I always get a little question mark over my head every time I read something talking about how IE "Broke" the CSS box model. Those of us who were around back i

I always get a little question mark over my head every time I read something talking about how IE "Broke" the CSS box model. Those of us who were around back in the day recall both IE4 and NN3 allowing one to specify the Width of an object at 100px, with the refreshing expectation that nomatter what padding or borders you applied to it, the width of the rendered element would be 100px. That was the universal standard at the time that the CSS specifications were written. For reasons nobody can explain, the W3C came out with a box model that broke that convention, and that's the model that NN6 followed. Netscape Navigator 6, you will recall, was incapable of rendering Netscape.com correctly when it was first released. That's because Netscape.com was designed to be viewed by the current state of the art browsers on the market, both of which interpreted the box model the way that Internet Explorer did until recently.