Comments on: Uncovering the “Explorer 6 Duplicate Characters Bug” in the wild

By: Wolle

Wolle — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:11:12 +0000

I didn ´t see this bug in the wilderness. And i think i wouldn ´t see it never, because there are more and more IE7 useres. But normaly also the IE7 has enough bugs to lough about them.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:34:18 +0000

Excellent, I have been trying to fix this exact problem for the last hour and eventually found your post. Problem fixed! Thanks.

By: Rudi

Rudi — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:29:28 +0000

Protected all the IE bugs, and use FF or Opera.
Unfortunately most of the people using IE and therefore we have to live with all the “problems”.

By: Russ

Russ — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:47:30 +0000

I shall… like endangered species, they should be protected.

By: Jermayn Parker

Jermayn Parker — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:27:57 +0000

Sounds like your going to miss the IE 6 bugs –

By: Wybe

Wybe — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:18:45 +0000

Looks like a distant cousin of the three-pixel-text-jog:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/threepxtest.html

By: Jean-FranÃ§ois Le Gac

Jean-FranÃ§ois Le Gac — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:42:04 +0000

This bug also comes when the code is commented. If your element is in float and you have some comments around (sometimes even a bit far!), just delete the comments and that would fix the bug. (sorry for my english but i’m french )

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:48:24 +0000

We saw that a couple weeks ago during a database redesign meeting. It showed up in the HTML presentation.
Confusing as heck.
We hadn’t heard of that particular bug but we made the connection with the rendering issue of scroll-bars being added when page width was specified at %100.
Reducing the percent total value to less than %100 cleared the duplicate character issue right up.