Well.. Really bad in IE7

Shahar Prish - MSFT — Wed, 03 May 2006 03:51:19 GMT

What resolution are you running? My IE7 machine is on 1024x768. All the text is clipped.

And you should take everything cum grano salis in my opinion. :)

re: MSDN Blogs look.. Well.. Really bad in IE7

Steven Don — Wed, 03 May 2006 00:56:55 GMT

Should I take this "cum grano salis"? Looks fine to me, although the shrinking logic is incorrect, meaning the rightmost column may overlap the content on this page. Other than that, it looks identical to Firefox' display.