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September 25, 2005

The Love Affair and the Hate Campaign

My love affair with Ruby continues. I wrote a small piece of software to perform numerical integration estimates. I learned that the development process in Ruby generally goes something like this:

• Have a clear idea of what you want to do.
• Have things not go as planned.
• Suspect something in Ruby to have an underlying wart or bit of complexity.
• Slap forehead due to own stupid mistake.
• Repeat.

I'm digging it.

I'm also grooving on a simple Vim plugin I went searching for. I had always wanted the ability to yank lines directly out of a shell buffer in order to be able to manipulate them within Vim. Well, I found exactly what I was looking for here.

It seems every time I wish to change something simple here on this blog of mine that I run into horrible cross-browser compatibility problems. It is silly the shear amount of infrastructure I have to put in to divide the universe into "standards-compliant" and "IE" realms. Today's problem dealt with wanting to finally solve my problem with displaying text within <pre> tags.

When I had originally published this site, I knew that pre data was getting clipped. I left it as a problem to solve on a rainy day. Well, today was rainy and I had just published and entry that I had wished to use a lot of preformatted text within.

The easy fix for Firefox is allow content in the content div to overflow. Sadly, this causes the sidebar on the right side to drop. Although I found this article on dropped div tags to be extremely useful, the JavaScript solutions presented were too much dinging around for me to bear.

I ended up allowing overflow in the standards-based stylesheet and then overriding this later in the IE-specific one. Also in the IE stylesheet pre elements are set to overflow:auto so they will get ugly little scrollbars if they overflow.

One wonders how much of this will be "fixed" in the new version of IE.

Posted by jordanh at September 25, 2005 1:34 PM

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