It appears that the "vanishing text" problem in Internet Explorer is very common with the default Movable Type templates. A great many MT sites have the same symptoms: text disappears and reappears when highlighted, or when the window is scrolled.
I finally fixed it, with some aid from Cypren and the internet (click here for details); the problem appears to have a single source: absolute positioning. Go through your CSS and eliminate every "position: absolute" attribute, and your problem will be solved. It looks like IE doesn't like large floaters.
You'll probably do well to replace the "position: absolute" attributes with "position: relative", and then use tables to lay out your page. Replace every <div id=???> tag with <td id=???> and the appropriate table and rows, and you should be fine. Yes, using tables is cheating, but if IE doesn't want to play nice then there really isn't another option.
I applied the fixes to my comments windows and archives as well, so let's hope I got everything. Let me know if you still see any strange artifacts with IE, or any other browser.
You wrote, "using tables is cheating". That's what a ladder salesman will tell you. But if you need to reach something, and a table's already there, then why not just stand on it? Especially if your ladder doesn't work very well yet.
Weird... text is disappearing more now than it did before!
On the other hand, the other big problem I had - I couldn't highlight your text - seems to be gone, so now I can highlight your text and see it. A bit burdonsome, but at least there's something I can do to see your daily wisdom...
There's more disappearing text? What's your system and browser version?
Anyone else?
Sigh.
On my system (IE 6), I no longer see any drop outs or problem text and can highlight just about anything. I'm glad it wasn't any sort of deep windows issue (other than apparently adherence to a standard, a core MS failing.)
Which is just another reason why Mozilla rules.
The problems seem solved for me. And btw, the only thing mozilla rules at, is taking more CPU and RAM.
Yeah, in my experience Mozilla is pretty slow, but maybe I'm missing something?
YEs, Mozilla seems to bne far too slo.