Re: Sweet16 1.6.1 posted

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Eric Shepherd wrote:
> On 2006-08-01 14:45:21 -0400, "KPR" <krauer@rpmtec.com> said:
>
> > Hey Sheppy.. somethings up with your webserver.. I keep getting source
> > dumps, urls that contain null and missing pictures..
>
>
> Yeah, right after I posted the announcement I realized that something 
> was whacked with the site and reuploaded the whole thing.  While it was 
> re-uploading things were a mess.
>
> Now, there's still a problem that many of the pages dump code instead of 
> displaying properly on IE 6 on Windows.  That's because IE 6 is somewhat 
> lagging in its support for web standards.  I'm looking into fixing it 
> but not all that hard, because it works fine in IE 7, and that's due to 
> ship RSN.

But IE 6 will be in wide use for at least the next year--better make
it work with what exists.

> Anyway, try it again and see if it's any better now.  I'm waiting for an 
> update to the theme I used for the site (I build my site in RapidWeaver 
> using a third-party theme) -- the theme got updated a while back but I 
> didn't get my copy; I've emailed them to request it.
>
> Hopefully that updated theme will fix the problem (the people that made 
> the theme claim their themes are all IE compatible).  If not, I probably 
> won't pursue it farther, in which case I'm sorry for the inconvenience.  
> Life's too short to do battle with Microsoft. :)

Agreed--the _de facto_ standard must be treated as a property of the
universe.

And "new features" should always be avoided like the plague until they
are "old features".  ;-)

-michael

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