While this has nothing to do with Perl, most of us are also web developers and often have to code for both IE and NS. This is a bug in NS that IE handles correctly. (Tested with Netscape 7.0 and IE 5.50. Mozilla 1.3 also has this bug, as does NS 6.2 and NS 4.73)
The HTML that demonstrates this is: 
<html><head><title>Interesting bug</title></head>
<body>
<table width="300">
    <tr>
        <td>
            <nobr><a href="">[AAAAAA]</a></nobr><nobr><a href="">[BBBB
+BB]</a></nobr><nobr><a href="">[CCCCCC]</a></nobr><nobr><a href="">[D
+DDDDD]</a></nobr><nobr><a href="">[EEEEEE]</a></nobr><nobr><a href=""
+>[FFFFFF]</a></nobr><nobr><a href="">[GGGGGG]</a></nobr><nobr><a href
+="">[HHHHHH]</a></nobr><nobr><a href="">[IIIIII]</a></nobr><nobr><a h
+ref="">[JJJJJJ]</a></nobr><nobr><a href="">[KKKKKK]</a></nobr>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

[download]
Yes, that is one huge line. When you run it, you notice that NS displays (on my browser) 4 elements. If you put a whitespace after the </nobr> tag for DDDDDD and refresh, you'll notice that IE has the whitespace added, but NS will show you the second line. Do it after IIIIII and you'll see all three lines.

Furthermore, if you remove the <nobr> around AAAAAA, you'll notice that NS ignores the width specification for the <table> tag.

As soon as my account for Bugzilla activates, I will go ahead and report it to them.

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In reply to (OT) Bug found in NS that IE handles correctly by dragonchild

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