Comments on: Gripes about blogging

By: Roy

Roy — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:36:18 +0000

You can set what type of window your comment box appears in, full page or pop-up, I’ve changed mine to full page as of now….thanks Grandad

By: Kirk M

Kirk M — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:09:00 +0000

Well, you must have done something right because according to W3C and the Firefox Web Developer toolbar. you are 100% valid; HTML, CSS and Java.

Congratulations! Pull yourself a pint.

I’m not valid and I render properly in all three main browsers and my feeds. PPphhhppttt!!

By: M Buckley

M Buckley — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:29:45 +0000

Another tip might be to open a Blogger account and just post a link now and again there. That way you have access to the Blogger system by signing in with your user name and it’s also useful for thinking laterally.

By: Grandad

Grandad — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:41:43 +0000

Baino - WE? Do you mean IE? Maybe you have a weird Oz version of Firefox? If so, can I have it please?

By: Baino

Baino — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:19:31 +0000

Well you know how talented I am in the technosphere but I’ve never had a problem with Blogspot and I use Firefox all the time. WE just crashes and freezes.

By: Grandad

Grandad — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:07:05 +0000

B3N - Welcome back to the land of the half-living

Don’t blame EmptyHead - I worked it out all by my clever little self!

Sixty - A fellow sufferer?!

Kirk - Now you’re showing off! I’ll leave that box ticked because I hate pop-ups. I’ll stick with “Open in a new Tab”. And people should worry about validation. If Blogspot were written properly, I would,’t have problems….?

Dalif - I have that extension. But I refuse to use it unless I have to. FF can always cut the mustard - it’s the coders that can’t.

Brainf - I have to try that out. I must clear some disk space!!!

Natalie - Firefox is a browser that works properly, unlike that heap of steaming sh*t called Internet Explorer. Once you use it, you’ll never bother with the hairdressers again….

By: Natalie

Natalie — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:20:56 +0000

I have no &^% clue….not even sure I know how to blog anymore after reading all these comments, I have never even heard of Firefox, SeaMonkey blah blah blah, feel a bit out of my depth today sniff sniff, too much highlighter at the hairdersser last week…?

By: Brianf

Brianf — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:09:56 +0000

I use Firefox’s big brother called SeaMonkey. I love that it is more configurable than Firefox yet also allows for all the extensions.

By: Dalif

Dalif — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:45:53 +0000

Of course, there’s always the really useful IE Tab extension for firefox. I recently signed up for something we call digital signature here. It’s a semi-official thing, where your personal details are put into some encrypted thingymajig, and then you can use that one login for all the public services websites, like changing names, death/birth certificates, weddings, changing adresses and lots of other useless shite. In true form for the Public System, the whole shebang only worked in IE. So IE tab was installed, and firefox took over yet another service on my box.

That should fix the problem, if you get tired of the open in new tab deal. Granted, though, I use the open in new tab all the time. I just have the IE tab extension in the severe cases, where FF just can’t cut the mustard.

By: Kirk M

Kirk M — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:34:47 +0000

Hey Grandad,

Go into your Firefox options and under the content tab, click on the “advance” button in the top section and see if the top check box is checked (”move or resizing windows). If it is…un-check it and the pop up comment window should work correctly. Worked for me anyway.

I believe that that pop up comment window is an option that the blog owner can set since some of the blogger blogs throw up a whole new page displaying previous comments on the left and your comment box on the right rather than the tiny comment window.

Blogger obviously codes their sites for IE…

Oh, and forget about validation. Never pays to worry about it anyway and tends to cause a rash. Unless you use WP “as is” right out of the box, a W3C validated theme “as is” right out of the box and absolutely nothing else, you’ll have errors. Does it render correctly in the 3 main browsers? Yeah? Good enough then!

No matter how I try I’m still loaded with validation errors most caused by things in the sidebar as well as anything that just isn’t plain xhtml text. Suffice it to say that if it renders and operates correctly in IE 7.0, Firefox 2.whatever, Gran Paradiso nightly builds and Opera (w/wo Java), then it’s good enough for me.

For IE 6.0 users…sorry folks. Can’t have everything, especially for that non-compliant dinosaur.

Well then. That looks like a good two cents worth. take care now.