Like the layout changes I’ve made? I made them because I didn’t like the way the sidebar got in the way of non-CSS aware browsers. Some of my best friends still use Lynx I figured I ought to move things around some so they wouldn’t have to scroll as far to see the new content. It looks pretty good in IE6 for Windows and Opera 7 for Windows. It sucks in Mozilla 1.2b.
I’ve been using CSS for my layouts for over two years now. I thought I had gotten adequatly competent in it so that these problems would stop occurring. You’d think after a couple of years that the browsers would render a standard in a, well, a standard manner. I don’t have time for this crap!
Oops, sorry about that outburst. I just get fed up with some things. As I understand it, I should be making Mozilla look right and then work around the idiosyncracies of IE and Opera. Why can’t I just put out one design and it work on all browsers. It’s been over two years already!
Okay, okay, I’m calm again. <sigh> Please excuse the mess around here, I have other things to do and I’ll get it straightened out as I can. Thank you for your indulgence.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
