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Yehuda Shiran January 13, 2000
The MAC's PRE Bug
Tips: January 2000

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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I found recently that the Mac does not display my columns correctly. The problem occurs when I try to create a new paragraph after a PRE statement. Take a look at the following example:

<P>Here is Newton's second law:</P>
<P><BLOCKQUOTE><PRE><CODE>F = m * a;</CODE></PRE></BLOCKQUOTE></P>
<P>Newton discovered his first law while sitting under a tree on a hot summer day.</P>

Here is how this paragraph displays on the PC or on the Mac's Navigator:

Here is Newton's second law:

F = m * a;

Newton discovered his first law while sitting under a tree on a hot summer day.

On the Mac's Internet Explorer 4.5, you would get something like this:

Here is Newton's second law:

         F = m * a;
Newton discovered his first law while sitting under a tree on a hot summer day.
Notice that the middle line abuts to its following line. I hope Microsoft will fix it in Internet Explorer 5.0 for the Mac, coming up early 2000.

See more examples for this bug in Column 55, OLE Automation in JavaScript.


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