BLogger doesn't feel like updating my site. I've been trying for two days now. I wish it would provide more feedback on what the error was.

Hard to beleive its been so long, again. And my last post was put up twice, I don't remember seeing that before. But them I haven't even been to my wn site in a while so I wouldn't really know. Well for reasons I've long since forgotten I havn't finsihed my moms site yet, geuss I should do that. In other news I finally got my system upgraded: AMD XP 2700 with a geforce FX 5900. Initially I had problems with it locking up in games but that's fixed now, it was just an airflow issue. Splinter Cell and the nvidia demos look great.

OK, I was working on my moms pages which will mostly be image index pages for her various crafts. My original idea was to have a series of divs each containing a thumbnail over the name over an optional description. These divs would then wrap themselves like text to fit the window. This worked in IE5.5, however, this behaviour is not part of the CSS 1 or 2 specs so it does not work in Mozilla. Hopefully this will become part of the CSS 3 spec as the inline-block display property. Until then I'm using the table-cell and table-row properties to get the look I want. I know, I know, this doesn't work properly in IE5.5 and I could use actual tables instead, but this is the way I want to do it right now. At least the code is generated by a script so if I decide to change it I only have to do so in one place.

Oh well, so much for the changes I was planning. I was planning to use SVG for the logo and nav bar, however, Mozilla doesn't have support for gradients yet. I was also going to use XML entities to include common sections of my web pages like the nav bar and footer, sort of like a client side include ;) . Unfortunately Mozilla and IE 5.5, the only two browsers I've tested it with, don't seem to support this. So instead of working on my site I will just have to finish working on my mom's site.

What is it with the people that wrote the SVG conformance test suite? From what I understand the object tag is the official way to include SVG and other types of files into a web page. So why do they use the embed tag? Doing that means Mozilla won't display the image since the embed tag is for plugins. Well actually it's supposed to be replace by the object tag. I suppose this could be related to the image/svg+xml bug in mozilla which prevents files served with that mime type from being redered as graphics. They say this should be fixed but I'm still seeing it with an SVG enabled 1.4a build. Back to reading the SVG spec and playing with my web pages.

Hard to beleive that it's been 8 months since my last post. I'm currently trying out w.bloggar for posting to this blog. So far so good.


The next thing on my todo list is to download the Amaya web/CSS/SVG editor for use in updating my site. One of the main things I intend to do is change my main logo to an SVG image, of course I'll still need a regular image for those that can't view the SVG image. If SVG makes it into the 1.4 build of Mozilla then I might also convert my menu to SVG.