Absolutely-positioned elements stretch to accomodate floats

Placing a right-floated element in a left-positioned absolutely-positioned element causes the following behavior:

• Opera and iCab display correctly (I think); the absolutely-positioned element is sized to fit the float or other nodes of the element, whichever is wider
• Gecko stretches the absolutely-positioned element to the maximum width allowed by the containing block
• KHTML stretches the absolutely-positioned element to the sum of the width of the float and the other child nodes
• (ppknote: IE behaves as Firefox)

My understanding of the box model spec is that Opera and iCab's behavior is correct; if anyone can corroborate this it would be greatly appreciated.

Test page Workaround is not included
Reported by: Josh Fremer.

Explorer 5-6 Windows, Explorer 7, Explorer Mac, Mozilla, Safari | Reported on 12 December 2006.

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