orphicmusic.com Blog

It’s true – Internet Exploder is a lame browser. It can’t handle padding values in % form – I think it treats them as percentages of its maximum potential width, rather than of the parent element. As long as I had them in my style-sheet, IE was opening my page at a ridiculously large width.

I also discovered that Explorer cares about whitespace where it shouldn’t. This:

<tr><td><a target=”_self” xhref=”http://www.orphicmusic.com/AE/supported.php”> < img xsrc=”http://www.orphicmusic.com/AE/T/AEmenu4.gif” alt=”Supported Artists” border=”0″ /></a></td></tr>

should do the EXACT SAME THING as this:

<tr><td>

<a target=”_self” xhref=”http://www.orphicmusic.com/AE/supported.php”>

< img src=”http://www.orphicmusic.com/AE/T/AEmenu4.gif” alt=”Supported Artists” border=”0″ />

</a>

</td></tr>

But no, the second one would be too easy to read! So, Explorer puts about 3 vertical pixels of space at the bottom of the image, forcing you to use the hard-to-follow first version if you want your page to look good.

Explorer also has bad breath.

On the other hand, I’m so very happy that the world has Gimp. It takes some time to figure out how things work, but it’s !FREE! and you can do a whole lot with it.

This is all fallout from the latest revamp of my Nu Ambient review site.

Oh, in case you’re wondering, Wampage = Rampage + Webpage .