Stuff from all over, ‘cos my mind is a bit scatty at the moment.

New blog, (discovered via TMP) Olduvai George, dreadful paleontological pun but wonderful artwork of ancient mammals. And some les ancient ones, like weasels.

Ever since I started working on the VisitLondon.com web site I’ve been annoyed by how many of the pages display in Opera. The main content section of these pages consist of many visual boxes stacked one atop the other. Some of these boxes are div elements and some are table elements, depending on the nature of their contents (and yes I know the whole thing is wrapped up inside both a layout table and some div soup). In Opera the table elements were displaying two pixels wider than they should have been, breaking up the nice column of equal width boxes.

This week I had time to dig into the CSS I discovered the cause. The style rule table {text-align: left;} is the cause. Easy fix, move that text-align rule to the th and td elements. Anyway, the bug is now documented.

And you know what else? Opera 9, technical preview 1. Yep, bug is fixed already. (Also getting close to passing Acid 2, which would be good as it’s all been Mac and Linux browsers so far.)

Oh, and Firefox has a new version out as well.

A relative of a colleague is playing a Cyberman in the new Doctor Who. The same family also contains the man who played the Stormtrooper who banged his head in Star Wars.

And the rest was memes from sites that are down at the moment…