Ex Bibliotheca

The life and times of Zack Weinberg.

Wednesday, 16 January 2002

# 9 PM

MTYWTKAIC has turned into a morass of HTML problems, so I'm going to put it aside for awhile.

The toilet broke. The landlord wouldn't let me fix it myself and bill them for the parts, and then the plumber he sent wouldn't believe me when I told him what was wrong. Grumble.

At work, I continue to fix problems that were fixed two years ago in upstream GCC.

# 12 PM

son of the living dead css

Discovered that using Mozilla's "text zoom" feature makes the link box look bad, because it doesn't resize with the text. Unfortunately, the obvious fix (use sizes in ems) doesn't work either. An em in the link box isn't the same size as an em in the content, which makes relative positioning a real pain. And they don't seem to scale right. I could still get the text to leak outside the yellow background.

Am writing up an explanation of what I was talking about in the previous entry: More Than You Wanted To Know About Inverted Commas. (Not complete yet.)