Comments on: Geek Help Wanted: The missing sidebar

By: Deckard

Deckard — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:44:59 +0000

hm, sorry for the double comment – it’s very strange: i’ve send the first comment with Opera 8.5 but it was only viewable if i checked it with Opera (with Firefox and IE the last post was still number 22!) so i decided to send again – thought it’s an Opera-bug -, but this time with Firefox and so that double-comment.

very strange indeed: with IE i’m still not able to see my posts!

By: Deckard

Deckard — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:03:42 +0000

Dear John,

You wrote: “Iâ€™ve been willing to accept that the brad logo looks shitty on Windows (a .png issue).”, but i think You shouldn’t accept that! ;)

here’s a solution, a tiny javascript-based png-fix for IE: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/index.htm

i hope You can fix the logo with it :)

bye, Deck

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:04:01 +0000

This helpful collection of web design links popped up on digg.com

http://digg.com/design/75HelpfulWebDesignResources

http://www.cameronolthuis.com/2006/01/75-helpful-web-design-resources/

Might come in handy.

By: John August

John August — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:45:10 +0000

Don --

I can't try the fix until I'm nearby a PC upon which to test it. I have your fix filed away until that opportunity arises.

By: Don

Don — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 03:55:42 +0000

So what gives John? I gave you the fix a couple of weeks ago … you are still broken in IE 6 (margins are off) and brad is still missing. Did you see the fix?

By: viktor

viktor — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:30:25 +0000

The fix even works with IE5. Kuddos to the community!

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:49:47 +0000

Eleanor,

I am the systems administrator for a household of three teenagers. We run XP pro, XP home, and NT. Firefox works great on all of them.

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

By: Mr Abrasive

Mr Abrasive — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:01:16 +0000

eleanor, the pc i’m using is xp and i’m fully foxed up. why wouldn’t it work on your pc? have you tried it, or is it that when you try to change over, a little dialogue box pops up from microsoft trying to scare you back into using their browser. if that’s what it is, ignore it. your pc will work fine with firefox, unless there’s something particularly odd about it.

By: Eleanor

Eleanor — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:48:07 +0000

Help, About IE = yep, version 6. Thanks for that!

Last I heard my pc wasn't overly compatible with Firefox - I'm on XP home, or I'd have decamped already. sigh :-)

By: Rick Dooling

Rick Dooling — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:31:04 +0000

I like FireFox, too, but you can’t assume it’s anywhere near the dominant browser. That distinction belongs to IE6 at the moment (60% of users, or more, see the W3 disclaimer), and not because people are “stuck with it.” For most, it’s all they know or want.

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

As for Mac, it’s looking like about 3.6% of users, versus roughly 90% using some version of Windows.

A sad but true testament to the power of Microsoft’s marketing muscle.

rpd

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:47:32 +0000

Yeah, for IE 6 users, the brad logo is not there as John says, but the sidebar is back. (Eleanor, you can check what IE version you using at Help, Properties)

Thanks, John, thought you didn't want us to visit the Artful Writer! ;)