Autarchy of the Private Cave

IEs4Linux provides a convenient package of Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, and (partially supported) 7.0 for Linux.

It installed and runs fine under Debian Etch:

However, as you could notice from the screenshot above, CPU use is almost 100% while IE6Linux is running. It is better illustrated by the next screen:

I didn’t yet bother finding out what’s wrong, but that must have some kind of a fix, as running at 100% CPU on a laptop is … hot.

In Internet Explorer for Windows (tested with version 6 SP2), if you write CSS code similar to this:

and put your “floatbox” inside a container (such as DIV), you will actually see 200px of the left margin instead of the expected 100px. This problem is known as “IE margin-doubling bug”.

In this post I collected solutions you can use to avoid this problem. The solution I’d recommend is at the end.
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