Tagged and Bagged: windows
Looks like Microsoft has presented Internet Explorer 7 to the world now. Its on the Automatic Updatelist. Time for web designers to start looking at how their pages will look in it.
If you have a notification that your browser will be updated, read the info on it first. Always read about the updates. Always.
They still have the image align code fucked up.
I haven’t upgraded yet (and unchecked the notification for now, so that the kids won’t install it). i don’t use it anyway, except to test pages in. The kids don’t even use it. Heck, my computer’s booted into Linux 1/2 the time anyways.
I installed it on a test machine up in the attic just to see what all the fuss was about and to test a few sites I have been playing with. It took a while to install and I needed to reboot at least once in the process, but the end result - I came back downstairs pretty quickly to relax and get some work done on Firefox 2.0
Eventually, I will add it to my main machines, but IMHO it’s lot of hoo haaa about nothing.
And a new theme Corey - very nice again. You should aim for a theme a day - or was that your plan already
Ha! James, with all the quality themes out there, I could easily have one for every day, but I’d nt be able to settle on someone’s work “as is”, so I’d have to renovate it. I’m not up to that kind of work. This theme is inviting and pleasant as well as readable (which is the biggest goal), so I think that its time to rest.
Now, its just the components that may receive some tweaking (should tags and archives be put together on the same page? etc).
One thing I would really love to know Corey and I hope you do not mind me asking. The fancy tooltips with the caption box and background. Is this a plugin? I have been trying to sort something out just like this for my site but not had much success as of yet.
Yes, James. This is a plugin. The fancy one that I used on the “Hallowen” theme is a different one as well, which requires a few lines added to the header to pull some javascript libraries.
This one is called Bubble Tooltips and works on title tags for links and images (if you check my photopress gallery, you’ll notice that it works there too - meaning I should entitle every picture). This requires no special code insertions in the header. It “just works”. You may have to change the image that the plugin uses to suit your site’s theme (I’m changing mine again, as the leaf is cropped). The other is nicetitle and its not a plugin, but ti does the same job, except it causes a runtime error box to pop up on IE browsers that have been corrupted a bit, like those in a corporate environment (like the one I’m using right now).
Heh. I just thought of Dolly the sheep from Real Player 8 (visualization) as a tooltip. That would be inappropriate. Send me an email if you can’t find the plugin and want it to look at. I can mail it back to you (or otherwise make it available) some how.
Thanks Corey. I gave it a whirl and yes, just because it was exactly what I was after, it had conflicts with other plugins. Isn’t that always the way…
Every time!
I let it install, mainly because I just don’t use it unless I am doing manual Windows updates. That said, I’m completely unimpressed with it.