Technical Matters
Dean
Tons of you have written to let me know that the new site doesn't look right in Safari. Those of you who sent screen shots were most helpful. We're working on it now, although I'm told that other Mac browsers don't have this problem so you might want to try Internet Explorer or Firefox or one of those--but with any luck it'll be fixed tonight.
Also, we're working on fixing some weirdness with the comment registration. It works but it's formatted oddly. If you're having trouble registering, just fill out the information and press your Enter key.
Also, we're working on fixing some weirdness with the comment registration. It works but it's formatted oddly. If you're having trouble registering, just fill out the information and press your Enter key.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Wha' hoppen??
I just logged onto Dean's World from one of my business computers, which is equipped with a Dell flatscreen superwide monitor.
Now everything on the screen appears like what your website designer was really thinking about.
Imagine reading all this stuff on a 21" monitor, appearing full width. Then you'll know what I'm talk about.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Also looks fairly good (and looks pretty much the same) in Opera 7.51 and Mozilla 1.3.1 for Linux.
And I agree with Arnold, it's looking better and better, and it's starting to look like it damn well ought to.
I didn't see any comments disappear. Are you sure you just aren't reading the wrong thread Paul?
Are you sure that there were comments that disappeared?
This absolutely should never happen, and I've never had any reports before of data loss (which were known not to have happened from user error, e.g. forgetting to actually hit "publish"). This is worrisome, because the most important rule is that data shall never be lost.
You're quite right about the format (etc) mutating quickly, though — I'm working rather hard to get Dean's site perfect.
Sorry, my mistake. Somehow I got mixed up— got this thread confused with the "New Fonts" thread, down below.
And the site is indeed looking damn good. Fascinating to watch it develop, almost by the minute.
No problem. You just had me worried for a minute there. :-)
Seriously, there's nothing more important about a computer program than it never loses data. Thanks for bringing the possible problem to my attention, though.
I'd rather false alarms than unnoticed failures.
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.