The other day I created a grocery list in Google’s Tasks as it appears inside Gmail. I resized my browser window briefly and discovered what I thought was a Firefox 3.5 bug — The tasks pane rendering above the horizontal scrollbar:
The Behavior as I First Spotted it, in Firefox 3.5 Mac
Before asking anyone about it, I decided to check if the same phenomenon occurs in other browsers. My research:
Not Just a Firefox Thing
I thought, maybe this is a Mac OS X issue. I booted into Windows and fired up IE8:
Definitely not Limited to Mac OS X
Then I wondered, would Google let this slip through in Chrome, too?
Sure Enough
Finally I booted back into Mac OS X and loaded up Gmail in Opera:
Op ... Wah?
I’m not sure what to conclude about all this. Is this a bug from which all major browsers suffer? I can hardly believe the functionality got into all these browsers accidentally. So is it a Gmail bug? It does get in the way of the horizontal scrollbar. I guess the moral of the story is this: When viewing Gmail with Tasks, don’t make your browser window too narrow.