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October 19, 2007

State of Blog: partially bustulated

I got an email from a regular reader earlier on today, with a screen capture of the blog, showing me that the page layout had broken when viewed in Firefox. I tried looking at the blog in Opera and IE and saw the same thing. But when I view it in Firefox, it looks normal.

What does it look like for you, gentle reader, and what web browser are you using?

Posted by Nicholas at October 19, 2007 03:45 PM
Comments
Bustulated in IE6, fine in FFox 2.0.0.8. My blog is the same way, for the same browsers. Looks great in FFox and IE7, but complete crap in IE6. I have given up correcting anything for IE6 though. Surely it's legacy at this point. =) Posted by: Chris Taylor at October 19, 2007 05:04 PM
The concern is that the sudden busted appearance really is sudden: it was working last night for the reader who first reported the issue and was broken this morning. I made no changes (really . . . nothing changed except that I added a single post over the reported elapsed time), but now the blog doesn't display correctly in Opera and IE. When I first looked at the main page after the issue was reported, it was broken in all three browsers, but after a refresh in Firefox, it was working there properly. It's still broken in the other two browsers, though. I am, as they say, stumped. Posted by: Nicholas at October 19, 2007 06:17 PM
I wonder if this may have something to do with the changes you made to the Category template page. Could you have changed something in a frameset file somewhere? Posted by: Jon at October 21, 2007 10:09 AM
For what it is worth - I am looking at it IE7 and its a bust. Posted by: Kateland at October 21, 2007 10:35 AM
I wonder if this may have something to do with the changes you made to the Category template page.
No, I don't think so. I just backed out those changes, and it hasn't fixed the problem. I didn't make changes to any other template file or the CSS, so returning the Category template to its pre-bustulated condition should have undone the damage. But it hasn't. I'm even more stumped now. Posted by: Nicholas at October 22, 2007 08:36 AM
It's going to take some time to do, but did you try rebuilding/refreshing the entire blog in MT? Posted by: Jon at October 22, 2007 08:42 AM
Yeah, I probably should. Expect service to extremely slow on bolditalic.com for the next hour or two, while it grinds through the whole site. Posted by: Nicholas at October 22, 2007 09:18 AM


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