I love ems. I set values (using hundredths) like 2.15em regularly. It would seem, however, that Opera 9 either calculates this value differently or rounds up the calculated value. I’ve done a bit of testing today, and adjusted a number of heights which weren’t visually aligned to other things. I used the @media and ~ hack to set a smaller length for Opera 9. I’ll have to investigate this further.
Tomorrow is the start of a new Columbia Orchestra season. It’s the first rehearsal. I could not be less prepared either. For the first time I can remember, I am starting a new semester and nothing in my life is changing. I don’t have a new place to live, any new classes, any new books/clothes/shoes for school, or even any new school.
At this time last year I was about to return from East Hampton. I was moving into a new house, one I had never seen, and was about to start searching for a new job. It was exciting. From almost nowhere, I decided I was going to get a job writing webpages, or programming, or both. I wrote up a resume, replied to a few postings, and got a temp job. I was offered a regular position within a week-and-a-half and have been doin’ it since.
As an aside, I believe I’ve come a long way. First, I’ve made many new friends, and have been many new places doing many new things. It has been a lot of fun. I have taken my HTML & CSS from zero-to-sixty, learned a ton of Javascript and Rails, and am now looking into usability, design patterns, graphic design, typography, algorithms and more. And I pick up things very quickly, and hope to get even faster.
But back to the semester starting, I’ve got my usual panic. End of summer. Start of fall. Baseball, hot days, and lazy weekends are all winding down. Football, brisk breezes, and rehearsals all starting. Time for something big and new. I just have to figure out what that is going to be this year.
The Red Sox just swept the Chicago White Sox, outscoring them 46-7 in four games. I’m happy that they distanced themselves from the Yankees, and that their bats heated up before heading into New York. This series, however, was eerily similar to the 5 game series where the Yankees swept the Red Sox last August, so I can’t get particularly excited about it. Chicago deserved better.
Started reading through Advanced DOM Scripting by Jeffrey Sambells. Normally would wait to comment until I got to the end, but I am excited that he mentioned both the scope chain and closures in the first chapter! As my sister would say, “Sweet Lovin!”
So we thought we just had a solution to the IE 6 background-image flicker problem. We were trying the javascript again, but calling it from the CSS. Nope, back to intermittent searches.
