Cat on a blue shed roof

[triskellian]

Which title is utterly irrelevant to the contents of this post, but there he was, being a cat on a blue shed roof, and how could I resist? (No, I don't know why our shed roof is blue, either.)

I made some good progress last night on my new project: improving my CSS skills. I've been using stylesheets for text formatting for years, and never quite got around to learning how to do anything else with them, but after a couple of hours of reading and playing, I'm most of the way towards the layout I'm planning. It's pretty cool to look at an HTML file containing nothing but text and structural markup, and then look at the way that file is displayed, with colours and boxes and fonts ;-)

Comments

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Bugger! What ate that reply I'd carefully just typed?

I haven't noticed the Reply title changing size (unless you mean the piece of text just above this "post a reply" box I'm currently typing in), but certainly nothing else changes size, which is rather unpleasant of them.

Mozilla's minimum font size option works (which is a godsend when reading GamesDomain at work), as does its Text Zoom option (also known as ctrl + ).

A quick look at the stylesheet reveals such nastiness as:

body { background-color: #ffffff;
       margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px;
       margin-right: 0px;
       font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;
       font-size: 11px;
       color: #8f8f8f;
}

Mmm. Yes, sizing the fonts in pixels. That's a good idea. Not!

[wimble.livejournal.com]

After much hunting around, I can neatly give up researching this problem, as I've found out why this is a problem:

Component is less than 4 weeks old, and it's announcement does ask for feedback.