Everyone already knows about the server downtime when they were trying to break the record blah blah.
The botch I’m talking about is my experience of downloading it this morning and trying it out.
My experience was about 15 minutes…
- 1 minute to download Firefox 3
- 1 minute to install Firefox 3
- 1 minute to find out half of my add-ons don’t work
- 1 minute to try and hack the MaxVersion to work and fail miserably
- 2 minutes to locate a Firefox 2 installer
- 3 minutes to download it from the stupidly slow FTP
- 1 minute to uninstall Firefox 3 and install Firefox 2
- 2 minutes to find out Firefox 2 kept crashing because the Firebug I upgraded to crashes it
- 1 minute to uninstall Firefox 2 and re-install it
- 2 minutes to set it up back to the way I like and restore my previous profile
I think I’ll leave Firefox 3 for a little while to get rid of teething issues.
If you’re reading this on the site as opposed to your normal feed reader, then you’ll notice my brand new shiny theme. If you’re reading it in IE, it will look crap. It works in Firefox, but I have yet to do IE-compatibility – if anyone fancies taking a gander at the code and fixing it for me, please do! I’ve got some minor tweaks to do to it (comments are un-styled at the moment for example), but mostly I’m quite happy with it. If anyone notices anything broken or odd, please do let me know!
Edit: I’ve decided I prefer the way it looks in IE, so I modified the theme so Firefox matches the layout of the IE theme 
I’ve done a little more work on the re-re-vamped Total Carnage site. It’s starting to take shape and look a little more like a real website now. So far, the niceness only works in Firefox as I’m using solid div background colours with an alpha-blended PNG to add highlights. I’m led to believe this technique can be used in Internet Explorer, but I’ve got to look into this still (due to IE’s inability to display alpha-blended PNG images…). The idea of doing things this way is to eventually have a user-configurable colour scheme. I’m basing it on a pasty-orange colour to start with, but I might change that, but of course, doing things this way makes it easier to change the colour scheme.
Under Jon from work’s recommendation, and some research by myself I found out it’s better to use XHTML 1.0 as silly IE doesn’t understand valid XHTML 1.1 properly as it does not accept the application/xhtml-xml content-type header properly. I’m not bothered either way, but I’m making sure it’s valid XHTML and CSS all the way. You might notice that the Ext JS isn’t valid CSS, so I base the “valid CSS” theory on just the CSS I’ve written, which is technically cheating a bit, but I don’t have the time/energy to go through all the Ext JS stylesheets and make them valid CSS.
The whole seperating the content from the design thing is going well nonetheless, and have a look here if you want to see how the site is progressing.
So, as many people do, I’m going to blog about Internet Explorer’s fantastic “Unknown Runtime Error”, even if it’s just to remind my self and rant at how badly designed Internet Explorer is.
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