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Still Reality-Based After All These Years

A thousand pardons!

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.

July 23rd, 2002 Posted by Rob | General comments | 8 comments

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8 Comments

  1. 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.

    Comment by Ginger | 7/24/2002

  2. Hey! What about me? I complained incessantly until you fixed it.

    Comment by Devra | 7/24/2002

  3. Awww … Good Donkey! ;)

    Comment by Devra | 7/24/2002

  4. Well, now I shudder to tell Rob what his site looks like on NS Windows …

    Comment by Ginger | 7/24/2002

  5. Oh Dear Lord, what now? Does NS == Netscape?

    Comment by Rob Humenik | 7/24/2002

  6. Yeah, I think you’ve got a bug in your site counter code. Your sidebar is under your main content.

    Comment by Ginger | 7/24/2002

  7. 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.

    Comment by Rob Humenik | 7/25/2002

  8. 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.

    Comment by Ginger | 7/25/2002

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