Eric Richardson lives in Los Angeles, California, and is generally interested in the intersection between technology, community and news.

After founding hyperlocal news site blogdowntown and working in public radio, today he works on pattern-based analytics applications for Emcien.

More Browser Fun

Posted Thursday, February 16, 2006, at 10:05PM by Eric Richardson

Firefox (and Camino) on the Mac apparently can't pop an element up over the scrollbar on a div. The scrollbar just shows through, cutting into your popped up element. This is not the case with Firefox on Windows. Neither IE or Safari have a problem with it.

On the other hand, I've managed to create a bold style that Safari decides to just not show sometimes the first time you display a list that features it. As soon as you touch the scrollbar it pops into view. Sometimes I even see the text before it disappears. Changing the tag doesn't alter the behaviour. Of course it has no problem if I load the same HTML and style into a flat HTML file, so I don't know how to even begin to debug that one. None of the other browsers have an issue with it.

Comments —