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Jon B. - Nov 19, 2005 7:52:26 am PST #5644 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

CSS is cool and all, but I don't get why tables are considered "old fashioned".


Theodosia - Nov 19, 2005 8:53:49 am PST #5645 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Is there any superduper easy way to make screen captures from Quicktime 7?


Jessica - Nov 19, 2005 8:57:37 am PST #5646 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

If you have QT Pro, you can just choose "Export"-->"Movie to Picture"


P.M. Marc - Nov 19, 2005 11:11:43 am PST #5647 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

CSS is cool and all, but I don't get why tables are considered "old fashioned".

  • lead to bloated markup
  • crap for text readers and accessibility in general
  • PITA for redesigns
  • bad for document flow
  • degrade like ass on toast
  • the W3C says so


§ ita § - Nov 19, 2005 5:43:05 pm PST #5648 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yeah, I've found that initially doing the positional CSS is a bitch, but once it's done, it's pretty sweet.

Thanks for that page, Ginger -- it's confirmed that the float is less of a cheat than I'd thought, and I'm going to re-float the nav panels on the left and the right -- my main problem was that the middle column was wrapping around the left one.


Jon B. - Nov 19, 2005 7:03:13 pm PST #5649 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

About that Netflix class action settlement mentioned in Press -- FAQ Wife got an email from Netflix about it, so hopefully it's well known.


Theodosia - Nov 20, 2005 3:48:13 am PST #5650 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Thanks for the Quicktime advice -- I got the screen cap I needed. I was looking under Save As, when I needed Export instead. ::sigh::


Jessica - Nov 20, 2005 5:25:03 am PST #5651 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

(Originally posted in BBaBB, but it's happening on more than one website, so clearly a browser issue.)

Last night before I went to bed, everything looked completely normal here, but this morning, quoted text is appearing in regular font instead of monospace. It's like Firefox is getting the t blockquote part, but ignoring the t tt

Any ideas? I'm on Firefox 1.0.7/Tiger 10.4.2, and I haven't deliberately changed any settings since last night, when it was working fine.


tommyrot - Nov 20, 2005 5:59:42 am PST #5652 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Your cat probably walked on your keyboard.

Although if you don't have a cat, the odds of this diagnosis being correct is somewhat less.

Um, have you restarted Firefox?

ION, any advantage to switching to Firefox from Mozilla? For some reason I seem to like Firefox more these days, but I can't come up with any concrete reasons why....


DCJensen - Nov 20, 2005 6:48:47 am PST #5653 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 3 rocks. [link]