Category Archives: Browsers

Improving on a WordPress Theme

May 15, 2006 – 4:38 pm

I picked the fspring WordPress theme by Fredrik Fahlstad for its beauty, not its function. The two main problems I’ve discovered so far with this theme are (1) it’s not very legible, especially on a Mac or for readers without super-sharp vision and (2) the font size is set to an absolute pixel value. So […]

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My Apologies to IE6 Users

January 17, 2006 – 1:02 pm

I hacked away merrily at my Blogger template over the weekend ’til it looked okay in Firefox 1.5 and then published it, figuring I’d check how it looked in other browsers later. Rick, my husband and in-house tester, took a look at it with IE6 and blech. The main page is getting truncated where my […]

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Still Testing Performancing with Firefox 1.5…

December 28, 2005 – 7:08 pm

But it’s strange that it put my second post below my first… maybe because the time (to the closest minute) was the same?

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Firefox 1.5 with Performancing - Better Blogging

December 28, 2005 – 7:07 pm

I finally started using Firefox 1.5 as my default web browser. I installed the Performancing extension that should let me blog from a split-panel in the browser window so I can immediately log pages of interest. I’m hoping this will be a blogging performance boost similar to what happened when I began using Bloglines. Before […]

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Broken IE Box Model

December 9, 2005 – 1:21 pm

You can’t get very far with CSS layouts before confronting IE’s broken box model. I have been trying to glide around it up until now with this website layout, but I can ignore it no longer.
The natural place to start is at Holly Bergevin and John Gallant’s Position Is Everything, a treasure chest of articles […]

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Browser Basics or, What the Heck is Mozilla?

December 9, 2005 – 12:05 pm

If you read a few books on standards-based web design, you’ll learn about how to write CSS that works for Internet Explorer 5 and 6, for Netscape 4.x, and for Netscape 6, maybe 7 and 8 too. Yet I have browsers installed on my computer called Mozilla 5.0/Mozilla 1.7.1 and Firefox 1.0.6 built on Mozilla […]

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