Right: Simon Sarmiento, and others, write that the graphic saying “Helmintholog” is clipped. I know it’s clipped. I clipped it. I did this because, when I didn’t, the site switched to a one-column layout when narrower than about 850px and I wanted people with small screens to understand what it was meant to look like. Somehow I set the width wrong when I did this. It is now fixed. There has to be some way gracefully to degrade the logo on narrow screens, and I think the overflow is quicker, and stranger, than trying to resize the underlying gif. Anyway, it no longer clips, in any browser I have tested, at 1024*whatever.<\/p>\n\n
Mozilla now displays the two books side by side rather than one above the other. Every other browser understands that when you ask it to display one span with “float:left” followed by another span with “float:right” this means that there should be a gap between them. Only Gecko supposes that I mean for them both to be squashed up against the right-hand edge of the box. I wasted some more time trying to get a gecko-only display that would fill the unwanted blank space with the words “eschew mozilla” but it suddenly stopped displaying background colours and graphics when (and only when) I wanted it to show them.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Right: Simon Sarmiento, and others, write that the graphic saying “Helmintholog” is clipped. I know it’s clipped. I clipped it. I did this because, when I didn’t, the site switched to a one-column layout when narrower than about 850px and … Continue reading