by the Night Writer
I lovingly rebuilt my sidebars Thursday night to feature my blogrolls and other site information and it all looked really spiffy…on Firefox, which is my web browser of choice.
At times, however, I only have access to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, or “Internet Exploder” as I call it given it’s susceptibility to bugs and aggravating quirks, and on IE the sidebars look like a blind man in a dark room at midnight trying to find a black cat that may not be there (to repeat a line I heard David Feherty use recently). I don’t know why this is happening, but I’ll try to find out and fix it.
UPDATE: I think I figured out what the problem was with displaying the sidebars in IE. I looked at the last line of code in the text box for the MOB blogroll and there was an extra /div marker. I took that out, opened IE, and — Woot – sidebars restored!
i dont know what it is with IE, but it doesnt like blogspot or wordpress.
its my prefered browser, but only because its the one i know, and i’m too lazy to get used firefox.
yup,on FF now, and it works good.
I read blogs on FF because I use the sidebar reader but I gotta say, FF has gotten a lot less stable with each new update for me. It quits on me several times a day now. IE used to be more stable but the last update (which seems extremely security conscious) now refuses all kinds of flash and dynamic content or simply blows up when it encounters it. I would say they are about equal for me in stability, they just trip on different things.
Margaret, since you can see the sidebars, did you like the selection under “On the Nightstand”?
Gino – When I first downloaded FF it took me all of five minutes to learn to use it and see how much better it is than IE. Plus there are lots of neat plug-ins for additional functionality. The one I really like and use the most is “Cool Iris” that allows you to open a link within a post or article simply by hovering over it. The link opens right on the page you’re on (no new tab or window) and unlike similar tools you see the linked page in full size within the box, not as a thumbnail which is too hard on my eyes. I wish I could install FF on my work computer, but the company firewall prevents it.
I so prefer Firefox.
i like the new look; but, what it really needs on the title bar is a picture of you, wearing a fedora with an overcoat slung over your shoulder, maybe standing in front of some coffee shop with a neon sign glaring in the background. Or, whatever kind of picture you’d put on the jacket cover of your first published book.