Instructions: mouse over the words "here" and "here too" and compare results with MSIE 6

Actual results: event.offset values are reset when hovering over a text node

Expected results: event.offset values should not be reset when hovering over a text node; just like in MSIE 6

here
here too

event.offsetX
event.offsetY

"Sets or retrieves the x-coordinate of the mouse pointer's position relative to the object firing the event."
event.offsetX at MSDN2

MSIE 6, MSIE 7, MSIE 8 beta 1 and Konqueror 3.5.8 all pass this test.

HTML 4.01 Strict compliant