It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think.

River ,'Objects In Space'


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amych - Jan 19, 2005 7:20:33 am PST #9357 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

As opposed to what?

Ems are ideal for accessibility (and would take out the need for smaller and larger styles), but harder to make the page look just right.

Even if you stick with px for the body text, it's a simple matter to make everything else a percentage relative to that.

(Which, looking up-thread, faster typists have already said.)


amych - Jan 19, 2005 7:24:02 am PST #9358 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Have I mentioned lately how much I hate that CSS support across browsers is such a crapshoot?

t hands Plei a soothing tableless layout that has been tested in 10 browsers on 3 OSes


dcp - Jan 20, 2005 2:31:29 pm PST #9359 of 10000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Something a little odd. I just did a refresh of the index page, and the "Firefly Spoilers" thread appeared at the top with a message count but without the number of new messages.


Wolfram - Jan 20, 2005 5:51:48 pm PST #9360 of 10000
Visilurking

I made the same mistake in book club. At some point (threadsuck this thread to see when) all the threads ate some funny code which caused one new post per thread to contain the same number as the previous post. So if there had been no posts in FF spoilers in awhile that would be what caused it to move to the top with no apparent new post. Or something like that.


dcp - Jan 20, 2005 6:02:37 pm PST #9361 of 10000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

There actually was a new (and unread) post, and thus the jump to the top of the thread list was correct, but the usual "# new" part of the description was missing.

eta: Aha! Now I see it. The new post did indeed get the same post number as the previous post, so it was new by date but not by number.


Lee - Jan 22, 2005 6:35:53 am PST #9362 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I'm having a weird thing happen in Bitches. When I first got to the thread, everything after Daniel posted to Wind Sparrow Daniel C. Jensen "Spike's Bitches 21 Gunn Salute" Jan 22, 2005 6:35:57 am PST in red text was also in red. When I wrote up a post saying everything was red text and hit post, so that only my post and the one right before it were on screen, there was no red text. I did some playing around, and when Daniel's post is on the screen, everything on the screen after it is in red. At first, that was a portion of the 30 posts that is my default, because Daniel's was in the middle, but when I marked his post, so that his was on the top of the page, all of the following 29 posts were in red text. Same thing happened when I thread sucked.


Hil R. - Jan 22, 2005 6:40:09 am PST #9363 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Lee, the reason that's happening is that the red text is coming from the red tag in Daniel's post. If that's not on the screen, no red.

However, when I'm looking at it, Daniel's post is the only one in red.


P.M. Marc - Jan 22, 2005 6:41:46 am PST #9364 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Lee, is it fixed now? I wasn't getting bleedthrough on my machine, and I'm too lazy to check on the Mac.


Lee - Jan 22, 2005 6:45:23 am PST #9365 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

and when Daniel's post is on the screen, everything on the screen after it is in red.

Lee, the reason that's happening is that the red text is coming from the red tag in Daniel's post. If that's not on the screen, no red.

Yep. I just stated it in reverse.

Plei, it is fixed now.


DCJensen - Jan 22, 2005 6:55:10 am PST #9366 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.

Funny thing is, I intentionally double checked that I had two t /font tags, and paired the closes with the opens *before* typing in the "Happy Birthday Windsparrow" because of all the problems with that sort of thing. Plus someone else posted after I did and his post wasn't red for me following my post, so I went off to shovel the driveway and didn't check back. I'm using NS 7.02 in OS9

Huh. Weird.