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.
I was sent a link to a Microsoft KB article which related to IE8’s new standards compatibility mode. When I read through it, I don’t know why or what made me laugh, but I found this quote amusing and just had to make a picture out of it.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 end-users can work around these issues by pressing Emulate IE7 on the menu bar in the browser window. When the Emulate IE7 button is depressed, Web pages will display in Internet Explorer 7 Standards mode.
Oh noes! The Emulate IE7 button is depressed! Must get him some prozac…
Oh how I love IE. I have an “Unspecified error.” On line 1. Really? Wow, that’s a useful error message. Almost as useful as Object expected. And Unknown Runtime Error.
So back in England and working again. Here’s a couple of tech-related links I read about today:
Interesting? Well this is the first IE8-related article I’ve read, so I don’t really know what to make of it yet. I still am vehemently in love with Firefox, so it would take a miracle for IE8 to wow me. As for the bit on C#, just generally a nice little bit of code. I’ve not read through the comments, but I like the idea of C# object initialisers.
I still prefer LAMP though… I love LAMP.
