This ain’t no zen garden

9 Responses to “This ain’t no zen garden”

1. McChris says:
   June 1st, 2004 at 2:17 am

   I feel your pain. IE 5.5 for Mac is tres wonkay. I finally found a stylesheet that worked reasonably well for the browser, but I’ve long been tempted to do a browser-detect that would launch a pop-up alert informing the user, “Warning: your browser is crap,” and take them to the Firefox homepage. (It would also perform this useful service for Netscape 4 users.) What seems even stranger to me is that I’ve seen students and staff people in my lab close out a Netscape session on a Max and open up IE, although I can think of no feature or other reason that would lead the user to prefer IE over Netscape.

2. christopher says:
   June 1st, 2004 at 10:10 am

   This sort of thing catches my eye sometimes because I spend most of my waking hours debugging css for a living. One thing I noticed is that your styles are being declared twice… (realized this using mozilla’s DOM inspector) maybe something to do with the way the css is invoked via php? I’d first take care of that issue, which is undoubtedly making debugging a nightmare.

3. edith says:
   June 1st, 2004 at 10:28 am

   Yeah, see, I don’t know what I’m doing with CSS.  When I moved my site to ExpressionEngine I took the default stylesheet and hacked it to pieces. Yesterday I spent a few hours comparing what I have now to the default template, taking things out and putting them back in to see what happened, and found one thing that was causing it to break badly in IE Mac.  So I took it out, but now my fonts are ugly again.  But in order to fix it right, I have to know what I’m doing, and I really don’t… so today I’m spending a few hours on a bit of remedial CSS edumacation.

   Maybe tomorrow I’ll dig back into my own sheet.  I got very mad at it yesterday, we are not speaking at the moment.

4. Richard the Black says:
   June 2nd, 2004 at 11:41 am

   Yaaarrr!  Vomit burgers topped with human hairballs!  ‘Tis true – the way towards a man’s heart is by way of his stomach!  And my stomach be-eth as black as mine heart, if the contents of my bowels be of any indication.
   Ahoy Edith!  Ol’Richard said he wouldst weigh anchor, and he is as good as his word!  Now…where be those vomit burgers?  I have a hankering for anything that isn’t fish for a change.
   I hope that this message finds ye well, and in good spirits.
   Cheers,
   Richard the Black, esq.
   Scourge of the Seven…uhh…Dwarfs.

5. edith says:
   June 2nd, 2004 at 12:07 pm

   Ahoy Richard the Black!  Your voyage was long indeed but ’tis good to see your barnacled ship on our shores.  Vomit-meat and spirits of rotted vegetable-matter for our scurvied sailor! ‘Tis a meager feast but yours for the plunderin’.

6. Matthew says:
   June 2nd, 2004 at 9:20 pm

   Once we figure it out Edith, you’ll be all set :) . In the meantime… well, I hope you have a cold, because I know how bad that tastes… ACK!

   M

7. edith says:
   June 2nd, 2004 at 10:14 pm

   What’s this ‘we’ shit?  :-P Did you fix something that I didn’t notice?  I did fix the problem that was making the right-hand column get pushed below the left one, in IE Mac.  But now I have a weird border thing goin’ on and I can’t figure out why. It looks wrong on the front page — the blue border shows up white on the sides, but shows up correctly blue on the comments pages like this one.  But they both use the SAME stylesheet, so WTF?

8. edith says:
   June 3rd, 2004 at 1:15 am

   TO ALL:  Matthew helped me, and it’s fixed now!!  I had misplaced a div tag on the index page.  I therefore take back my “whaddaya mean WE” snarkiness.  :-D

9. Matthew says:
   April 21st, 2005 at 2:59 pm

   Ah… a new bit of CSS’ing for your site. Very nice Edith.

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