Cascading Style Sheets are really weird

So here I was, sitting around and thinking about formatted classes for my paragraphs. Now the result is quite pleasing, but has some side effects. But see for yourself … Messed up CSS As you can see, the browser is reusing the background-image URL from the element within the element, even though the element initially had none. Even defining putting an background-image: none; into the class doesn’t get me anywhere.The weird thing is only Firefox is displaying it this messed up (not so weird when you think about how IE 6 treats standards). So if any of you CSS wiz’ got a suggestion, I’m listening 😄 ...

August 16, 2014 · 1 min · 117 words · christian

Blog is back!

As you can see, the blog is finally back! I haven’t been visiting the blog on a daily basis (actually, I haven’t been here for some time), so it apparently took me ten days to figure that the wp_posts table of my wordpress installation was marked as crashed. To repair that, I had to take down the MySQL instance and use myisamchk on the .MYI file. Once again, it’s back now, only one draft has disappeared into thin air (well, that ain’t so bad), but that’s a minor loss. ...

September 30, 2010 · 1 min · 142 words · christian

New Theme

Well, since it’s yet another new year (oh, Happy new year! by the way ..), I decided to drop the old crybook and switch over to iNove, which I think looks quite good with a few additions. If anyone finds something that ain’t working or looks just wrong, tell me please.

January 4, 2009 · 1 min · 51 words · christian