Breakthrough!
Speaking of feeling good, tonight's sleeplessness finally paid off.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, my blog is now accessable to viewers using Firefox and Netscape. And the general consensus is, was and forever will be that I am a genius!
I finally installed Firefox today (you come up with things to do when you can't sleep) and decided to see if I could figure out the problem I have been neglecting to fix for the longest time.
To my surprise, when I previewed my blog in both Netscape and Mozilla, it looked just fine. The inconsistency between previewing my blog and the actual published result has been bothering me, so what do I do? I look at the source of my previewed blog to see what the difference was.
All I needed to do was change the doctype from
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" >
to
< !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" >
I don't know anything about HTML (I like having the excuse of not having ever taken a single computer class in my life: being self-educated makes me feel smarter) so in essence, I don't really know exactly what I did, but I have an idea.
Either way, the point is that it worked!!! Today has just been my day.
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As a result, however, my blog now looks the way I want it to on Mozilla and Netscape, but weird to me in Internet Explorer. Bah. I need to get with the times and transition to Firefox anyway.
It's like getting a new prescription. The world suddenly looks funky. It's not necessarily a bad thing - just takes a little adjusting too.
Speaking of vision, tonight I might do something crazy like take out my contacts or something. Yeah, I think I'll do that.
posted by Faye @ 12/15/2004 08:22:00 PM
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12/16/2004 11:59:00 AM
Don't worry about firefox or what ever. IE is still more widly used then others. I know of no one out side of BYUH that uses it. In fact I hate it... just alitle.
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Posted by judgewhetten
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12/16/2004 10:09:00 PM
*APPLAUSE*
Anonymous
Congratulations!!! You ARE a genius! Proud of you! Hehehe
Posted by Singapore Girl
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12/18/2004 03:01:00 AM
I think your blog looks fantastic! And would have to concur that you are a genius (I can barely do anything related to comuputers).
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Posted by Lizzy
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12/19/2004 03:09:00 AM
I installed Firefox about week ago and I like it. Sometimes. It takes a really long time for the first window to open for some reason. What do you think so far?
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Posted by lsob
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12/19/2004 09:28:00 PM
Thank you, thank you. It's a good thing I am very modest and won't let all the compliments go to my head. I deserve a prize for that too, I think.
Anonymous
Judge, why do you hate firefox? So far, it serves me fine. I love the pop-up blocker, and how my history and settings were transfered over automatically. I also love the Google search bar. If they had a penny for everytime I've used it in the last few days they would have like 23 cents. That's not bad.
To be honest, though, I haven't really noticed the difference. But you're asking the wrong person. Everyone here keeps saying that IE is crap, and that Netscape is even worse, but well, a browser is a browser. I am not picky.
However, I have to say that I am not completely independant of IE (and doubt my capacity to ever be) because I can't play MSN games on Zone.com on the other browsers. Bah.
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