Then again, the question about double bandwidth is, in this case, probably better left unanswered…

I’m not sure which image frightens me more at this point.

No joke.

The page rendering going from 1.0.7 — 1.5 is just so much different for standard code. That’s my issue. If it was tabled-up, CSS-hacked, font-tagged code, that would be one thing.

Seriously—somebody try to use javascript to move or resise an element that contains a child element with a background image and padding. For the love of Pete, it screws up your whole page, littering element fragments everywhere!

Can’t wait for 1.5.1, but the reality is: lotsa people will be using 1.5.

BTW, Mike: The day TurboTax decided that DRM was more important than their customers, I switched to TaxCut. My father put TurboTax on his PC, only to find that it wrote low-level code to the reserved sectors on his hard disk (no software does this but disk utilities like GoBack, and viruses).

End result for many people was unbootable computers, and/or the inability to completely remove TurboTax. My dad was one of those people. I tried to convince him not to install it after reading up on the subject, but that “free after rebate” software was just too golden.

This was a major outroar about 2 years back… sorry for the geeky link but ExtremeTech covered the “sector 33” part well: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1152025,00.asp

Anyway, not sure what TurboTax for Mac is like, but I personally would rather give HR Block my business since there is no DRM at all. Sadly, it’s the older folk who won’t know any better.

Christmas is upon us…..and you promised one every month…..

Jemaleddin: Oh yes, Danni definitely needs to gain some weight, but she looked pretty damn good on that Survivor reunion show. As opposed to Stephanie who looked, ummmm, well, let’s just say she looked better without the makeup, the home perm, and the overly dramatic shaved eyebrows. I wouldn’t peg Danni for the full-on Playmate Of The Month spread, but just one of those trademark “hey, this person’s a celebrity, here she is with very little on” deals.

Phillipe: Ok, regarding the Firefox bugs, nobody ever did get to the bottom of the overflow/sidebar issue, but seeing as the code was valid, the rules were followed, and it worked in every other browser including all previous versions of Firefox, I’m not willing to put the blame on my code at this point. This site used a very standard “float one column, use a margin on the other” layout and something about the new handling of overflow caused that not to work anymore. The only reason it was not noticeable on many other sites is that most people probably don’t have the overflow property in their layouts. Soooo… after getting enough complaints from people using Deer Park and other FF beta, I just modified my layout so that everything is floated. That seemed to fix the symptoms, but clearly not the disease. So then FF 1.5 comes out and someone on OS X notices that every single page on my site with over about 200 comments shows up as completely blank. Not only that, but if you try to drag the scrollbar down, you actually freeze up the entire browser. I’ve made a reduced test-case here. The “culprit” here is apparently that if you apply an overflow-x css property to any really long div (like one with 200 comments in it), all hell breaks loose. The only solution is to put an underscore before the css property (or use * HTML) to hide it from Firefox, but hey that’s another error for the console. :)

The syntax of values is specified separately for each property, but in any case, values are built from identifiers, strings, numbers, lengths, percentages, URIs, colors, angles, times, and frequencies.

A user agent must ignore a declaration with an invalid property name or an invalid value. Every CSS2 property has its own syntactic and semantic restrictions on the values it accepts.

In other words, Firefox 1.5 is doing things it shouldn’t do, and is not following the W3C specifications.

Xylescope is indeed excellent — I purchased my copy just yesterday, in fact, after using the trial first. Very, very blissful tool!