I've just downloaded firefox, and I like. The fine granularity on cookie control is nice. The fact that it has an integrated pop-up blocker is most excellent. And the fact that it logs javascript errors rather than putting an error message on the screen is great. (I think our new firewall is screwing up javascript (which is mostly just annoying anyway.))
Anyway, which pages were giving the layout problems? I can take a look to see if there are any coding errors.
I have a guess about what's going on. It's common for pages with an external CSS file to load and then "flash" as the CSS takes over the formating. There may be a bug in Firefox in how it deals with the dynamic re-layout. On some slow-to-load DKos pages, if I scroll around before the "flash", some of the blog ads end up in funny places. But if I just let the page load complete, the layout looks normal.
My page loads correctly on a seemingly random basis. The only problem is margin width, not image placement or anything like that. I'll do screen shots to show how it looks loaded "correctly" and "incorrectly." It does have something to do with the amount of material on the page, because the pages with very little text are never a problem and the pages with a lot of text always are. My page appears to be right on the cusp--I could probably solve the problem by setting the number of posts on the page from 8 to 4. If you're not seeing this behavior on your screen with a Windows/Firefox combo it may be other factors--CPU size? screen size? I dunno.
My "quick fix" for the margins is to resize the text; if I hit "Ctrl -1" the margin snaps to its correct position. No guarantee that will hold on the next load, though.
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Anyway, which pages were giving the layout problems? I can take a look to see if there are any coding errors.
- mark 7-29-2004 6:06 am
I have a guess about what's going on. It's common for pages with an external CSS file to load and then "flash" as the CSS takes over the formating. There may be a bug in Firefox in how it deals with the dynamic re-layout. On some slow-to-load DKos pages, if I scroll around before the "flash", some of the blog ads end up in funny places. But if I just let the page load complete, the layout looks normal.
- mark 7-29-2004 10:09 pm [add a comment]
My page loads correctly on a seemingly random basis. The only problem is margin width, not image placement or anything like that. I'll do screen shots to show how it looks loaded "correctly" and "incorrectly." It does have something to do with the amount of material on the page, because the pages with very little text are never a problem and the pages with a lot of text always are. My page appears to be right on the cusp--I could probably solve the problem by setting the number of posts on the page from 8 to 4. If you're not seeing this behavior on your screen with a Windows/Firefox combo it may be other factors--CPU size? screen size? I dunno.
- tom moody 7-29-2004 10:23 pm [add a comment]
My "quick fix" for the margins is to resize the text; if I hit "Ctrl -1" the margin snaps to its correct position. No guarantee that will hold on the next load, though.
- tom moody 7-29-2004 10:27 pm [add a comment]