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So I’ve mostly

January 31, 2002 by Michael Boyle

So I’ve mostly

installed my new design here at mikel dot org. There are still some nails and debris hanging around, but it’s OK now. And although there is still a table or two, it’s CSS and HTML 4.01 compliant. Or at least the templates were when I tested them immediately before adapting them to the various Blogger formats.

Tags: Blogger, Blogging, CSS, Design, Media, Test

So with a fresh approach

January 21, 2002 by Michael Boyle

So with a fresh approach

I managed to get the new mikel dot org design working, more or less. But really more or less. It appears perfectly in both IE5/Mac and IE 5.5 Win. It appears OK in Netscape 6.2. The whole thing is very weird though. It started working when I commented out all the margin variables and nested the bottom two divs inside the div containing the top content (the title graphic etc.). Then I used top and left positioning to put up the main text div. Fair enough. The positioning worked OK at the top and left.

Now the funny part. I didn’t want to specify a width for the main text div, as I want the site to be perfectly fluid. When I set a right position it worked perfectly in IE 5.5/Win. It didn’t work at all in IE5/Mac. So just for kicks I put in a “margin-right” as well. Suddenly it worked perfectly in IE on both platforms (which I don’t think it should do). Only Netscape does things as I would expect, which is to start the margin x pixels over from where the right edge is supposed to be (from where “right: #px” tells it to start counting).

Anyhow, it validates as valid CSS now, and the content is very readable on the platforms that I’ve tested it on, so I’m going to implement it in the next few days. If anyone can set me straight on my CSS foibles, however, I would really appreciate it.

Tags: CSS, Design, Funny, Platform, Readable, Test

From the SF Gate

January 14, 2002 by Michael Boyle

From the SF Gate

comes an article called Please Lick This iMac / Yet another utterly annoying, nearly perfect gizmo gem from those shameless bastards at Apple by Mark Morford. Faux protestation done right.

Tags: Apple, Protest, Test

I had a lot of success

January 14, 2002 by Michael Boyle

I had a lot of success

today with Radio Userland. Fun stuff, particularly since I played around with Frontier 4 way back when, and Radio is clearly living up to the promise that was evident even then. The latest summary of my experiences is on my Radio test site.

Tags: Test

I moved

January 12, 2002 by Michael Boyle

I moved

my Radio tester over here to this server, but in testing more found some things that make it a no-go for me. Pity. If anyone can shed light on the problems I mention there I would appreciate it.

Tags: Test

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