I've been having some problems in IE lately after "developing" the current skin for subtext; when it scrolled text would get lost. An email from a product manager in Microsoft Scotland who was running my engagement up there for the last three weeks give me the kick up the backside I needed.
Basically when I scrolled up or down text would get lost; anything from the bottom half of a line to whole paragraphs and more, for example;
It turns out (surprise) to be an IE bug. After posting a plea on channel9 for help; IE didn't cope well with setting the line spacing. The answer came;
I think the problem is with this rule
.post .body
{
font-family: Georgia, serif;
font-size: 110%;
line-height: 17px;
text-align: justify;
text-justify: newspaper
}
Setting line-height to be less than font height doesn’t work very well. I don’t know if it is new, would be surprised if it is.
Now from what I can see the line spacing wasn't actually smaller than the font height; which by default is 14px. A relative font size of 110% should come out at 15px, still smaller than the height. Perhaps it's a bug when matching relative and absolute sizes. Removal of the line-height attribute fixes the problem and a new version of the skin is available on subtextskins.com