On a separate issue, I hate going into IE because it reminds me, despite how much I prefer Firefox in other respects, how much faster IE is than Firefox. Is this normal, or is there something I can adjust to get FF up to speed?
Big stop just to renew your license to companion. Can I use companion as a verb?
Wash ,'Ariel'
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brenda m - Sep 10, 2005 11:48:44 am PDT #4457 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
P.M. Marc - Sep 10, 2005 11:51:24 am PDT #4458 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Brenda, what platform are you on? I've always found FF to be far faster, but I do have to close it from time to time for optimal performance in OSX, which I don't remember having to do on XP. (The Mac version is a lot buggier, in my experience, than the Windows one. Which annoys me, as I'm not using my XP box much at the moment, and do all my browsing on Fredlet.)
Allyson - Sep 10, 2005 11:51:55 am PDT #4459 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
oh! thanks, Plei! It'll take me awhile, I'm really very slow-going on this stuff.
brenda m - Sep 10, 2005 11:52:49 am PDT #4460 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
XP home. Closing it from time to time hasn't seemed to affect it.
amych - Sep 10, 2005 11:56:18 am PDT #4461 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Brenda, because IE has its nasty tentacles embedded in the operating system, the program launches faster (and convinces people that it's faster), but once it's launched, it's slower. Opera is faster than either, on Windows. Other geekery here: [link]
brenda m - Sep 10, 2005 12:00:14 pm PDT #4462 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Nuh-uh. It's actually faster loading pages, etc. I may try out Opera at some point, though.
Jon B. - Sep 10, 2005 12:02:29 pm PDT #4463 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Allyson -- You've got a bunch of t table tags without any corresponding t /table tags (I count seven). It's almost as though you're using the t table tags as paragraph breaks. Get rid of all of them! That would probably cause some browsers to create columns where you don't want them.
Allyson - Sep 10, 2005 12:26:00 pm PDT #4464 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Thanks so much, Jon!
I don't know what most tags do, at all. Got rid of 'em.
Now I gotta make the text not stretch to the edges. And add my email addie and make sure the title goes back to the front page.
And then I'm going to go throw up.
It's sort of sad that I've never gotten any better at this, given that coding up a simple page is the sort of knowledge people o' my generation tend to see as simple as dialing a phone.
Consuela - Sep 10, 2005 12:27:04 pm PDT #4465 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The best way to learn coding is to steal the code of pages you like. I stole most of my code from Maayan, who's a very clean designer. I'm not in any way good, but I've learned a bit.
Jon B. - Sep 10, 2005 1:00:10 pm PDT #4466 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
No problemo, Allyson. By the way, without the table tags, you also want to get rid of the tr, td, /tr and /td tags. They're only used within tables.
Oh, I just noticed that you took out the word "table", but left in the rest of the tag. You need to get rid of the whole thing, i.e. the entire t BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="30" COLS="0" WIDTH="80%"