Bull3t’s Blog

Haven't been posting much lately; too much stuff going on and just haven't had any inspiration, thus having not posted anything. This also means that K2 Explained releases have slowed down a little, but I haven't forgotten them and will be adding a few more articles soon. I am also in the process of creating a new WordPress plugin to check for updates for other plugins using a text file, check my projects page for more information.

I have been tweaking a few things on my blog even though I have not posted. For example the 'Random' button above randomly selects a post from my blog so that you can discover old posts and read up on older subjects. Hopefully a few of my other tweaks (such as the date and mini-navigation at the top of the page) will be added to a K2 Explained article in the near future.

Anyway, we all know that Internet Explorer has a tendency to mess up a web page by not showing it as many other browsers do, but this just takes the piss. When you first arrive on my blog with Internet Explorer, all seems well, but already it has thrown an error about one or more of the object's on my page not supporting some sort of property or method (shown in the status bar). The Recent Readers section on the sidebar (from MyBlogLog) doesn't want to be shown properly, it just has a block of white space with no user images. Internet Explorer also insists that my blog have some sort of pointless white space padding at the very bottom of the page, not an eyesore but still annoying. The text on the page seems to be a lot smaller than it should be and can be hard to read in some places. Lastly, any image that is transparent will show up as grey instead.

Currently I am in the process of creating a website and am having some unexpected issues in Internet Explorer. I am coding it by hand and using Flock to preview the pages and all looks good in Flock, yet Internet Explorer has some weird issues that just aren't acceptable. To start with, the header menu has some unintended white space padding on it's left hand side, making it overlap the sidebar but sits perfectly in Flock. The sidebar itself doesn't stretch the full page in Internet Explorer, but does it Flock. I have a tiling effect for the gallery that I am adding to it, these are div tags, enclosed in a link. These should float next to each other on the same line then automatically drop a line when they cannot fit on the same line anymore, works well until you view it in Internet Explorer; they then seem to overflow into the sidebar, drop down 25% of a line and the link can only be clicked from the text inside the div.

Rather annoying things like this makes you wonder whether making a website in CSS and div tags is really worth all the hassle. You may as well use tables and images.