It's one of those days
Jan. 11th, 2007 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayI just looked out of the window and the rain is going side-ways. Hmm. Methinks that I won't be taking a walk this lunchtime.
My hip was bothering me yesterday and it's bothering me again today. In correcting my gait for the pain yesterday, I was managing to introduce an interesting moment where my knee bent backwards, which is one of the best ways that I know to dislocate it. So today I'm using the walking stick so that I hopefully stop the knee trick :-( I suspect that it's a combination of weather and tiredness causing the problem. Hopefully I'll be back to normal by the weekend so that I can do my shopping trip :-)
I find myself with rather less to say than I thought I had. Huh. Is it too early to start on the chocolate?
The only geeky comment I can think of is to note that I'm starting to look into how I can rework my websites so they don't explode in IE7. Yay. It's looking like conditional comments to serve alternate versions of the CSS file is the way to go now that hacks have been largely disabled. I just need to work out which bugs are still affecting IE7 and need alternative CSS for, and what it actually does properly now. Obviously installing IE7 over my IE6 will make testing for IE6 impossible - does anyone know of websites or, even better, Firefox plugins that will let me view websites in the different generations of IE so that I can see what's going on? Or even just view things in IE7 so that I don't have to overwrite IE6.
My hip was bothering me yesterday and it's bothering me again today. In correcting my gait for the pain yesterday, I was managing to introduce an interesting moment where my knee bent backwards, which is one of the best ways that I know to dislocate it. So today I'm using the walking stick so that I hopefully stop the knee trick :-( I suspect that it's a combination of weather and tiredness causing the problem. Hopefully I'll be back to normal by the weekend so that I can do my shopping trip :-)
I find myself with rather less to say than I thought I had. Huh. Is it too early to start on the chocolate?
The only geeky comment I can think of is to note that I'm starting to look into how I can rework my websites so they don't explode in IE7. Yay. It's looking like conditional comments to serve alternate versions of the CSS file is the way to go now that hacks have been largely disabled. I just need to work out which bugs are still affecting IE7 and need alternative CSS for, and what it actually does properly now. Obviously installing IE7 over my IE6 will make testing for IE6 impossible - does anyone know of websites or, even better, Firefox plugins that will let me view websites in the different generations of IE so that I can see what's going on? Or even just view things in IE7 so that I don't have to overwrite IE6.
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Date: 2007-01-11 12:18 pm (UTC)I know there are Firefox plugins to let you see things in IE, but it just uses the latest version you have. You could always get old versions off oldversion.com, assuming that Windows can cope with you having more than one version of IE installed.
And while you're playing with your website, your green navigation definitely doesn't work on any version of Firefox I have, including the portable version I use at work off a pen drive :)
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Date: 2007-01-11 07:48 pm (UTC)Er, yes. Windows will, of course, let me do things it doesn't want to ;-) I may be asking whether I can see what your IE7 does to my website so that I know how large the problem will be!
I think that I know how to get around some of the problems, it's going to be what needs overriding for IE7 but not IE6 that's going to be interesting :-)
your green navigation definitely doesn't work on any version of Firefox I have,
Hmm, yes, I still haven't worked out why. Which version number of Firefox are you running? I may post a query in one of the web dev forums to see whether anyone else has the same issues so it would be useful to know which version number is breaking. It definitely needs fixing if I'm going to be fiddling with other things!
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Date: 2007-01-11 08:02 pm (UTC)I can look, although you will have to bear in mind this is my computer and it does like to do funny things to websites.
Which version number of Firefox are you running?
It has the same problem in 1.5 and 2.0
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Date: 2007-01-11 09:19 pm (UTC)*gritted teeth* I've noticed!
It has the same problem in 1.5 and 2.0
Thanks, hon. I've posted a query to a forum in hopes that someone can spot whatever is going wrong (or reassure inform me that it's just you...)
Have you had any problems running Firefox 2.0? I heard there were some initial bugs with it so I haven't upgraded yet, but I'm thinking that it would be a good idea. Trusted opinions always help :-)
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Date: 2007-01-11 10:54 pm (UTC):) It especially doesn't like LJ - when they changed the bit at the top for Christmas I couldn't see the link to the message centre at all. Now it's back to being half hidden.
Have you had any problems running Firefox 2.0?
No, although I was convinced I had upgraded here but I don't seem to have managed it. It's on my list of things to do this weekend. I've been using it quite happily off the pen drive at work since New Year and it's fine. I like the way it underlines your spelling as you type.
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Date: 2007-01-12 09:06 am (UTC)Anyway, I think that I now know what needs to be changed to get that green menu working and I'll be playing around at the weekend to sort it all out. And I'll be upgrading Firefox to 2.0 :-) For better testing, obviously.
Then I can get the site sorted out for IE7 and also look at my other websites. Woo! The interesting thing is that the fix I'll probably need to do for the menu in Haven Reviews is something that I'd already implemented for my professional sites. Obviously I changed my mind about how to do that style of menu in the six months between doing Haven Reviews and my portfolio...
Having a spell-checker built in is definitely one of the things that I'm interested in for Firefox. It will probably only be using American spellings, but at least I'll pick up some of the stupider moments before posting them to the world.
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Date: 2007-01-12 12:37 pm (UTC)So you must have been using a version of Firefox older than 1.5 then.
The Firefox spell-checker does only do American, but that's enough to pick up typos. It's entirely possible there's an option somewhere, or someone will write an add-on to do UK english, I just haven't looked.
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Date: 2007-01-12 03:29 pm (UTC)Er, yes, my Firefix is pre-1.5. Can't remember the exact version number, but it's rather older than it should be :-( I keep forgetting to sort out the upgrades - noticed when I was downloading 2.0 last night that they've added an aut-update feature to it! That might be useful for me...
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Date: 2007-01-12 03:34 pm (UTC)My plan for the weekend is shopping, swimming, sticking up a doorbell and posters, backing up my hard drive, installing some programs and making bread and flapjack. Couldn't be more exciting if I tried :)
they've added an aut-update feature to it!
:) I think that was with 1.5.
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Date: 2007-01-11 12:19 pm (UTC)This question clearly makes no sense, as there is no such thing as too early for chocolate. Or too late. Or too anything at all :)
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Date: 2007-01-11 07:49 pm (UTC)*ggg* I resisted earlier, but I am breaking into some Green and Black's tonight!