FYI, the site is doing that weird thing where it won’t rebuild pages. Ugh. Comments will probably not work for a little while.
Update: Okay, I’ve resolved the issue for now. The problem was an apparant issue with the use of the MTRegex tag in one of the PHP Juice comments. I’ve modified the comment, but am going to check with Brad Choate (regular expression Jedi master) to see what the problem actually was. More details later.
Non-Update: Never did quite figure out what happened. Brad had thought that the problem was in the MT Macros code that I have employed on the site rather than the MTRegex code. Whatever it was, a word of wisdom: if your site is taking forever to build, before going through and rebuilding the site from scratch, try to figure out what might have changed recently (added comments, changed markup, new plugin). It might just save you a few hours of downtime.
Is this working now? It looks better than yesterday!
Hey K, have you looked at your site in IE? Hugemongous fonts dude… weird…
Nevermind, I’m a moron
… IE settings… doh!
Ah, the joys of relative font sizing.
In passing, though, I’m using font-size: 100% rather than font-size: small; in order to work around an annoying off-by-one bug in IE with stylesheets. IE5 and 6(!) both interpret font-size: small; to be 12pt, whereas every other browser in the world interprets it at 10pt. I was using the box-model hack for a while to work around this until I realized that many people (Pilgrim, Zeldman, Bowman, etc.) were using percentages for font sizes.
Just to let you know: You are using acronyms the wrong way. Please read the article at evolt.org http://www.evolt.org/article/HTML_is_not_an_acronym/17/35750/index.html and fix it.
I don’t use acronym tags at all, but the sheer grammar nazism of that evolt link makes me want to include a random “not-really-an-acronym” generator on my site. Just cause.
If I was blind, and used a screenreader, i would learn to recognize that “huhtuhemel” meant HTML and “double-u slash ooh” meant without. I would not expect that everyone else would instead write a tag, then the full word, then the abbreviation, then the closing tag – thats stupid. Just write the full word in the first place instead.
Admittedly, this can be automated for more obvious ones – but dang. Accessibility is one thing. Bending over backwards to be pedantic is another.
Yes, I know I am “wrong” if right is to be politically correct and caring. See, I don’t care. If you are effectively blind, adapt. Don’t ask everyone else to start acting like they are wearing blindfolds. So nanny nanny boo boo.
Its not only for accessibility Ryan, Google likes it
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Anne, Ask Ken my thoughts on doing things in order to better serve google. I don’t have time to issue a proper rant about that at the moment.
As I said before, I know I am “wrong” in the netiquette sense, and I am all for accessibility in general – but at a certain point I freak out. Usually it’s cause I’m cranky.