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Last updated on March 5th, 2018 at 01:33 pm
Any problems with the new site? List all problems here, and if you can’t (due to other problems) please send an email with the subject line “problems”.
All problems will be dealt with once I return from Tuesday’s Bulletin Christmas lunch. And recover from resultant cranial problems.
- Posted by ccs178 (Chris) on 2004 12 14 at 04:23 AM • permalink
There’s an RSS feed already, just above the hit counter. It’s in XML, which most readers can handle.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2004 12 14 at 04:30 AM • permalink
The site looks fine in Firefox (newest version, whatever that is) at higher screen resolutions (above 1024). Here at work, where our crap-box displays at 800*600, the text appears under the left sidebar.
It appears to be a problem with screen resolutions, or at least that’s the problem I’m having, and it appears to be a problem only in Firefox.
In IE, the site looks fine at any resolution.
Posted by Ryne McClaren on 2004 12 14 at 05:27 AM • permalink
You have a wonderful site. The only detectable problem that I can see is that you haven’t blogrolled my web site, www.LibertarianLeanings.com Once you’ve done that your site will be perfect! Perfect!
Posted by Tom Bowler on 2004 12 14 at 06:04 AM • permalink
Not sure if this is a site problem, a problem with my PC, or a PICNIC* problem . . . links provided by other commenters open another IE6 window OK, but such windows remain stubbornly blank. I can copy the shortcut into another IE window and view the link that way. I’ve not yet tried link-clicking in Firefox, at home . . .
The site looks great and functions properly otherwise.
*Oh . . . PICNIC in this case stands for “Problem In Chair, Not In Computer”.
The RSS feed works fine, but I’m with Nate on the other deal. FireFox 1.0.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2004 12 14 at 09:13 AM • permalink
I had problems registering from my home machine( xp, norton firewall) but no problems from my work machine (win98se, server firewall)
Posted by Just Another Bloody Lawyer on 2004 12 14 at 10:10 AM • permalink
same problem with the posts below the left side-bar. using IE something and the latest opera.
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2004 12 14 at 10:47 AM • permalink
I use an older PC at home for accessing the web so perhaps it’s me, but here is what I’m seeing.. not problems actually because I can read and post with no probs.
What I see:
– 4 blank, grey screens before main body of blog appears (where blog starts)
I’m using:
– IE6
– resolution 800×600
– Win98As I said, no real problems because once I scroll past the grey screens at top (4 page scrolls), I can read and post fine. But, the old site had no blank screens at top.
Posted by CJosephson on 2004 12 14 at 12:55 PM • permalink
Lew: I had copied Tim’s blog list from his old site, but I hadn’t updated it recently I guess. Anyway, all your favorite blogs are back in Tim’s links.
Everyone: okay, I broke down and put all the web pages into a simple table. I tested it in IE 6, Foxfire 1, and Opera 7.2. The table columns are in percentage widths, so if you still can’t see the page I suggest you consider having your computer exorcised by a Jesuit priest. Pea soup optional.
Posted by Andrea Harris on 2004 12 14 at 01:00 PM • permalink
Honest, guys, I squeezed my browser windows down to about in inch square and I could still see both columns.
I’m still marveling. What was so bad about tables exactly? CSS sucks.
Posted by Andrea Harris on 2004 12 14 at 01:02 PM • permalink
it’s a miracle!! working good for me with opera now. btw i like how the links open in a new window . das ist gut ja?! ja!
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2004 12 14 at 01:22 PM • permalink
I did notice that if you squeeze the window very small, eventually you get that horizontal scrollbar thing. But scrolling is fun, no?
Posted by Andrea Harris on 2004 12 14 at 01:25 PM • permalink
Argh. Just noticed the gray background color on the side menu ends before the side menu links do. Grr…
Posted by Andrea Harris on 2004 12 14 at 01:32 PM • permalink
And now there’s a post calendar jutting out from the side menu and into the posts column.
Aside from that (and the gray background color) everything looks smashing!
Posted by Ryne McClaren on 2004 12 14 at 01:49 PM • permalink
How do you do that? I can’t get my calendar to move no matter how much I squish the browser window. Maybe I’ll just break down and change my site resolution.
