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March 20, 2007More on Alphecca and IE 7Thanks to all of you for your comments and emails and to Perpster for the screen shot. It's obvious that Internet Explorer, v7, is much more fussy then previous versions or other browsers. Starting with the previous post today, I'm slightly changing how I show quotations. This is more in keeping with how I see (from the source code) Instapundit and others doing it. Maybe it will solve the problem, maybe not. The alternative is to put quotes into a table -- a rather messy affair, and time consuming -- or switch to different software for Alphecca. The latter is something I've already thought about since I'm sick of deleting spam every morning. I'm not nuts about the editor in WordPress but since I'm using it on Colony and it installs easily, I might make the change. That would be the third software change for Alphecca. . . Comments
I haven't looked at your HTML, but a simple way of dealing with quoted text would be to simply use the blockquote tag, possibly with an italics tag inside that, like so: Blah blah blah lorem ipsem etc yadda yadda yadda and so on and so forth I think there is enough text here now to wrap and take more than one line Posted by: Rick C at March 20, 2007 10:29 AMI'll check your site with IE7/Vista later today. I didn't bring my laptop in to work today. Posted by: Rick C at March 20, 2007 10:29 AMRick, That's what I've been doing all along and IE 7 apparently doesn't like it when spread out through multiple paragraphs, which Movable Type outputs automatically. Posted by: Jeff Soyer at March 20, 2007 10:35 AMIt's nice to see what your site looks like; I have always used Firefox, and I wasn't getting any graphics at all on your site until you adjusted the code. Posted by: BobG at March 20, 2007 10:54 AMHi Jeff: Well, FWIW I see plenty of other sites that don't have this problem with IE, including ones that do long multi-paragraphs block quotes. Take a look at Kim du Toit's site, for an example of a page that works just fine in IE7. I'm not sure exactly what he's doing (well, he uses WordPress or Expression Engine, but I think that shouldn't matter as such.) Posted by: Rick C at March 20, 2007 02:26 PMWordPress creates it's own strange tags in the editor, and then converts everything for the final html. As I've said, the problem is that my version of MT inserts paragraphs automatically unless I run everything together, which is what I did with the last post. If I switch to WordPress (which I use on two of my other sites) I suspect that all the problems would disappear. I'd have to convert a very large database unless I simply start a new one. It would be a very big deal -- a lot of work on my end so we'll see. . . Posted by: Jeff Soyer at March 20, 2007 03:13 PMthe comment input form disappears. Your comments are welcome. You don't need to enter a URL and you don't need a "valid" email address, either. Note though that MT Blacklist is installed to flag suspiciously spam-like strings. Unfortunately, because of the bastard spammers, the strings "google.com" and "yahoo.com" (even in your email address) are currently banned as well. So are strings such as "cialis" (a common spam) which rules out words such as "socialism". Try putting a hyphan in a word like that. By Golly, you're reading an archived post. Click Here to head to the main page and read current stuff...Into science fiction? Check out my group blog novel, Colony: Alchibah. See the reader's guide there for first-timer tips. |
