Tricklin

There are plenty of people, besides me, that can't stand IE and the problems it causes them. And These people have gone the extra mile:

There are countless bugs in Internet Explorer, but here are the main reasons to choose a free alternative.

• Prone to viruses and worms
• Renders pages incorrectly. Web designers then need to spend extra time working so that pages work in Internet Explorer. This puts costs up, and slows the web down.
• Doesn't let people resize certain text sizes. This means those with poor sight cannot read small text on many sites.
• Far slower program than other web browsers
• Far larger program than other web browsers
• Isn't as user-centric as other web browsers. It lacks many handy features such as tabbed browsing and integrated search
• Doesn't support PNG images properly

-- StopIE.com

And check out "ie7.com". Gotta love it.

They've changed things up a bit over at dictionary.com.

It looks slick, clean, and more user friendly. Best of all they are using CSS for layout. Because of this, it seems to generate pages much quicker than before. I'll have to give my props to the designers over at happycog.com, the ones responsible for the new layout and redesign of dictionary.com.

This issue has puzzled me for quite some time, and finally after some research I was able to figure out just what the heck was going on.

The Problem

For some odd and seemingly unexplainable reason, IE will display duplicate/repeating characters even though the code does not represent this.

...
      <div id="thumbnails" style="display:none;"></div>
      <div id="story" style="position:relative;float:right;">
         < ;p style="position:relative;float:right;">01.01.01</p>
         < ;h2>Title</h2>
         < ;p>Lorem Ipsum ...</p>
      </div>
   </div>
   <div id="footer">
      <a href="http://xxx" title="Click here to go to the main page.">home</a>
      &nbsp;|&nbsp;< br />       <a href="http://xxx" title="Click here to go to the about page.">about</a>
      &nbsp;|&nbsp;< br />       <a href="http://xxx" title="Click here to go to the photos page.">photos</a>
      &nbsp;|&nbsp;< br />       <a href="http://xxx title="Click here to go to the contact us page.">contact</a>
      &nbsp;||&nbsp;
      <a href="http://xxx" title="Click here to go to the site map.">site map</a>
      <br />
      &copy;&nbsp;20 06  <a href="http://www.tricklin.com">tricklin.com</a>
   </div>
   <!-- end 'footer' -->
</div>
<!-- end 'page' -->
...

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