Always making it harder than it has to be
April 4th, 2005The first examples I’ll share of making it more difficult are the following:
- Moving from Los Angeles two weeks after deciding to move and in doing so, using a moving company that had to store the stuff before they could deliver it to Utah.
- As an adjunct to this event, we neglected to think ahead and strap a lot of shit to the truck, Beverly Hillbilly style so we can drag it up to Seattle and then back down to Utah. We lost the wet rack from the Xterra because stuff just wasn’t fitting right.
- Getting a new dog, buying said Xterra shortly thereafter and having to bring the dog to the closing of the purchase of the truck because the dog couldn’t be left in his crate for too long. Schedules need to be kept.
- Deciding that I had to perform the procedure so we could conceive after moving nearly four tons of our crap.
- Thinking that a doctor ordered attendance at a family reunion would “make things better.”
So a couple of weeks ago, we hang some new wallpaper on this site. Everything looks great in most modern browsers. Except Internet Explorer (IE) on Windows. Even on IE Mac the site was looking readable. But that god damn IE was pulling some weird shit. I wanted the navigation to start above the little inverted balloony thing hanging down. I got it to work, but doing so meant not side shadows if you visited with IE.
After finishing all the projects for the weekend, I finally had some time to sit down and try to troubleshoot why the side drop shadows weren’t appearing on IE. After many many many hours of my finest code fu, I tried a little experiment of going opposite. A sort of zig when the zagging wasn’t looking so good. One line of code. Twenty pixels. Done.
People, of IE land, YOU HAVE YOUR SIDE SHADOWS. More than that, is the feeling that I beat IE. To. A. Pulp.
Mostly. o
April 4th, 2005 at 6:00 am
Well it’s looking damn fine. At some point this millenium I too shall slay the IE bitch god and have a redesign to present. For now I take hope from your victory.
April 4th, 2005 at 6:43 am
Since I am only using IE here at work, I thank you for your heroic efforts. When I get home I’ll cruise by in my Firefox getup.
April 4th, 2005 at 8:03 am
just one more reason people shouldn’t use IE. ever. period.
in any case, i’m in awe of your mad skillz. and your stamina.
April 4th, 2005 at 9:18 am
but what is your secret browser master?
April 4th, 2005 at 9:21 am
And this is why YOU ROCK. “My finest code fu …” I am in awe.
April 4th, 2005 at 9:58 am
beware - the darkside is more powerful that you can possibly imagine! Once you step down that path - your ass belongs to Gates!
April 4th, 2005 at 10:05 am
I hate IE. Something always fucks up with that POS.
April 4th, 2005 at 11:04 am
Thank you, Jon. The balloony things are wonderful!
April 4th, 2005 at 11:31 am
Perform the procedure so you could conceive? Is that what you told your parents so they wouldn’t know you’d had sex?
April 4th, 2005 at 11:32 am
I love it! The redesign (new wallpaper, whatevah) looks great!
Now can you help me workaround the damn network security so I can google mail at work????
April 4th, 2005 at 12:37 pm
I’ve had a few tussles with different browsers. They are damned tough opponents when they want to be. I like the shadows, especially knowing how they were hard won.
April 4th, 2005 at 1:51 pm
I am loving the balloney things.
April 4th, 2005 at 4:26 pm
Oh the nights I’ve sat here saying I refuse to be beat by a machine/piece of software/small child/stubborn animal, just praying for that golden moment of victory.
April 4th, 2005 at 4:41 pm
you have the cutest little kid, i swear. thanks for convening the procedure and making her. and for marrying a hot chic who *knows how to write!*
April 4th, 2005 at 7:27 pm
wait…what side shadows? (kidding, people. KIDDING.)
April 5th, 2005 at 7:22 am
What is a wet rack?
April 5th, 2005 at 11:18 am
How do you do those side shadows. my css fu is weak. I have much to learn.
April 5th, 2005 at 2:43 pm
looks awesome!
April 6th, 2005 at 2:11 am
CSS Drop shadows:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssdrop2/
(deep man)
April 6th, 2005 at 11:27 am
i wish i knew code fu cause nunchakas are cool.
April 7th, 2005 at 2:38 pm
ditto on code fu. awesome.