Using IE6.026 on Win2K ... The text doesn't show up until I've scrolled below the links on the left side.
I've said it before--I'm not a tech-oriented person, am pretty much a slave to the boilerplate Blogger template, and don't see my skill level changing in the near future. This is the first I've heard of this complaint, and can only say I've viewed the site on IE and Firefox, from multiple computers at different locations and never experienced this phenomenon.
Anyone else get these results, and if so, any ideas on something so easy to fix it even I would be capable of doing?
A screen shot may be helpful. It sounds to me like the general problems caused by the difference between IE and Mozilla in the handling of the "float" property. Sometimes you get this when the browser window is too small.
ReplyDeleteI looked at the general construction of the page using DOM inspector, and it looks good to me.
Oops, I just checked. I'm getting in on IE 6 on XP, as well. Let me poke around in that code and see what's up.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I have to "refresh" the page a time or two to get the text to show up. I thought it was just me.
ReplyDeleteIt's probably the width of all the 'main-' styles in the page's CSS code. If I bump them from 700 to 900 pixels, the righthand column goes where it should. But then that neat background image is undersized, so that needs to be redone. That's the easiest fix.
ReplyDeleteYou could also use absolute positioning with the content column, but then it runs off the bottom of the page (past that nice papery background image you have there.) This can be fixed in IE by placing the content column inside a good-old fashion HTML table. But then that introduces all the annoyances associated with tables. IE is also ignoring my CSS 'overflow' property settings.
We know IE is a piece of garbage up through version 6. Anyone here getting the same problems with v7?
It looks perfect with IE7 and WinXP.
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I'm having the same problem, it was fine up until last Friday (5/4) and since then I have to click the links on the left side to view the postings.
ReplyDeleteHah, and here I've been thinking I couldn't read your site because I screwed up my computer!
ReplyDeleteI'm getting it too. Generally it ocurs because something either in your sidebar or in your posts is too wide to exist in the scree side by side.
ReplyDeleteDavid, now it is ok again. Did you do something?
ReplyDeleteNo, I believe it was a temporary Blogger glitch as no one had ever brought it to my attention before.
ReplyDeleteTJH:This can be fixed in IE by placing the content column inside a good-old fashion HTML table. But then that introduces all the annoyances associated with tables.
ReplyDeleteJMHO, but the "annoyances" of HTML tables are far fewer than CSS for main layout. CSS-based layout is fragile, and has far more browser-dependent bugaboos. Tables are stable, and they just work, regardless of what browser is being used.