First off, I must say I've been enjoying your wit. Like you, I've also a web developer - in my case, WAMP (also without a net), for the last seven or so years. I'd say, since your DIVS are absolutely positioned anyway, you could trap the 'resize' event and, using the innerWidth/Height (or IE's equivalent), write a function to put things EXACTLY WHERE YOU WANT THEM - DOWN TO THE PIXEL. Of course, you'd have to manage the whole layout in code. I do this for a picture puzzle app I'm writing. Tables didn't work because, regardless of shrinking all metrics to zero, they always left a gap. I even figured out how to determine if there's a vertical or horizontal scrollbar IN ALL BROWSERS. The trick: place a 1x1 div in the bottom right corner. You can even set display='none'. Compare it's offsetTop/Left with the innerWidthHeight/Width. With no scrollbars there'll be a diff of 1. With 'em the diff is 17. Then remove the DIV. Easy peasy?