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Daily Archives: Thursday, 31 October 2002
Internet Explorer Troubles Again
It turns out that people using IE 5.x or 6.0 couldn’t see my pumpkin image. I think I now know what the bug is in Internet Explorer.
There should be an image on the left of this text positioned using the align=“left” attribute. I think this makes IE render the image on the layer with z-index: 1, i.e the background, instead of the containing block which has z-index: 3. To prove it, I’m repeating the image below without the align attribute. So apologies to those with correctly behaving browsers for the double image. Of course Internet Explorer didn’t render the fixed ghosts correctly either!
I’ve not managed to find this documented anywhere!
Fix found!: A user of my theme found a cure for the problem. If you add the style attribute
position:relative
to the object (it also happens to divs) that is hidden, it will reappear in it’s correct location.
Release Fever
I’ve had to do 7 releases this week! And there may be another one tomorrow. It’s more than a little bit crazy! I seem to have spent most of this week managing code rather than producing or correcting it.
Ho hum…
The Gaean Trilogy
I’ve started reading the Gaean Trilogy by John Varley. This must be at least the fourth time. I’m currently on the first of the trilogy — Titan. This series of books is a must for any Science Fiction/Fantasy fan. Truly awesome story. I’ll try to write more when I’ve finished the first one.
