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I have now completely redone the blog template and CSS, and although it frightened me at first after I republished by claiming to be unable to access the site, things now seem to be working OK, more or less. The layout problems I was experiencing were largely due to incompatible expectations by the template and my own entries, which I have managed to synchronize better now. I doubt if I will ever get the results to validate with all the stuff that gets added automatically, but at least it lays out as intended.

I’m sure I could do better if I took the trouble to read the instructions, and maybe I will even do that at some point.

Hmm…once again I am experiencing the problem that when the text box for entering the content starts to scroll, I can no longer see the Post and Publish buttons. Could this be another Mozilla bug?

2002 04 26 Simon Bloggery Comments (0) Permalink

OK, what’s going on here? In my naïveté I understood that “blogging tools” were supposed to make web publishing easier. I have just spent far longer in a cycle of editing, publishing, re-editing and re-publishing the previous entry than it would have taken me to write the whole bloody thing out in HTML source in emacs and ftp it to a web site — and it still looks horrible.

My first attempt in MozBlog went to the trouble of translating my HTML tags into plain text by converting “<” to “&lt;” etc, and though moving to Blogger solved that problem, nothing I could do would straighten out the funky line wrapping. Yuk. Yuk. Yuk. And where do the buttons at Blogger disappear to after you write a few lines? Heaven knows how I will ever publish this rant.

2002 04 25 Simon Bloggery Comments (0) Permalink

It was interesting to discover that Mozilla has
had a severe Bidi bug in print headers just about for ever. Print headers didn’t exist when we designed Bidi; we never noticed the bug when they sneaked in a few months before we started checking code in to the tree; and nobody has ever noticed it since. It just goes to show that people don’t
print much, or don’t look very hard at the results.

2002 04 25 Simon Bloggery Comments (0) Permalink

The latest edition of the usually excellent LangaList recommends me to go to ContentAudit for a good laugh, but as I enter the site my (admittely paranoid) alarm triggers are going off one after the other. Why does the site want my email address? Why does it redirect me to a page saying

“Attention Netscape Users
Content Audit is currently designed for Internet Explorer only.”

However funny the results, if the site wants to scan my hard drive from within the browser while online, and is only willing to do this through IE, I think I’ll give it a miss and get my laughs somewhere else.

2002 04 16 Simon General Comments (0) Permalink

Everyone else seems to be doing it, so why not me? The title, if you were wondering, is “על הא ודא”, which is Aramaic for “On This And That”.

2002 04 14 Simon Bloggery Comments (0) Permalink