Posted by Andrea Harris on 2004 12 14 at 02:01 PM • permalink
Oof. Okay, I have checked it at four browser settings: 800×600—I see what you mean, the images are a bit large and do crowd to the very edge of the menu; 1024×768—what I use, so that is the standard (because I am ADMIN, bwahahahahaha!); 1280×768—squished and distorted, why does this setting exist on my computer?; and 1280×1024—everything seemed okay in a microscopic kind of way. I have a 17-inch monitor. So most people should be able to read the site more or less. I will probably set up a pda-friendly page soon, though, as you won’t see much of anything on your teensy screens, you rich people with your fancy color cell phone tvs soon I will make them pay soon I will have my revenge garble gar grr grah rl’yeh cthulhu fthagn ngaaa i�! i�!….
Posted by Andrea Harris on 2004 12 14 at 02:08 PM • permalink
Hey! Why is the text all the way up at the top of the page all of a sudden?!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2004 12 14 at 02:37 PM • permalink
- Posted by Andrea Harris on 2004 12 14 at 03:39 PM • permalink
Andrea, I’m with you—there is absolutely nothing wrong with tables except that they don’t appeal to the purist geeks. Hacker geeks like myself love them, especially since HTML 4 allowed the “percent of screen” option.
It’s one of the reasons I don’t worship Berners-Lee. CSS had to be invented because Timmie Boy designed a markup language that would *force* the style of display he liked, and make *impossible* the set of conventions invented and refined by printers since Gutenberg for ease of reading. Effim.
IE5, Firefox 1, Opera 7.50 all look fine.
Regards,
Ric Locke
Huzzah! The post calendar no longer juts, extends or protrudes. It’s right where it belongs, and all is right in the world.
Posted by Ryne McClaren on 2004 12 14 at 04:17 PM • permalink
It was jutting in Firefox 1.0, btw.
Posted by Ryne McClaren on 2004 12 14 at 04:18 PM • permalink
Looks fine at 1680x 1050 with Firefox and IE6, except for one oddity. After a blockquote in a post the subsequent text in the post is smaller than the rest of the plain text on the page.
Posted by Kieran Lyons on 2004 12 14 at 04:27 PM • permalink
Yeah I noticed that too. There are still many evil CSS kinks to be ironed out but I shall conquer the beast!
Posted by Andrea Harris on 2004 12 14 at 05:04 PM • permalink
The easy solution around the after blockquote text thing would be to make the text in the blockquote the same size as normal text in the post. However, if you want it smaller, then that’s another matter, but I may have a solution…
I had a problem with text wanting to centre itself after a <blockquote> tag on my blog, but putting this in my stylesheet appears to have fixed it:
body {
text-align: left;
}.content p {
font-family: Trebuchet MS;
text-align: left;
}.content br {
font-family: Trebuchet MS;
text-align: left;
}BR {
font-family: Trebuchet MS;
text-align: left;
}Just a thought…
The RSS feed doesn’t work in Sharpreader, still. Perhaps this link from the feed validator will be useful in debugging?
=darwin
There are two things with the rss feed: the descriptions include entity-referenced tags. I don’t know if it’s part of the standard, but most other rss item descriptions don’t include any tags. This may be a cause of some problems for some readers. They don’t display in Opera’s reader (7.54).
The other is the time. The feed pubdates are listed as GMT, but the times aren’t really GMT. I’d guess that the feed pubdates are 5 hours ahead of Tim’s time zone. That works for Florida, but not Australia. (If I know what I’m talking about, that is.)
Posted by Brian O’Connell on 2004 12 15 at 12:48 AM • permalink
I registered and wrote out a comment, but immediately lost that comment because I wasn’t yet logged in. Couldn’t get back my stunning prose by hitting “Back”.
If it’s possible, you could avert this sort of thing by not showing or somehow disabling the Comments box until someone’s logged in.
Site looks great, though!
Posted by littlebeartoe on 2004 12 15 at 03:43 AM • permalink
On IE 6.0 with 800×600 screen, I still get the scrollbar at the bottom. Other than that, it works.
Posted by Bill Peschel on 2004 12 15 at 04:31 AM • permalink
- Posted by Andrea Harris on 2004 12 15 at 03:25 PM • permalink
I no longer see the 4 pages of grey screens prior to the main body of the blog. Now I see the main body of the blog where it should be, right at the top.
No more grey screens.It looks fine to me now.
Thanks!
(I’m accessing the site via the same bookmark I used when I saw the grey screens.)
Oh, I had no problems registering as others have reported.
Posted by CJosephson on 2004 12 15 at 10:27 PM • permalink
Page 1 of 1 pages
I don’t know if anyone else has this problem, or if it’s just me, but for some reason all of Tim’s posts are located below the left sidebar. This means I have to scroll down below the sidebar to the bottom of the page in order to see the posts.