New stuff, same old problems

I’ve added a couple of plugins to the blog to display music and books that I’m enjoying at the moment. Over there, on the sidebar, down a bit, below the categories and links. (Scrobbles and Now Reading plugins created by Rob Miller.)

Depending on which browser you use you may notice one of two things - FireFox users will notice that both of the new sections suffer from the random single-pixel transparent lines that crop up here and there on the sidebar. Still no clue what causes this. [Update] - FireFox 1.5 fixes this problem, I must update my home version.

And IE users won’t see any cover pics for the books. That’s ‘cos, even in IE7b2, the display was totally screwed up. Too late on a Sunday to dissect the CSS (and let’s face it with IE there’s not much chance of a happy ending anyway), so I gave up and applied an IE only stylesheet to hide the images. Blah. [Update] - Mac IE doesn’t use conditional comments and hence shows the images, incorrectly, but really, Mac IE?

[Update] - As Paul points out in the comments Safari is inserting a large chunk of empty space under each book. According to browser cam this happens in Safari 1.2, 1.3 and 2.0 but not in Konqueror 4.3.