warning, IE is STILL broken in latest hotfix MS04-004 / KB832894

From: nusrat (nusrat_at_rocketmail.com)
Date: 02/02/04 

Date: 2 Feb 2004 15:51:15 -0800

It's pretty well known that scrolling is broken in the version of
mshtml.dll
which shipped as part of MS03-048 / KB824145 in November:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8519074~mode=flat~days=9999

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+%22ms03-048%22+OR+kb824145+OR+q824145+OR+
824145+mshtml+scroll+OR+scrolls+OR+scrolling+OR+scrolled

Like a lot of people, I circumvented the problem by backing off to the
prior version of mshtml, waiting to see if the next release of mshtml
would be fixed.

The good news:
the latest fix seems to fix the scrolling problem.

The bad news:
the latest fix is broken in new ways.
Example:
Because of vision problems, my IE settings are set to
General => Colors => background=grey, don't use Windows colors,
and
General => Accessibility => Ignore colors specified on web pages.

After the latest fix (MS04-004 / KB832894), these settings are
ignored.
I confirmed this by uninstalling and re-installing the fix several
times,
and this bug is consistent and reproducible.
The bug disappears when I revert to the pre-November mshtml.

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