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I think the poster meant this...?
Authored by: blueaudio on Sep 25, '03 11:30:57AM

I'm not sure, but I think what they meant was not just simple cascading, but a weird kind of placement. I get a behavior sort of like this in IE, here's how to reproduce it:

With the IE window at the top left, if you create a new window, it will cascade down and to the right such that the full title bar of the old window is seen, and it's roughly the same distance to the right.

Now close the new window, and move the original window slightly to the left until it's offscreen a tiny bit. Create a new window, and this time you'll see that the new window covers almost all of the title bar of the old window, and it's only shifted to the right about half as much as before. If you now create a third window, it will cascade the right distance from the second window.

This behavior confused me for a long time until I realized it was being caused by the first window's edge being slightly offscreen.

I just tested this in Safari, and it doesn't seem to happen when the original window is offscreen to the left, but I guess if it's offscreen to the right, it places the new window at the top left covering some of the title bar of the original window. I wouldn't really call that a bug, but the IE thing is maybe borderline bug.



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