On issues in the list where Status or Assigned-To are not set, IE6 
doesn't render the right-hand border of the cell.

I suspect it 
does this because the <td> tag generated is empty. If I take the 
generated source and change the empty <td></td> tags to 
<td>&nbsp;</td> the cells render correctly.

Probably an 
IE bug, but one we can work around? Opera renders the table fine 
but isn't great for submitting into Roundup because of the 
wrap="hard" issue.

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You will need to alter your index template to stuff the   in there  
for IE. Mozilla displays the index fine, and honors wrap=hard to boot.  
  
The templating solution would involve a python expression like <td  
tal:content="python:context.status.plain() or default">&nbsp;</td>  
  
(as mentioned in the customisation docs, when an expression  
evaluates to "default", the existing tag contents are left alone)  
  

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Ta Richard: I have tweaked my issue.index accordingly. Templating 
rocks.

Is Mozilla the only fully-supported Roundup web platform 
at the moment?

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Konqueror works just fine too. It's a shame about Opera not   
knowing about wrap=hard. Since it's not standard (as indicated at  
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/t/textarea.htm),  
I'll consider adding an option to Roundup to note text from the CGI.   
 

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Does IE still exhibit this behaviour? 

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Yes. 

(Windows IE6 SP1, Roundup 0.5.6 vanilla classic.)

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Damn IE - honoring "empty-cells: show" isn't that hard, is it? *sigh*

Willing to take suggestions on this. Both solutions I can think of are icky:
1. using "python:blah.plain() or default" and setting the table cell to   by default
2. have the plain() templating functions return ' ' in place of '' (could massively screw up formatting and expressions in other ways

Euww.

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Is there a way to add an optional argument to plain. Something like 
context/topics/plain/orblank

or 
context.topics.plain(orblank=True)

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I guess we could have a new plain() that does this specific functionality, called ieplain() or similar? Perhaps tdplain()?

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A third option:

use '-' to indicate an empty property (see 'Better Alternatives' 
in http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/HTML/emptycells.html).

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i stole some of your styles and it worked great until I
viewed it in IE :(  after X hours i finally got everything
to look exactly the same in IE as mozilla.
IE doesn't support
1) empty-cells  - you know about this one already
2) border-spacing - so you need to add cellspacing=0 to all
<table>s that use border-spacing:0
3) td:first-child - so you need to use a separate class and
specify it for the first <td> in each <tr> (ugly)

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I've changed the default style to not use the borders, but I'm not 
inserting the non-breaking spaces. 
 

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Stupid IE making my templates all icky. 
 
File under "questionable whether it's a fix or not" but the damn 
  are in there now.