References

Uncategorized Thursday, December 9th, 2004

 

It’s important to cite one’s references, so I shall point out that the idea for the new touch-ups on grapefruit came from Mimicking Magazines at Standardice, which had a whole bunch of interesting CSS things.

Jackson has gone to Bali, Matthew has gone to Perth. And the streets around here get busier and busier thanks to near-round-the-clock Christmas shopping at Southland. I feel I must side with Jess on this one — Bah, humbug.

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5 Responses to “References”


  1. Tom
    December 10th, 2004 at 10:44 am

    Bah. This is the danger of doing things when my brother’s taken his laptop away. The new lists look horrible in IE. Should be easy to fix though. Even PCs need a bit of tweaking it seems. Ah well.


  2. Tom
    December 13th, 2004 at 9:36 pm

    I don’t know why I bother writing these notes, but anyhow — I’ve gotten the new list working better on PCs now, both in IE and Firefox. Bizarrely, if I were to list the browsers in order of how sweet the new index style looks on each of them, it’d go:

    1. Mac browsers
    2. IE
    3. PC Firefox

      For some reason the picture and stripe don’t line up nicely in PC Firefox (or in IE, but I was able to send some IE specific stylesheet info to it, hence it looks better). I think it’s something to do with differences between the font Trebuchet MS on Mac and PC. Or something. I’m a bit flummoxed. But it looks alright.

      I see my waffling powers have not deserted me.

  3. hayko
    December 15th, 2004 at 11:51 am

    Oh no, what DID you you do!? The front page of GF looks horrible now on PC Firefoxes. Perhaps because you put them so miserably below everything else.

    I didn’t even want to visit it again today… shrug


  4. Tom
    December 16th, 2004 at 3:26 pm

    Really? I’m at work on my PC Firefox and it looks very nice, just a slight non-symmetry with the picture and the bar.

    Of curiosity though — do you have the Trebuchet MS font? All the computers I’ve ever seen have it, but if you don’t it might explain the crumminess. Would you mind sending me a screenshot?

    I’d be very unhappy if Grapefruit scared you off with its ugliness.


  5. Tom
    December 20th, 2004 at 12:10 pm

    Turns out Hayko was not looking at the most recent style, he had to refresh more.

    He did point out though that text always looks cooler on Macs than PCs. There is a technique that puts flash text in place of normal text, but I can’t be bothered implementing it.

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