Topic awaiting preservation: Why does this happen?

I've been toying with the idea of a webpage preview such as

<iframe src="http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum=DHTML/Javascript&number=2"

 style="zoom: 50%;" width="800" height="479"></iframe>

It only works in IE but it works pretty much like I thought it would. It shrinks everything in the page to 50% it's size. Everything that is except pull down menus. Why don't they rescale with everything else. So far every page with a pull down menu I tested failed to rescale properly. What's up with that?

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[This message has been edited by Emperor (edited 11-19-2002).]

ask Microsoft they're the only ones who support that silly style.

First they can't even keep up with established standards, but while they're working hard to keep in NON-compliance, they still find time to screw up the ideas they come up with on their own.

That's what I call software engineering at its best.

LMAO! Anyone else?

The pull downs are windows combo boxes. When they wrote IE I think they sort of modified all the other controls to accept CSS but they never fully redid the combo box. I think the reason is because when the actually wrote the combo box back in Windows 95 they kind of wrote it like shit. It doesn?t program the same as the other controls either; it doesn?t conform to some of the window styles, it doesn?t resize properly, I could go on and on. It?s bad. I don?t think you will ever get it to do what you want because it was programmed poorly to begin with and no one?s ever gotten around to fixing it.

Thanks Rooster. That makes sense.

~ Doh! messed up post. You know, thinking clearly before I post might be a good idea. ~

[This message has been edited by genis (edited 11-19-2002).]

No problem. I've had my share of those too.

I've struggled with pulldowns and CSS for awhile (like, try eliminating their borders to give a page a nice clean, flat appearance... not). So, i posted (and re-posted) a message asking why pulldowns don't seem to be subject to things like border:0px; But, after they decided to stop ignoring my messages...

Pulldowns are not really part of IE, but rather are really Windows controls (part of the Windows kernal).

Another nasty attribute that pulldowns exhibit is a damnable ability to bleed through any overlayed (z-index) element like a colored span. Layout would look a lot cleaner if these animals were CSS-able.

.rob

I think I am going to start building my own pulldowns from scratch and stop using that control altogether.