Remember when I said I'd used a hack for the first time? That same stylesheet now has four different versions of one property, each using a different hack to single out IE 5 PC, IE 5 Mac, IE 6 PC and compliant browsers like Moz and Safari! There are some others where two values are used, one for IE 5 and one for the rest. The document is still fully valid CSS though.

My copy of the Design of Sites arrived today as well.

kid606 albums duck and dive. The last one was minimal soundscapes. This one is massive hardcore. In many ways it sounds like kid606 does Bogdan, which could be a good thing. It's a bit tired though.

Some bits are undoubtedly 'ardcore (inherently a good thing), but a lot of it is just trotting out the same samples and effects in an effort to press buttons. It sounds he's shouting "I REALLY FUCKING WANT TO MAKE A GREAT FUCKING ALBUM!!!", which is a shame. Some of the tracks are more thoroughly thought out that others, but the overall impression is pretty similar to that of Go Plastic unfortunately.

That said, it's not unlistenable, it's just not as good as it should be/everyone says it is.

My grandfather died on Friday. It was very much a surprise to every one. He was in his eighties, but was doing very well both mentally and physically for somebody of that age. Then, sometime in the night, he just stopped.

He was my paternal grandfather and I've spoken to my Dad a couple of times since then. Yesterday he seemed pretty haggared, but today he seemed OK. I think he may have been thinking about the fact that one of his parents would probably die soon for several years, as must be the way when your parents reach 80. Christ, by the time my Dad's 80, I'll be 55! My Dad is only 49 at the moment.

I'd been the only person I knew with four grandparents for a long time. Louise has only had one since she was 13.

It's kind of strange. It's a similar sensation in a way to the fact that I'm now 25. Nothing feels different, then occasionally I catch myself thinking "I'm 25" or "Leslie's dead". I hadn't seen Leslie for a long time, perhaps ten years. I regret this, but my Dad put it into focus when he said that we probably all regret not seeing him that one last time.

My sympathies go to Vanessa, his second wife. They celebrated their fortieth anniversary earlier this year. They were still both pretty active and enjoying life. Now she is alone, living in a world of things she shared with him for so long. It must be terribly hard. It seems that it might be easier to give up than to go on alone, especially when you too are perhaps just counting out the days. Not that I think Vanessa is. She's a very loving person and she has a good few children, grandchildren and step-grandchildren to attend to, amongst other things.

I also kind of wonder how my paternal grandmother must feel about it. She hasn't been married to this man for more than forty years, but still, his life and hers were always attached through their children. It must be sobering to hear that your old adversary is dead.

They just vanished! Took me ages to work it out.

Applies to 5 and 6 on Windows. May apply to others.

Well, I've been using it for a couple of hours now and Virtual PC is already making testing so much easier. I'm confident that installing it will improve the quality of my work significantly.

Now that I can actually test properly on IE 5 instead of just happening by a copy every once in a while, I've used my first CSS hack. A hack hides a property from an older browser, IE 5 in my case. You set the property to the old browser version and then use a hack to hide a second setting of the property. Simple. Ugly, IMHO. But I found one that's really very simple. The simplified box model hack preys on IE 5's lack of compatibility with escape characters in selector names. Old versions of Opera fall fowl of it too, but I'm not supporting those because they're below my usage threshold.

For some good reading on CSS hacks, see the hacks page on the CSS Discuss wiki.

← previous page, next page →

Choose another page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113 or return to the most recent entries.

Last updated at 15:53, Tuesday August 12th, 2008. All times are shown in 24-hour clock format and are BST.

Rate my journal on bloghop.com: