Is it common for something to work in IE but not Firefox?

Very. Depending on your attitude about standards, it's either a bug or a feature, but IE will try to render bad code, while most other browsers will throw up their tiny little hands. On the other hand, there are some convenient styles IE won't pay any attention to, and IE and Firefox render certain kinds of widths differently. In response, I curse a lot.

but IE will try to render bad code, while most other browsers will throw up their tiny little hands.

Ahh. I did know that. It just looked so good in IE, it was hard to tell anything was funky.

There was such an exclamation of dismay around here when we heard the site would have to work in IE6.

anybody else having Facebook issues right now? I can't get to my inbox in Firefox, and IE is telling me that it can't find the page at all. It could be the craptastic work internet, so I thought I'd check.

Facebook has been crappy all day.

Twitter question-- I want to block my nephew temporarily to ask others a question about his Xmas present. If I block him, will he have to re-follow me when I unblock him?

Steph,

what kind of Nokia phone do you have?

The low-end 6086.

I went to this meeting of Army wives last night - it's a group of about 25-30 of us and the woman in charge is responsible for passing out all sort of information via email. Given that she's sending several emails a day, I suggested a listserv (I was thinking Yahoo Groups because I'm familiar with it). Everyone liked the suggestion but someone pointed out that .mil email addresses are unable to receive/participate in listservs.

Does anyone here know if that's true? If it is, is there a way around it? Anything better than Yahoo Groups?

Joe is checking with the military communications people, but this board is my go to tech place.

Steph, I got an "Black Friday" preview email from Apple today, and it looks like the iTouch is gonna be regular price -- the bene is free shipping. So I'd buy at your store.

I suspect that it's either a matter of policy on .mil's part, or at most there could be some kind of mail filter -- there's no technical issue on the list software side.

If there are either policies or filters keeping them from using their official addresses for those purposes, just tell 'em to get a gmail account; if they have that kind of policy, they need to be separating their official and unofficial comms anyway.

amy, I am so with you on the "just get a gmail account". But the wife of the commanding general is one of the big .mil account users and I think the Army actually gave her that account to use for all her quasi-official activities.

Does an email coming from a listserv "look" different than a regular incoming email? I actually googled everything I could think of related to .mil emails not accepting listserv messages but found nothing helpful. Maybe I'll just set one up and test it with Joe's email.

I actually liked all of the women I met last night - and a listserv just seems like the way to do it in 2009 - but I am by far the youngest in the group and everyone else seemed sort of mystified by the idea. I'm now sort of wishing I had kept my mouth shut, but getting so many emails a day (with all the forwarded stuff on top) just offends my sense of organization.