MacIE doesn't properly support one of the simplest uses of floating
elements, floating an image into the margin in the middle of a paragraph.
Suppose I were writing about a physics problem involving a bunch of
pulleys. This is known as an Atwood's Machine. So say there is a mass
m
3 supported by a system of two pulleys. The pulley closest
to the mass is fixed by a rope to the ceiling, so it can only rotate.
It has inertia I
2. The other pulley is free to move up and
down, and it is being held up on its two ends by a rope that is connected
on one end to the first pulley and on the other end to the ceiling.
This is getting complicated, isn't it? So wouldn't I want to include
a figure, right
here
Figure 1: An Atwood's Machine
in
the text, contained in a
DIV that is floated to the right,
so I can give it a caption? This makes it much easier to understand
the problem. But MacIE doesn't display this correctly. It puts a
line break in the middle of the text where the figure is floated.
This should
not happen. It is a serious bug, since it is in
one of the most basic uses of floating elements.