Oh dear. Australians. What can you do with them? *
Linky link link if the video doesn’t play
*that they haven’t already done with themselves
And the one with the beard? I work with him. Take pity on me.
distressedI take it that all the shouting and honking of horns outside means that England did okay in the footie?
( Spoilers, not for the football... )
cheerfulJust received an especially badly wrtten piece of spam. The opening line was: “How are you doing with the entire member of your family?
What? Does that mean that the all but one members of my family are in some way not ‘entire’? Eeek.
worriedVia ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
snapesbabe
Steve’s Past lives
1525 BC: Roman politician
1539 AD: A pirate
1833 AD: A priest
Um, Roman politician seven hundred years before Rome was founded?
cheerfulVia lonemagpie
( Someone I had to look up on Wikipedia... )
sillyBeen so busy today I didn’t even notice that Opera 9 has been released.
Strange party…
Continuing from my last post, I discovered that both IE7 and IE6 were behaving badly and that I needed to feed different CSS to these browsers than to Opera, Firefox, etc.
But IE7 has rendered most of the CSS hacks useless. The normal solution is to use Conditional Comments to include an additional stylesheet. But that wasn’t an option as I wasn’t prepared to get into the whole hassle of learning how to change the Live Journal HTML.
I thought I had a solution. Use the IE specific CSS expressions (basically small pieces of JavaScript embedded inside CSS properties) to feed different values to IE.
top: 2px;
top: expression(26 + "px");It’s nasty, it’s not valid CSS, it will no doubt break in some browser or other, but it seemed to work when testing locally.
Live Journal wouldn’t have any of it, their CSSproxy said:
/* suspect CSS: potential scripting: expression */
So for now, I’m using the Owen Hack:
div.title { top: 26px; }
head:first-child+body div.title {top: 2px;}Which may or may not get broken as IE continues to improve Which doesn’t work in IE7 because between whenever I last checked and the current beta they improved its support for the more exotic selectors without fixing the many bugs in its handling of basic things like floats and margins. 
annoyedThere’s a mirror of this blog on Live Journal (Or for LJ readers – there’s a mirror of this blog off Live Journal).
This evening I decided to make the LJ mirror look more like the real thing. I took a look at the LJ templating and styleing system (and the related documentation, or lack of) and decided that life was just too short. So I picked a style that looked somewhat like what I wanted (Flexible Squares) and then wrote a stylesheet to do the rest.
Some of the things that came out of this exercise are quite interesting and may be folded back into the main site design.
But, and there was bound to be a but, IE isn’t playing ball. There’s stonking huge gap between the title and subtitle in IE (at least in IE7b2, I’ll check IE6 at work tomorrow). Bugger.
tiredLove and Monsters – instant reaction, no spoilers
That was a very odd episode. I’m not quite sure it worked but I couldn’t help but love it none the less.
Oh, and I was right. Basically, it was the novel Who Killed Kennedy (notice the name? Hmmm.) being played for laughs.
More later.
Great big spoiler for Doctor Who Read the rest of this very true thing…
curious