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Experiment Successful

I asked if presenting my plans to my adoring public would make me more or less likely to live by them. It seems I was motivated by your impatience. Scatterbrain (Soylentred.net's home-grown CMS) has now got a nifty divide between the load-bearing code that chucks out info from the database and the actual HTML with which said info is structured. I can easily change every page on the site in an instant without even looking at the underlying code. Go me.

What's the point of adding functionality without using it? None, so far as I can see. So after a few keystrokes, every page of Soylentred.net is ready to accomodate the new style I call Krimson Kreme. As always, I invite comments (and bug reports) about the new style. Is it nice and does it work?

Users of Opera, Mozilla and other useable browsers (so not Internet Explorer), can still see the old style. It's the alternative stylesheet named 'grey'.

Comments:
Wed, 13th Aug 2003 (13:50)

Your 'out of cheese error' features a 'Soylentred.net' logo juxtaposed on the text. 'tis Ugly.

by stephen
Thu, 14th Aug 2003 (01:51)

That bug is now fixed, though the absence of any 'out of cheese' errors for at least a week will make this difficult to prove. It arose when I switched all the h1 headers to h2, except for the one which has the logo in its place.

by Rory
Tue, 19th Aug 2003 (02:46)

ummmm... hightlighting your txt seems to be impossible in that oh so familiar 'microsoft word is f*cking with the layout of my documents' kinda way. im pretty sure that hightlighting text and moving the mouse down shouldn't highlight the text above instead. but then again i do have 'crazy' ideas and my perception of things can be slightly... different. give it a try though.

by djinn
Tue, 19th Aug 2003 (02:56)

Djinn, the only problem I can think of that you might be having, given your somewhat vague comment, is this. You have clicked at, or near, the beginning of a line of text and dragged the cursor down to the beginning of the next line, causing only the first line to be highlighted.

So two things: CSS has no control over highlighted text. It will come in CSS3, but only with regard to colouring. The style of the site cannot possibly affect your browser's behaviour in this regard (except possibly with some dodgy javascript).

Also, that /is/ the expected behaviour for highlighting text in that manner.

by Rory
Wed, 20th Aug 2003 (01:17)

okay so maybe a little vague yes. try highlighting the link to google for the binary of twelve. i can't seem to do it. i do actually know how to use a mouse and highlight things i just thought you might like to know this as it may mean that the format of your page can make it hard to copy and paste links into the address bar as i was trying to do

by djinn
Wed, 20th Aug 2003 (01:41)

You mean in the other entry? The one with a "Comment on 'Google Calculator'" link directly below it? And therefore not the one with a "Comment on 'Experiment Successful'" link, like the one you clicked? Twice?

Anyway, as I said, it's a bug in Internet Explorer. I'll see if there's a work-around, but for the moment you can keep using a crappy browser that "does what you need" (except simple things like highlighting), and I'll laugh at how inept Microsoft seems to be.

by Rory

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