Odd Question
In the post immediately below this one (“THE PULSE on Doctor Fate”), do you see chevrons or black dots before the two indented paragraphs?
In the post immediately below this one (“THE PULSE on Doctor Fate”), do you see chevrons or black dots before the two indented paragraphs?
December 6th, 2007 at 4:48 PM
Black dots.
December 6th, 2007 at 6:13 PM
Chevrons… Definitely chevrons… Or are those the arrows Churchill promised?
December 6th, 2007 at 9:45 PM
yes…
December 6th, 2007 at 11:43 PM
Dots:
http://fate.starocotes.de/images/stevesblog001.png
December 7th, 2007 at 1:51 AM
Stefan: What browser are you using?
December 7th, 2007 at 2:36 AM
I’ve tried IE 7.0 and Firefox 2.0.0.11 and 3.0b1.
Both Firefox version behave the same. In the overview where you can see all entrys but no comments there are chevrons:
http://fate.starocotes.de/images/stevesblog004.png
But in the detail view where you can enter the comments there are dots:
http://fate.starocotes.de/images/stevesblog005.png
IE omits the chevrons in the Overview:
http://fate.starocotes.de/images/stevesblog002.png
But displayes the dots in the detail view:
http://fate.starocotes.de/images/stevesblog003.png
Don’t know if that matters but I use the german version for all my programms and of course the OS (Windows XP) as well.
December 7th, 2007 at 7:46 AM
Chevrons and I use Firefox
December 7th, 2007 at 9:26 AM
no dots no chevrons — IE 7
December 7th, 2007 at 9:48 AM
Mac OSX 10.5, Safari 3.0.4 = Chevrons
December 7th, 2007 at 9:56 AM
Nope – ie7
December 7th, 2007 at 12:15 PM
Chevrons – Firefox on Ubuntu Linux
December 7th, 2007 at 2:13 PM
Chevrons from the computer at work…
December 7th, 2007 at 4:59 PM
In style.css I find
/* Begin Lists
Special stylized non-IE bullets
Do not work in Internet Explorer, which merely default to normal bullets. */
.entry ul li:before {
content: “0BB 020”;
}
(BB is a chevron, 20 a space)
December 7th, 2007 at 5:00 PM
But you probably knew that.
December 7th, 2007 at 5:55 PM
Black dots on Opera 9.00.
December 8th, 2007 at 8:21 AM
Chevrons – using Safari on a Mac.
December 8th, 2007 at 10:28 AM
Neither from the computer at home.
December 8th, 2007 at 10:40 AM
Chevrons, on Firefox.
December 8th, 2007 at 5:38 PM
Chevrons through Opera on Windows.
December 8th, 2007 at 6:12 PM
Chevrons, on Firefox
December 8th, 2007 at 8:24 PM
dots — IE6
December 9th, 2007 at 7:20 AM
Chevrons on Safari and MAC OSX
December 9th, 2007 at 9:25 AM
Now that I’m looking at home, using Opera, I’ve got the chevrons, too.
December 9th, 2007 at 9:27 AM
But when I click on the link and go to the post itself, there are dots with Opera. Hmmmm.
December 9th, 2007 at 3:49 PM
^ Probably results from one rendition being styled as class “entry” versus the other being styled as class “entrytext”.
December 9th, 2007 at 11:56 PM
Since my other comment seemed to be stuck in moderation because of to many links I put all the screenshots in one place:
http://fate.starocotes.de/screens.html
It seems that there is a difference between entries and the overview and that IE can’t render the chevrons.
December 10th, 2007 at 1:14 AM
Hmm. Looks like I’ve got to do some poking around in style.css. Thanks, everyone, and esp. Forrest and Stefan for looking at the style sheet and grabbing those screen shots. Very instructive.
December 10th, 2007 at 10:49 AM
IE doesn’t support the :before structure, but does more or less support the use-a-graphic-as-a-bullet css feature —
ul { list-style-image: url(chevron.png); }
December 11th, 2007 at 9:22 PM
I see dead people
December 12th, 2007 at 9:34 AM
Just looked at the site in IE7. I see a colossal mess. Is anyone else using that browser, and if so, are you also seeing a typographical catastrophe?
December 12th, 2007 at 3:45 PM
I’m using IE7. When you first asked, I saw no dots. Now I see dots. But I don’t see a colossal mess (except for the spaghetti sauce on my T-shirt).
December 13th, 2007 at 11:10 AM
Mine was chevrons until today; now it’s dots.
December 14th, 2007 at 2:47 AM
Holy Hellspank! Now I’m seeing dots too!!!
Firefox, I call thee trixy and false!
December 21st, 2007 at 11:53 PM
I’ve got my Mac Mini running OS X (Leopard, and wishing I hadn’t upgraded so soon), Firefox, and to me it doesn’t matter as long as I can read the words. 😉