Comments on: A New Theme

By: Paradise Pete

Paradise Pete — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:14:50 +0000

http://browsershots.org/ is a handy tool for checking out pages in other browsers. I don’t currently have a computer running Windows, so I check there from time to time to see if anything extra goofy is going on.

By: Adam Constabaris

Adam Constabaris — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:32:59 +0000

Supporting Atom 1.0 in Wordpress is as simple, these days, as installing a plugin: http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/wordpress-atom-1.0/

If you want to take it a step further, there is now also an Atom Publishing Protocol implementation for Wordpress,
thanks to Elias Torres: http://torrez.us/archives/2006/08/21/486/

By: Elliotte Rusty Harold

Elliotte Rusty Harold — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:06:24 +0000

I’ve fixed the problem where the page heading wasn’t showing up in IE. It still looks a little funky there, but I think I can live with the remaining issues. I am curious to know if this page looks OK in IE7 which should have at least somewhat improved CSS support.

By: Elliotte Rusty Harold

Elliotte Rusty Harold — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:44:24 +0000

I think I’ve partially fixed the line height problem that caused overlapping text. Some text may still be cut off, though. What I really need is a way to dynamically adjust the font-size so that it shrinks as necessary to fit the available box. I don’t think CSS offers me that option, though.

By: Elliotte Rusty Harold

Elliotte Rusty Harold — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:35:31 +0000

At this point supporting Atom 1.0 Essentially requires forking WordPress. The WordPress junta are very resistant to all things Atom. Several people have submitted patches for this that have gone nowhere. It’s a miracle there’s Atom 0.3 support in WordPress at all. I use WordPress because the front end has some very nice features (like themability) but the back end is extremely weak.

By: John Cowan

John Cowan — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:27:21 +0000

I’m using the wonderful IE Tab extension for Firefox/Win32, which lets you flipflop between Gecko and IE-in-a-tab with a single click, or (as in this case) open a page using both rendering engines in side-by-side tabs.

There is a serious problem with the IE version: no headline! It just vanishes.

Less significantly, the guillemets before the sidebar items don’t show up in IE, and the long item “Software Development (16)” does not wrap the “(16)’ but sticks out beyond the border.

In both renderers, the “Mokka mit Schlag” banner looks terrible when (as in this post viewed on my screen) it wraps. There is a huge amount of negative leading between the lines, so much that the top of the “B” in “Blogging” is approximately at the x-height of the line above, overlapping the “la” in “Schlag”.

And while you’re dinking with things, can you please enable comment previewing, and get with the program and use Atom 1.0 instead of the obsolete 0.3 version? Thanks.