Comments on: Out of Order http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/ Things that Eric A. Meyer, CSS expert, writes about on his personal Web site; it's largely Web standards and Web technology, but also various bits of culture, politics, personal observations, and other miscellaneous stuff Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:30:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Eric Meyer http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-255046 Eric Meyer Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:30:43 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-255046 Elaine: any points to more information on that score? I run a small selection of plugins that I wrote myself and I’d love to make them more robust.

]]> By: Su http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-254756 Su Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:27:30 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-254756 I’ve seen a WP installation spontaneously revert its theme to Kubrick multiple times(dunno if Kubrick specifically, it’s just the only other one that was there). Apparently, “it happens, and we have no idea why.” Great! But anyway, maybe this is something similar.

]]> By: Matt Robin http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-254020 Matt Robin Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:44:22 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-254020 I noticed the error message when I visited yesterday – but I didn’t want to say anything as I assumed you’d be aware of it quite quickly anyway.

Hmm, ‘PHP Failure Preparedness in Markup Structure’….(almost sounds like a chapter from a possible book!) ;)

]]> By: Elaine http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-253778 Elaine Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:49:26 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-253778 IIRC, there’s a way to code WP themes so that there’s a fallback behavior when a plugin isn’t available. That might help with future problems.

]]> By: Els http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-253755 Els Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:15:23 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-253755 Although the navigation wasn’t displayed, I got to the static parts of your site through the search box. That one was there :-)

]]> By: Jordan http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-253751 Jordan Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:05:56 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-253751 What I mean is, can you resize the image itself to fit properly, so you aren’t relying the on the browser to resize it for you? Maybe it’s just me, but browser resized images stick out like a sore thumb to me.

]]> By: Eric Meyer http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-253750 Eric Meyer Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:57:20 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-253750 I don’t know, Marc. Maybe it will increase their desire to acquire the site so they can migrate the whole thing to IIS/ASP/.Net.

Jordan, the image is being resized with CSS, not HTML. This is done to prevent the image from exceeding the width of the sidebar, which is based on ems, not pixels. That’s pretty much always going to be the case, since I don’t use pixels for layout width if I can avoid it.

Kyle, I try to leave all that in the hands of the users’ browsers. If I’m overriding link-state styling in my CSS, that’s something that should get fixed in the improvement work. As for link-state styling being “usability rule #1″, I am not a usability expert, and what usability experts I know tell me varies by expert. And usually varies with what the accessibility experts tell me. So I generally try to stay out of the fight.

]]> By: Kyle http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-253749 Kyle Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:48:14 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-253749 How come your site doesn’t have styles for anchor pseudo-classes (hover, visited, active, etc).

Isn’t that usability rule #1?

]]> By: Jordan http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-253743 Jordan Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:40:50 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-253743 I guess this kinda fits in to the topic of your blog, but it’s been bothering me everytime I visit your site. The ad you have for CSS sculptor is being resized in HTML and looks TERRIBLE. Please resize it properly, it makes your site look really hackish!

]]> By: Marc Benton http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-253692 Marc Benton Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:48:27 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/29/out-of-order/#comment-253692 This might put a wrinkle in your Microsoft offer.

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