Yup, still here. Been working a bit more than usual at three different jobs plus I still have school, so I don't reply as much as I used to. I get home and check and there are 10 questions and Thor has already answered 8 of them flawlessly, so I figure I'll just save the bandwith and time to repeat Thor Also I'm working on my site, http://demonlag.com and that's taking a ton of time to set up. You also may miss me because I don't post through Supernews anymore, I now post through Octanews because they are far faster and way cheaper than Supernews, but with no where near the spam filtering. So yes, I'm around. -- AIM: FrznFoodClerk email: [email protected]_cast.net (_ = m) website: under construction Need a technician in the south Jersey area? email/IM for rates/services
Just a note: Checked your site and it's almost unreadable, (blue on black), in both Netscape 4.80 and IE 6. The journal part is OK. Thought you might want to know. P.S.: I can appreciate life in NJ---grew up in Millburn, Army Signal Corps basic training at Sea Girt. California has it beat all to hell! Virg Wall -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law
Blue on black!? This is the CSS I'm using to style it: body {color: white; background-color: black} In both IE6 and Mozilla FireFox nightlies I see white text on a black background. Are you sure you aren't loading a custom stylesheet that is overriding mine? -- AIM: FrznFoodClerk email: [email protected]_cast.net (_ = m) website: under construction Need a technician in the south Jersey area? email/IM for rates/services
White text on black background for me, only blue is the links, and we both know that color is set on my end.
Which isn't technically true, as I could very easily say: A {color: red;} A:visited {color:yellow;} And make it whatever color I want. But in this case, you are correct as I don't believe it's necessary to style my links. -- AIM: FrznFoodClerk email: [email protected]_cast.net (_ = m) website: under construction Need a technician in the south Jersey area? email/IM for rates/services
Using Netscape 7.1 it's OK as you say. Netscape 4.8 shows the heading not centered (all text is set left). Once I removed Proximitron from IE 6, it was OK. It's also OK on MyIE2. Visited links ars so dark as to be almost invisible on even the correct renderings. You might consider litening up the background. The journal is OK, but I suppose you're using the "canned" format. Hope we soon get over the browser wars! I have to keep IE to get Microsoft sites, and I use Netscape 4.8 for most everything else. I know it's not the best, but I'm too lazy to change. Will try FireFox when I get a round toit. Virg Wall
Tho they seem to be heating up a bit with the new ones out. Me too, including silly folks who just do their pages for viewing in IE.
Netscape 4.8 requires a half million work around hacks to get CSS to work at all, and I don't quite care if it shows right in that browser. Anyone using a Netscape product should upgrade to a Gecko based product, Netscape 4.8 is a PITA anyway. I'll see if I can't reinstall Proxomitron and see what it is stripping from the page that is causing IE to show it incorrectly. I'll consider changing the visited link color. I like white on black, as it's very easy to read for most people, as opposed to black on white. Once you use FireFox, you won't want to go back to Netscape 4.8 -- AIM: FrznFoodClerk email: [email protected]_cast.net (_ = m) website: under construction Need a technician in the south Jersey area? email/IM for rates/services
I found a really odd quirk in IE. Using a doctype that puts IE into standards mode, having a DIV with text-align: center defined, nested inside a DIV with text-align: center defined, the nested DIVs text is shifted about 75% to the right. Both DIVs have a width of 100%, so both end up encompassing the entire view, but the second DIV ends up being shifted to the right by a ton for no reason I can find. From what I see, the CSS I used conforms to the W3C's CSS standard, the HTML is 100% valid HTML4.0 markup, but IE botches the job (both Opera and Gecko browsers show it right). This actually made me spend another 15 minutes designing a workaround. I wish I could send to Microsoft: Bill for services rendered: ..25 hours * $30/hr = $7.50 Reason: Crappy bug in your web browser that I have to work around But I feel that would end up getting me no where -- AIM: FrznFoodClerk email: [email protected]_cast.net (_ = m) website: under construction Need a technician in the south Jersey area? email/IM for rates/services
Thanks. I'll put with my collection of others like it as soon as I get aroundtuit! Virg Wall PS: I am beginning to think I ought to bite the bullet and re-arrange my computing set-up. I'm still using Windows98FE with most of the MS updates. No problem with crashes, and it is set up to boot to Linux RH9 directly from within Windows with a .pif shortcut. Just recently had a problem trying to use my son's router to get DSL. I know Win98FE has network connection problems, but there are supposed to be third party programs that work with it. I still use a lot of old DOS programs, some of which I wrote in pre-Windows days, so easy access to DOS is important. They all work with DOS 7.x, so that's not a problem if I keep FAT32. Was thinking of setting up a WinXP computer as a second system. I know I could dual boot XP with 98, but that's a bit much. Another need for a "Round Tuit"! VW
I agree entirely, but it works fine with my bank's site, and my two stock broker accounts. I use it for e-mail and news groups just out of laziness, where it work well enough. It at least avoids some of the MS security problems. I have Netscape 7.1, Mozilla and Opera. It's just a matter of moving everything that's on N 4.8 now. I keep Prox on IE because I often use it for big-charts.com, which has dozens of ads that Prox eliminates, cutting the time in half. There are many sites that Proximitron messes up, even when it's set to "By Pass". I think Thor found the same problem. Just don't use that format for anything you think people might want to print. Now that bam-bam directed me to a Roundtuit, I'll give it a try. What makes a good e-mail--news reader complement to FireFox? I have X-news, but it seems overly complex. Virg Wall
Xnews is simple once you figure it out, takes about a week or two to get used to it though. As for printing, it's real simple, just make another set of style rules that apply to printed documents. -- AIM: FrznFoodClerk email: [email protected]_cast.net (_ = m) website: under construction Need a technician in the south Jersey area? email/IM for rates/services
Light gray type is printable with no additional rules needed. It also looks a bit more polished and stylish than stark, raw, white on black. BB
Change the background to something more soothing. Its too hard to read. Have a nice week... Trent Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed!
