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egypturnashToday... I decided to switch to Safari for my web browsing. No real reason. Just a desire for change.
As some sort of sideways result of this, I decided to make a custom Livejournal style. In the new, cryptically-documented S2 system. Marking it up entirely with CSS. One of the attractions of doing this is that having a custom S2 style gives you a way to override people who have gone to an S2 style and chosen to style their comments pages - you can choose not to style your comments pages, then force your own style onto a comments page, and you'll get whatever comments page matches the LJ site style you've picked, complete with all the handy site links. It's not perfect; if you make a comment, then view the discussion from the confirmation page, you get their style and color choice, but it's better than nothing.
(Side note: If you've switched to S2 and would like to have your comments pages return to the site defaults, go here, press the 'Edit Customizations' button, and look for something like "Enable to use the old comment page instead of the newer style specific view" - at least that's what it says under the "Other" tab of the customize page for the S2 version of the 'Generator' style. You'll want to hit the 'Override' button and choose 'yes' beneath it.)
While I was at it, I included some other links on each entry I figured would be useful: edit the entry if it's yours, see the titles of the month's entries, step into the next or last entry by that user... Since I did all the visual effects in CSS, no absolute font sizes are specified. If you run your monitor at a high resolution, like myself, it will be quite readable, as all measurements are in percentages of the base font size. It's not finished, but the core of it works, and I am tired. I believe I shall walk out to Ralph's, since I'm out of Diet Coke, then go to bed.
Check it out if you want to: My friends page My journal [ addendum: Looks like ass on IE/Mac. I can't say I really care; it works on Safari and Mozilla strains, and that's all I use. ]
As some sort of sideways result of this, I decided to make a custom Livejournal style. In the new, cryptically-documented S2 system. Marking it up entirely with CSS. One of the attractions of doing this is that having a custom S2 style gives you a way to override people who have gone to an S2 style and chosen to style their comments pages - you can choose not to style your comments pages, then force your own style onto a comments page, and you'll get whatever comments page matches the LJ site style you've picked, complete with all the handy site links. It's not perfect; if you make a comment, then view the discussion from the confirmation page, you get their style and color choice, but it's better than nothing.
(Side note: If you've switched to S2 and would like to have your comments pages return to the site defaults, go here, press the 'Edit Customizations' button, and look for something like "Enable to use the old comment page instead of the newer style specific view" - at least that's what it says under the "Other" tab of the customize page for the S2 version of the 'Generator' style. You'll want to hit the 'Override' button and choose 'yes' beneath it.)
While I was at it, I included some other links on each entry I figured would be useful: edit the entry if it's yours, see the titles of the month's entries, step into the next or last entry by that user... Since I did all the visual effects in CSS, no absolute font sizes are specified. If you run your monitor at a high resolution, like myself, it will be quite readable, as all measurements are in percentages of the base font size. It's not finished, but the core of it works, and I am tired. I believe I shall walk out to Ralph's, since I'm out of Diet Coke, then go to bed.
Check it out if you want to: My friends page My journal [ addendum: Looks like ass on IE/Mac. I can't say I really care; it works on Safari and Mozilla strains, and that's all I use. ]
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Date: 2003-08-10 05:39 am (UTC)I use IE 6.0 on WinXP. Which probably means I should update. XD
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Date: 2003-08-10 05:46 am (UTC)I don't know if I'm going to bother making it work in IE at all. I don't even have IE for Mac on my machine any more. It's really slow and ugly.
Oh, no tables - it's all done with div and span. I really with you could bottom-align a div or a span to its container...
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Date: 2003-08-10 05:56 am (UTC)Have mercy with us poor, deprived windows users... :D
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Date: 2003-08-10 09:10 am (UTC)<div style='position: relative;'><p style='position: absolute; bottom: 0;'>...</p></div>if that (http://markpasc.org/lj/200308/positioning.html)'s what you mean, though you have to make sure to keep everything else out of the way. Somehow.no subject
Date: 2003-08-10 08:36 am (UTC)My mate has used Safari for a long time and is generally satisfied with it (it's certainly worth the price). I'd get off IE if I could as it crashes all the time.
-T'
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Date: 2003-08-10 11:41 am (UTC)On a random note, I don't like Safari :P Mostly because its not a tabbed browser, and I work in Mozilla (PC) and Firebird (Mac) respectively and I'm very used to the tabs.
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