Cassowaries Rant

I can assure you that this site isn’t designed for high resolutions. In fact, it’s designed for low ones. While my screen is 1024×768, I keep my browser window at about 800 pixels wide (because any smaller and websites with tables for layout offen fail). I’ve many times asked myself if I should make my page easier for those poor sods who keep their browser windows at 1024 pixels or whatever wide to read, but I concluded that if they want to punish themselves: so be it.

No, the problem with the calendar overlapping onto the main text is a bug either in my style sheets or, and I fear this my be the case, Microsoft’s interpretation of the specs. Opera and especially Gecko (as used in Mozilla Firebird and Galeon) do a very nice job of rendering it; KHTML as used by Konqueror is respectible. Internet Explorer, on the other hand, has the overlap problem.

If I can fix it, I will. But I probably won’t. Not for a while at least. Until then, I suggest you get Mozilla Firebird or something and keep Internet Explorer around for those evil netbanks &c. which don’t use standard (X)HTML.

(Another bug with IE is its reluctance to do anything with the <abbr /> tag. Which is funny, given that it deals with the (depricated) <acronym> tag perfectly well.