Courtesy of god bless the children of iraq, free advertising! 'Cept given the popularity of this site, I'm thinking maybe that was a bad idea, seeing as how I have a bandwidth cap and all...but hopefully that won't do too much damage.

I was just looking over the blog and SC and comparing them. They've more/less got the same look going for them, but how it's achieved is very different for each...the blog basically utilizes stylesheet settings and a number of div tags (taking its cue from one of the original Blogger templates, now HEAVILY modified), whereas SC hearkens back to old school HTML 3.0 and is made with a bunch of nested tables (though it does have a stylesheet, it's mostly used for font settings). I'd consider switching SC over to the stylesheet settings (which, once the coding is done, make for much simpler and streamlined HTML), but in modifying the blog I've noticed that IE and Mozilla respond slightly differently to certain stylesheet codes. For example, many of you IE users will remember the old layout, on which that little space between the bottom border of the sidebar and the rightmost border of the content box nearly drove me insane. (Aside from the similarity to SC's new layout, that's a major reason I opted to separate the two boxes on the blog.) That didn't happen in Mozilla, though. And now, you may notice that the text is slightly off-center (it's most noticeable with the image link to SC) -- which again, isn't the case in Mozilla. See, with IE, if there's a bunch of text in a within a div block it has a tendency to create a slight margin on the right interior. Why? I have no idea; all I could find was that it was an IE quirk. You'll notice that the bars reach from end to end, but that's because I have their widths specifically fitted to the width of the bar by pixel. If instead of that, however, I'd written "100%", IE would still show you a gap. And there are other little things like that, but generally tables appear as they should and do what I tell them to, regardless of browser. Probably because these stylesheet commands are relatively newfangled, whereas tables have been around forever, so everything knows how to render 'em properly by now.

Yay for fun technical notes! Now go read the previous post if you haven't already. 🙂