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11 o'clock, January 20, 2003

By popular demand — well, by popular frank assessment of the existing situation, at least — I've thrown out the CSS absolute positioning and gone back to laying out my HTML with tables, the way God intended it.

I've also added a hack to the front page that should prevent the background image from showing through and making the text illegible on browsers that don't understand the CSS “background” attribute. I'll have to do something similar for the archives and the comment preview, but since I do have to get up for work tomorrow, it will have to wait.

Comments

Thank farging god!

—— B, 10:03 AM, Tuesday, January 21, 2003

You've got no excuse for running IE, Mr. I - never - bother - with - RPMs - I - just - install - from - source. :)

But I'm glad I could be of service.

—— David Moles, 10:46 AM, Tuesday, January 21, 2003

Wimp! I slogged through CSS, which proves that one might need a degree in computer science to make it work... or complient browsers :)

Seriously, it took about a week of fighting with CSS before I realized the tutorials were mostly wrong about most things. I used the W3C spec to figuret it out. My site is all CSS if you want a reference.

—— Scott Janssens, 4:02 PM, Tuesday, January 21, 2003

I'd have loved to do the whole thing in CSS. My last day-job project made heavy use of CSS formatting objects, and as a typography geek I find CSS a lot more congenial than HTML 3 “ which, let's face it, is pretty 20th century.

Like I said, the original code worked just fine in Mozilla. I can't help it if most of my friends are happy in the Dark Ages. :)

—— David Moles, 4:28 PM, Tuesday, January 21, 2003

*nods in agreement, re: Mozilla*

And BTW, David, I replied to you over at Greg's site about requiring name but not e-mail...

—— Scott Reilly, 5:32 PM, Tuesday, January 21, 2003