Safari 1.0 PRE width bug

As noted in my blog, in certain cases Safari will miscalculate the width of a PRE element. I think I've found the trigger. If a nested container element is preceded by uncontained text and a blank line, and there are "too many" characters contained in the nested element, the PRE width will be too wide. In the examples below, the nested element is a SPAN whose content is the days-of-week line, as follows:

<SPAN CLASS=dow> D M T W J F S</SPAN>

Example 1

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2003 D M T W J F SSeptember
    1 2 3 4 5 6
 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30

| The blank line between '2003' and the nested element triggers the width bug. |

Example 2

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2003 D M TWJFSSeptember
    1 2 3 4 5 6
 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30

| The blank line between '2003' and the nested element triggers the width bug.

Here, the excess whitespace is reduced by reducing the number of characters contained by the nested element.

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Example 3

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2003 D M T W J F SSeptember
    1 2 3 4 5 6
 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30

| The blank line between '2003' and the nested element has been removed, so the bug is not triggered. |

Example 4

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2003 D M T W J F SSeptember
    1 2 3 4 5 6
 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30

| The blank line between '2003' and the nested element no longer triggers the width bug, because now the '2003' is itself contained by a nested element (in this case, another SPAN). |