I have to apologize to all those Mac users out there. Apparently, get donkey! was rendering 4 screens wide on IE 5.x running on a Mac. I wanted my site to be big, but not that way. The problem seems to be with Moveable Type’s use of cascading stylesheets to create the page layout. I have removed the offending code from the stylesheet and have replaced it with good old-fashioned HTML tables. I hope that Mac users will now be able to delight in get donkey! web-time fun without all the scrolling!
I would be remiss if I did not thank Jeff Cooper for bringing this problem to my attention and sending me some ghastly screen shots so I too could gasp in horror. Jeff is the purveyor of Cooped Up. It is a fine read and contains excellent wine advice. I have also added Cooped Up to the blogroll for your enjoyment.
Oh and I was remiss to forget to credit Devra for complaining incessantly until I fixed it : ) I am a bad donkey.
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6:45 am on July 24th, 2002
I just was switching browsers to look at your site. All the OS X browsers have CSS rendering bugs of some sort; you are not alone in having displayed badly.
12:42 pm on July 24th, 2002
Hey! What about me? I complained incessantly until you fixed it.
2:00 pm on July 24th, 2002
Awww … Good Donkey!
2:20 pm on July 24th, 2002
Well, now I shudder to tell Rob what his site looks like on NS Windows …
3:27 pm on July 24th, 2002
Oh Dear Lord, what now? Does NS == Netscape?
4:33 pm on July 24th, 2002
Yeah, I think you’ve got a bug in your site counter code. Your sidebar is under your main content.
9:12 am on July 25th, 2002
Ginger, what version of Netscape? I have a crusty old version at home (4.x or something) and I can’t even describe the ugliness of my site on that puppy. At least it works in IE on both Windows and Mac. It also works on Opera 5 and 6 on Windows. I’ll take a look at the counter code and see what’s up. If I can get it to work on NS 6.x I’ll be happy.
9:33 am on July 25th, 2002
Whatever you did last night fixed it. I use Netscape 6.2, and I find that a lot of sites with counters inside tables and CSS render weirdly.
I think one of the counter sites provides counters with bad code, because moving the counter fixes it 9 times out of 10.