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::This article is about the ''Internet Explorer box model bug'', that's why it focuses on IE and on this particular bug. Your new edits may be straying off that central subject into less relevant topics like recent W3C spec drafts, recent obscure Mozilla features etc. --[[User:Nigelj|Nigelj]] ([[User talk:Nigelj|talk]]) 20:48, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
::: You are missing the point, IE simply kept the non-W3C box model from pre-CSS era. To cover the the problem as "MS vs W3C" is misrepresentation. --[[User:Voidvector|Voidvector]] ([[User talk:Voidvector|talk]]) 21:20, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
::::No, the point is that IE keeps the non-W3C box model ''to this day'', in various operating modes of IE6, 7 and 8. This can be seen as part of attempts to maintain a "best viewed in IE" web, that is different from the "worldwide" web. It costs a great deal of time, money and effort on the part of the web's designers and coders to try to prevent this becoming reality, despite these attempts.
::::There was no IE support for any CSS box model pre-CSS?! IE3 was the first IE to support any CSS and, "IE3 reliably supports most of the color, background, font and text properties, but does not implement much of the box model."[http://www.w3.org/Style/LieBos2e/history/] IE3 was released on August 13, 1996 and CHSS (later to become just CSS as it could be applied to more than just HTML) had been in existence since October 1994. When IE4 added more support for a CSS box model in Sept 1997, it was either willfully or erroneously contrary to the CSS1 spec that, by then, had been published by the W3C since December 1996. (see [[CSS#History]] and [[Internet Explorer#Version 3]] and the citations leading from those pages) --[[User:Nigelj|Nigelj]] ([[User talk:Nigelj|talk]]) 22:05, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
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