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Being the impatient type (read: stupid), I overdid it a bit yesterday, and with 2 slipped discs I now find myself virtually confined to bed. I am dividing my time between reading Hemingway and tinkering with my blog. I have a low boredom threshold which means I can’t focus on either for any great period of time.

My tinkering, as usual, took me into murky waters and, inevitably into problems with cross-browser compatibility. I like the idea of using little icons to identify what happens when you click on a link, for example a pdf file. This works a treat… until your link spans more than one word and those words occur at a line break. This is actually ok for all browsers except Internet Explorer. What a surprise.

There’s not really a fix which I liked - I don’t want hacks, or IE-only code - so I just put a non-breaking space between the words. Check my previous post for an example. I understand it’s not technically a bug, but wouldn’t it be nice if pages could look the same anywhere? If anyone has a decent solution to this, please let me know.

Firefox 3

I joined in the rush to download the latest Firefox browser, version 3. I am happy with it, but I won’t go on extolling the virtues, there are far more qualified people out there already doing that. Plus the fact that it’s only been a day, so in my opinion it’s too early to pass judgement. I am happy that it’s faster, it looks good and hasn’t crashed yet. Still hogging my memory though, where are those tweaks? apparently this is to be expected. With all the improvements, and all the functions, extra speed, memory will be consumed. I can live with that…

Update: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord