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Thursday, March 28, 2002IE6 emulates an IE5 display bug when the Transitional DOCTYPE is used. In short, when calculating the width of a table, a CSS box will not be recognized as the container object. This will cause vertical scrolling for tables when their width is specified as a high percentage (ie: 100%).
If you are using my theme, a fix is to change "Transitional" to "Strict" on the first line of the Main template. If you change the Home template as well, this will cause another (minor) issue with Mozilla that I have been unable to resolve, so I suggest leaving it alone it you are not using tables within your stories.
If you find a better fix, please let me know.
Reparations Sought From U.S. Firms for Slavery
No comment.
Smartphone market could spell trouble for Palm/Handspring [PDABuzz.com]
The article is terse, very little detail... but the precept that SmartPhone devices will bring about the end of Palm OS is so obvious that I am forced to place my lower-case palm against my forehead.
The SmartPhone platform seems geared primarily for providing a mobile view into Outlook's data store. Other functionality is limited due to the nature of the device, and therefore secondary. That sounds much like the design philosophy of Palm, the only difference being the target device: Compact Phone vs. Compact PDA.
If my prediction holds true, that the SmartPhone will supplant PDAs for causual users... the market for "classic" Palm devices will shrink drastically.
Palm is following Microsoft's zig when they should have zagged. Or they're following the wrong Microsoft zig. Same difference. See the last four paragraphs of "Fire and Motion" by Joel Spolsky.
G.M. to Revive a Muscle Car Icon: General Motors said it was reviving the Pontiac G.T.O., an American muscle car icon, by modifying a sports coupe it sells in Australia. By Danny Hakim. [New York Times: Business]
They have a picture. It reminded me of Opel's Calibra, which is now the Astra Coupe. The Monaro / GTO looks to be the same car with more power. Being a pessimist at heart, I expect that GM will find a way to screw it up, just like they have every other time an Opel design has been "borrowed."
On a positive note, this is GM's first revival of a muscle car marque on an actual performance car. It may be FWD (bleh), but there's a V8 under that hood!
PS: Ford impresses me with their ability to build genuine World Cars, which began with the Focus.
PPS: I have nothing else good to say about Ford. I entered this world as a Mopar man, detoured into F-Body land for a while, and now I plan to be burried in a BMW. "The Ultimate Driving Machine" is not a hollow marketing slogan.
Cell World Awaits 500-Lb. Gorilla: "Microsoft, which proudly points out that various American cell-phone service providers will soon carry Windows-powered devices on their shelves, recently said it plans to capture 25 percent of the cell-phone market by next year." [Wired via PocketPCHow2 Log]
So Many Phones, So Little Need: Here is a run down of all the new handsets announced at CTIA. [Wired via PocketPCHow2 Log]
I would buy a Motorola 280i if it were available today. It's a very small tri-band GSM phone with GPRS and Bluetooth, which are the exact qualities that I seek right now (it has other stuff too, like MP3 and J2ME), Unfortunately for Motorola, it isn't due until July. May as well wait for Microsoft's SmartPhone to reach the market.
