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Site Updates for 10/12 Posted October 13, 2003 at 12:49 am

I noticed some severe inconsistencies with text rendering across different platforms and browsers. I’ve started correcting those now. I’ve got through the CSS and changed all font-size tags to use relative sizing attributes of smaller or larger per Titus’s recommendation. I was using small, medium, etc. I’m going to look into other methods though. Here’s one I need to try.

Yes, I realize that the Posted by text on this very page is screwed up in IE. It doesn’t handle the absolute positioning properly for my paragraph element so I’m having to look into a fix there too.

I’m not even going to talk about the horrors of IE 5.2 on a Mac. It’s a bloody crime I tell you!

Web development suddenly got a lot more frustrating.

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News section live! Posted October 4, 2003 at 7:54 pm

After what seems like hours of wrestling with CSS positioning I’ve finally got the text for the news headers configured the way I want. The revelation came from reading this article on Stopdesign—which has a gorgeous layout—about how objects with absolute position inherit the boundries of their nearest positioned parent object. An object is positioned in CSS if it has a position value other than static, which is the default value. It turns out my objects were inheriting their relative positions from an object one level higher in my heirarchy than I was expecting, causing odd behavior. The fix was, of course, to alter the appropriate parent objects to have relative positioning.

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