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Posted on March 11, 2004 @ 8:42 pm
Well, I said a new design might be on the horizon, and here it is. I’d definitely appreciate any feedback on the new look here at Apropos of Something, as well as any reports on things that aren’t working (I know the profile link isn’t quite right).
Speaking of things that don’t work, I’ve already encountered a problem in Internet Explorer that I can’t figure out. In IE, some images here on the main page don’t load until they’re moused over or selected. Anybody out there with actual design skills know how to solve this? Also, text highlighting/selecting doesn’t seem to be working quite right in IE either.
Update: It seems that the transparent floaty columns were causing the image problems in IE. Switching to opaque columns fixes the error, but sacrifices a bit of the design. Oh, well. Interestingly enough, it was my wife — who has never designed a webpage in her life — who suggested the fix. Meanwhile, it turns out that the text selection bug is a well-known IE problem that occurs when using absolute positioning. C’est la vie.
Another update: Andy also correctly pointed me toward the transparency effects as the most likely culprit in the Case of the Disappearing Images, cleaning up my stylesheet for me in the process. Thanks for the help!
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I like! Your own toy robot?
You inspired me enough to get off my duff and do at least a partial redesign. I am still hesitant to use the non-standard alpha methods though, and am now currently sticking with PNGs. Non-gecko browsers can suck it.
I am not sure I understand your highlighting/selecting issues. Maybe I will have to try at work.
Very sexy design, it might restore some of my reputation after I was rumoured to be browsing a page with so many flowers on it.
But this, this is very cool. The name text reminds me of something.
And it seems to works fine in my IE.
I dig your digs, Jess. By the way how’s that Nellie McKay album? Any good?
Thanks for the feedback, everyone!
Doug: Actually, it’s Bill Gates’ robot. Or at least I found it in the Microsoft clipart gallery, so I assume it’s his.
Jay: I still haven’t gotten around to buying the Nellie McKay album (mumble… Futurama DVD… mumble), although I plan to do so sooner or later. I’ll be sure to post a review once I’ve picked it up and given it a good listen.
Oh yeah, no more Slurm?
Ah…the Slurm! I knew I was forgetting something!
FYI, your right border behaves badly in Safari v1.2. I submitted it as a bug to Apple so if you start getting referrers from apple.com that’s why.
You can see a screen grab at the URL below, but please don’t feel compelled to worry about it. Safari is still a work in progress in some areas. Out of curiousity, have you tested it with Opera?
http://wiw.org/~seth/xfer/screen.jpg
That’s weird about Safari because it uses the Gecko rendering engine so it should display pages exactly like Mozilla or Firefox, but it obviously doesn’t.
Opera renders the page just fine, with the minor exception that when you view the entry and comments on the same page (like in Seth’s screenshot), there are visable horizontal lines (’s) between the comments. I wouldn’t worry about it though.
Oops. That (’s) was supposed to be (<hr>’s) but I forgot the comments allowed HTML.
Andy -
Safari is not gecko-based. It’s based on KHTML, iirc.
http://www.mozilla.org/browser-innovation.html