I saw an amazing show last night
at the Thinker's Union Lodge 811. Not just another Grackle Mundy. More to come.
I guess rebels are supposed to be unruly.
Opera is a great browser, I've been
using the free version of 7.2 installed on top of 7.11. However, I've been
encountering some bizarre
bugs in it's rendering of css. First and foremost, it's been ignoring
the precedence of styles embedded in the <head>
of the page over imported styles. I haven't had any confirmation
of this from anyone else, so it might just be my system. All the secondary
pages of the cosmodemonic site were coded
to be variations on a theme with missing <div>'s
in the html and embedded styles to reposition the remaining ones. Opera
refused to reposition until the page was reloaded. I found the same problem
on a page by
css-guru Eric Meyer. If you're using Opera 7.2, reload it to see if
things move around. In my browser the main content div jumps from the left
side to the center. (I know one should never reveal
one's sources, but check out the complex
spiral...look familiar?)
Secondly, Opera
makes the footer jump around on this page. When the page is reloaded/resized,
the position: fixed; footer jumps 10-12 pixels
off the bottom. The really weird thing is that when any link on the page
is hovered, the footer goes back home. I almost like it. I haven't figured
out how to fix it yet, but here's what I think is going on: Opera is creating
space in the original render for a horizontal scroll-bar and then at some
later point realizing that the scroll-bar is unnecessary and not rendering
it -- leaving the footer hanging over a non-existent scroll-bar. It jumps
back to it's proper position because my stylesheet has the rule #footer
a:hover:before {content: attr(title); } which makes the neat effect
of inserting a word when the footer link is hovered (in css-2 compliant
browsers.) So, hovering causes the browser to re-render. I still don't know
why hovering any link on the page does it or (more importantly) what's triggering
the inchoate horizontal scroll-bar.
I got style,
(miles
and miles). I've been working on the lonestar
site and fighting the server
here. This is the css
from the lonestar site imported over here for a little while. It looks a
little messed up because it wasn't made for this html,
I just kind of shoehorned
it. I just downloaded the new mozilla
firebird 0.7.0 so far so good. It has a stylesheet switcher in the bottom
left corner, so if you can't take the corporate style you can return to
the workers.
I made a new stylesheet,
so if your browser supports switching stylesheets you have yet another viewing choice. I hope it will inspire the workers of the world...¡Volem Treballar! I may in the near future put some javascript style-switching links on the page, but I'm trying to understand the code first and my ignorance is vast.
I'm busy, trying to re-position all my pages. I got burned by my ignorance
again and let dreamweaver do what it wanted to. When an xhtml
page is written by dreamweaver, it begins with the code: <?xml
version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> which
unbeknownst to me, triggers quirks
mode in ie6.
That means that it renders all this css-positioning
even worse than usual...kind of like a make it look like crap switch. I'm
going to wait on changing the lonestar pages until
the complete redesign, but I'm going to fix all the cosmodemonic pages tonight.
Is this what it means to be a computer geek? Staying home on Friday night to work on box-model compliance? Yeah, I guess so.
I Hate Layout Tables,
I've been working on what I thought would be some minor changes to the lonestar site. It took forever and drove me crazy. Though the table layout is relatively simple, no nesting and all the real content in a single cell, adding a new tab in the navbar was absolute hell.
I re-designed the layout in the about section of this site in about an hour...it took me at least four to add a damn tab. Sorry, for the rant. I guess I need to do a complete redesign and get rid of the tables once and for all.
Design is illusion.
Well, maybe not all of it, but it's a big part of design that I had never really thought about before. In trying to get designs to work and look good I've toyed with some little illusions here and at Cosmodemonic Designs -- mainly attempting to simulate 3-dimensionality. What's on top, and what's on the bottom? So, optical illusions in general are my next major research topic. I'm sick of the metaphor of a web "page" and trying to expand my thinking. Last night I dreamed that I was making a site that was like a landscape, with a river flowing through the middle that you could follow along the banks.
Maybe I should take a break.
So anyway, check out the almonds page and see the new paradigm of Motion-Sickness Inspiring Webdesign™. Are you ready for the future? Warning: Ants may crawl around text-box. Seriously, if you're prone to seizures (and try to avoid them) you should probably ignore the links in this paragraph. Except this one.