Reflections on max-width
Saturday, July 5th, 2008A couple of years ago, I added a page to my old site on an “easy” fix for emulating max-width behavior in Internet Explorer, by utilizing a powerful IE5 feature called dynamix properties/expressions.
Briefly, these expressions allow a web author to hook script expressions into the dynamic nature of HTML elements. The natural events of the page (onresize, onclick, onmouseover and so on) causing these expressions to be re-evaluated whenever content could possibly reflow. The effect is naturally very powerful.