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The culprit:
The "show listing" table at
http://www.captainsoftheworld.com/mo...rict/shows.php
(in IE6)

The problme:
Why is it that the cell containing "Friday, August 6th 2004" (the top left
cell) won't expand automatically to allow the date to fit on a single line
(in IE6 it wraps the "2004" to another line)? Have I done something wrong
in the contruction of the table (maybe having to do with the 'colspans')?

Thanks!

"Geoff Hague" <> wrote:

> The culprit:
> The "show listing" table at
> http://www.captainsoftheworld.com/mo...rict/shows.php
> (in IE6)
>
> The problme:
> Why is it that the cell containing "Friday, August 6th 2004" (the top left
> cell) won't expand automatically to allow the date to fit on a single line
> (in IE6 it wraps the "2004" to another line)? Have I done something wrong
> in the contruction of the table (maybe having to do with the 'colspans')?
>
> Thanks!


Wow, your page looks completely different in Safari, Mac IE 5.2 and
Mac Netscape 7.
Safari and Netscape have huge blank spaces above the picture.
IE has the tables all over the place.

Oh wait, the tables are ****ed up in Safari and Netscape too, just in
a different way.

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 03:21:59 GMT, Geoff Hague <>
wrote:

> The culprit:
> The "show listing" table at
> http://www.captainsoftheworld.com/mo...rict/shows.php
> (in IE6)
>
> The problme:
> Why is it that the cell containing "Friday, August 6th 2004" (the top
> left
> cell) won't expand automatically to allow the date to fit on a single
> line
> (in IE6 it wraps the "2004" to another line)? Have I done something
> wrong
> in the contruction of the table (maybe having to do with the 'colspans')?
>
> Thanks!
>
>

No, the problem is that your site colors are horrid. And in Opera the date
doesn't even show, just a huge top white region and a dinky neon website
below.

Wow, I have to tell you, I have seen a LOT of sites and yours is the most
visually obnoxious I have ever seen. If that's what you were going for,
congratulations, you kick ass.

And seriously, I don't mean that as an insult. Honestly, I don't see the
cell in question, but even if it wraps in IE that's the least of what's
abnormal about the page.

Neal wrote:
> Geoff Hague wrote:

> > The culprit:
> > The "show listing" table at
> > http://www.captainsoftheworld.com/mo...rict/shows.php
> > (in IE6)
> >
> > The problme:
> > Why is it that the cell containing "Friday, August 6th 2004" (the top
> > left
> > cell) won't expand automatically to allow the date to fit on a single
> > line
> > (in IE6 it wraps the "2004" to another line)? Have I done something
> > wrong
> > in the contruction of the table (maybe having to do with the 'colspans')?
> >
> > Thanks!

> No, the problem is that your site colors are horrid.

I suspect the colors are there only for understanding the layout.

>And in Opera the date
> doesn't even show, just a huge top white region and a dinky neon website
> below.

That "huge top white region' is a problem.

> Wow, I have to tell you, I have seen a LOT of sites and yours is the most
> visually obnoxious I have ever seen. If that's what you were going for,
> congratulations, you kick ass.
>
> And seriously, I don't mean that as an insult. Honestly, I don't see the
> cell in question, but even if it wraps in IE that's the least of what's
> abnormal about the page.

If it was me, I'd bag everything up to this point and start over.

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:34:09 +0900, tm <> wrote:

> Neal wrote:
>> No, the problem is that your site colors are horrid.
>
> I suspect the colors are there only for understanding the layout.

No way. Why would anyone send themself to psychedelic purgatory by doing
that to an otherwise undangerous web page, and then post it here? It's as
if all your friends and coworkers saw you riding a moped, or passed out
drunk and naked on your lawn. You just don't allow it to happen.

I'm really confident this poster meant to foist this technicolor travesty
on his visitors, thinking it looked cool. If I'm wrong, I'll do something
nice. But I think I'm right.

> If it was me, I'd bag everything up to this point and start over.

Here we agree.

Neal wrote:
> tm wrote:
> > Neal wrote:

> >> No, the problem is that your site colors are horrid.
> >
> > I suspect the colors are there only for understanding the layout.
>
> No way. Why would anyone send themself to psychedelic purgatory by doing
> that to an otherwise undangerous web page, and then post it here? It's as
> if all your friends and coworkers saw you riding a moped, or passed out
> drunk and naked on your lawn. You just don't allow it to happen.

Maybe in your platitudinous actuality, but remember, this is a
musician's website.

> I'm really confident this poster meant to foist this technicolor travesty
> on his visitors, thinking it looked cool. If I'm wrong, I'll do something
> nice. But I think I'm right.

Pretty sure he posted the link before without the colors.
Oh, and I could use a beer while you are up.

> > If it was me, I'd bag everything up to this point and start over.
>
> Here we agree.

Dude, the beer...

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:04:28 +0900, tm <> wrote:

> Neal wrote:
>> tm wrote:
>> No way. Why would anyone send themself to psychedelic purgatory by doing
>> that to an otherwise undangerous web page, and then post it here? It's
>> as
>> if all your friends and coworkers saw you riding a moped, or passed out
>> drunk and naked on your lawn. You just don't allow it to happen.
>
> Maybe in your platitudinous actuality, but remember, this is a
> musician's website.

I'm a professional musician. I should know. Incense and peppermints and
all that ****.

>> I'm really confident this poster meant to foist this technicolor
>> travesty
>> on his visitors, thinking it looked cool. If I'm wrong, I'll do
>> something
>> nice. But I think I'm right.
>
> Pretty sure he posted the link before without the colors.
> Oh, and I could use a beer while you are up.

Here, catch. I never saw this posted before, so maybe he did. maybe it was
a recent idea. Got any smokes?

>> > If it was me, I'd bag everything up to this point and start over.
>>
>> Here we agree.
>
> Dude, the beer...

Here, catch.

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 02:12:27 -0400, Neal <> declared in
alt.html:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:04:28 +0900, tm <> wrote:
>> Oh, and I could use a beer while you are up.
>
> Here, catch.
>
> Here, catch.

You _are_ being nice - giving tm 2 beers?

--
Mark Parnell
http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au
"Never drink rum&coke whilst reading usenet" - rf 2004

Neal wrote:
> tm wrote:
> > Neal wrote:
> >> tm wrote:

> >> No way. Why would anyone send themself to psychedelic purgatory by doing
> >> that to an otherwise undangerous web page, and then post it here? It's
> >> as if all your friends and coworkers saw you riding a moped, or passed out
> >> drunk and naked on your lawn. You just don't allow it to happen.
> >
> > Maybe in your platitudinous actuality, but remember, this is a
> > musician's website.
>
> I'm a professional musician. I should know. Incense and peppermints and
> all that ****.

heh. Drummers aren't really musicians you know. They just think they
are.

> >> I'm really confident this poster meant to foist this technicolor
> >> travesty
> >> on his visitors, thinking it looked cool. If I'm wrong, I'll do
> >> something
> >> nice. But I think I'm right.
> >
> > Pretty sure he posted the link before without the colors.
> > Oh, and I could use a beer while you are up.
>
> Here, catch. I never saw this posted before, so maybe he did.

It's been around. Always had that giant white space problem on my
browsers.

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:17:46 +1000, Mark Parnell
<> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 02:12:27 -0400, Neal <> declared in
> alt.html:
>> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:04:28 +0900, tm <> wrote:
>>> Oh, and I could use a beer while you are up.
>>
>> Here, catch.
>>
>> Here, catch.
>
> You _are_ being nice - giving tm 2 beers?

Got a case. Want one? Here...

Hell, it's happy hour somewhere on the planet.