Archive for July 18th, 2006

First Blood

Posted on in Computer Games, My Life, Sport.

Last night the 2006 Old World Cup started. This, in contrast with the recent rubbish in Germany, is a Blood Bowl tournament played over the web with a few friends. My team, Frankenstein’s Fumblers, played the opening game against the Dwarf Giants.

The Fumblers have a nice mix of muscle, speed and cannon fodder. The Giants have muscle, more muscle and some muscle on the side. The Giants won 2-0.

As the cup is being played as a double elimination tournament this means that I’m not out but I do have an uphill struggle if I’m going to win. My next match will be against the loser of Numinal Comets (elves) vs Veni Vedi Viking (um, Vikings).

Legendary

Posted on in Browsers.

I promised a test case for my latest problem and here it is: Gecko’s stubborn legend.

A few things worth noting:

  1. In reality the yellow background will be a gradiant background image within each box, so I can’t just apply the background to the form.

  2. Opera starts out displaying the upper form as FireFox does. The addition of position: relative (with no top, left, etc.) to the styles for legend magically changes that.

  3. IE7 breaks the * html hack so some further work will be needed to align the legend horizontally without breaking things in any other browser.

  4. Gecko doesn’t seem to apply float or display (except display: none;) to legend elements at all.

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