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This site is no longer maintained.
My current weblog.
Thursday, March 21, 2002Got Opera installed in an NT VMware session, it is just as non-cooperative as the Linux/PDA version. My onload code isn't switch stylesheets, neither is the onclick version.
There could be a setting somewhere that is messing things up, as Opera seems to have quite a few of such settings. But now I'm just thinking, "Screw Opera." The program itself is cowardly, by default it sends the user-agent of another browser! By default. Hmph.
I have better things to do than fight with a browser that is designed not to respect a web author's intent. For my Zaurus SL-5000D, the default stylesheet is good enough.
Mozilla Display Problems with CSS Theme
Ok, if you will recall, I had three problems with Mozilla and my CSS theme:
- Proper stylesheet wasn't being applied.
- White "gap" between top and bottom coffee mug images.
- Right-side box shows extra "line" above calendar.
I've fixed #1 with some tweaks to the JavaScript. I'm stuck with a FOUC tho, and no way around it if I'm to ensure that non-compliant browsers never see the three-column stylesheet (my intent is to degrade as gracefully as possible in all situations, not encourage people to update their browsers).
It turned out that #3 is the top border image being tiled. The only cure that I've found, which also fixed #2, it to remove my DOCTYPE declaration:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">
Doing so causes some other minor display issues, causing me to hesitate in updating the template. Most I've found work-arounds for in the stylesheets, but the niggling detail is that <HR> no longer respects the size attribute in Mozilla. There's probably a way to take care of that in the stylesheets too, but I haven't figured it out yet...
Dave, via Doc, points to an article from the Online Journalism Review at USC tearing apart Knight Ridder's homogenization of their online properties.
It had been so long since I looked at the Miami Herald site that I hadn't realized that it now has the exact same look-n-feel as the SJ Merc. With the exception of the Merc's technology coverage, which is excellent, I don't go near Knight Ridder properties any more. Too much media power in too few hands.
For local news I have City Link. They used to be "XS Magazine", a hip and tendy rag that was available for free at nearly any major intersection or bookstore in the greater Fort Lauderdale area. Today they are a little less youth-oriented, and a whole lot more hard-hitting on the political front. Especially when it comes to scandals, of which we have no shortage in South Florida. And it's all free.
For broader cover there is the New York Times. There is none higher.
And CNN. Time-Warner sucks, AOL-TW sucks more, but no matter what country I am tuning in from, CNN has never failed me.
