Site Information: September 2003 Archives
The Spherewide Short Story Symposium got a mention on an MSNBC page yesterday called Blogspotting. That's pretty nifty, although I haven't seen any hits coming in from it.
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.
No, this isn't a political post about being sick and tired of Democrats or Palestinians or France or the UN... I'm literally sick and tired. I think I've got a head cold or something, and I'm doped up on Extra Strength Tylenol Flu, so I'm drowsy to boot. Oh, and I've got a ton of work to do today, so I can't even go home and sleep.
I feel like I've got lots of insightful things to say, but my brain is apparently clogged with snot. Mmm. Sorry, kinda gross.
Anyway, if you're looking for something to read, and you're sick and tired of politics and pandering punditry, may I recommend perusing some of my Short Fiction? Oh, and you can hit the tip jar if you feel compassionate enough to help offset my staggering bandwidth costs, or if you want to fund my impending Tylenol addiction.
