Originally reported by john at: http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/9628

Right now we're rounding off the answers from width(), height(), etc. to the nearest pixel - this makes it hard to do good positioning of elements (especially for animations). For example if you have 3 items that are width 33% inside of a 100px element we're returning 33px for each element. Theoretically an animation method might be able to return a more interesting result if they know that there are extra fractional-numbers getting rounded off.

I got a report on this directly from Mozilla but I agree with them that this particular change makes it hard to get to good numbers.

See also: #3239.

Issue reported for jQuery 1.6.1