Internet Explorer had no problems keeping size of the first cell 50 pixels wide. This automatically disqualified it from the further competition. Starting this very moment all our efforts were targeted on making Navigator display fixed-width cell. We thought it would be extremely sneaky if we will emulate this fixed cell by using another, inner table of fixed width. The only drawback was that table cell containing inner table was freely resizeable, bringing undesirable gap.
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