Fiddling Around with CSS
Today has been a bit of a slow day - the data is good, trades are flowing, things are really humming along - all of which makes for a slow day for me. Not a tragedy - I had time today to mess around a little with the CSS on the server editor. I had picked up the CSS for tabs from WebFX and the 'winclassic' version was as close to Windows as I could have hoped. The problem was, it used the Windows-defined colors for 3D objects, and while that's really nice on IE, it's a mess on Firefox as those aren't globally defined in Firefox like they are in IE. So I set out to clean up a few things and in the same way that the fonts were cleaned up a while back, by specifying the RGB components, I was able to get IE and Firefox to match exactly. Nice.
I'm sure that if I had the time, energy and interest, I could look at the CSS stuff and make something really spiffy. I've seen very nice scrolling tables in CSS, and lots of other stuff, so I know it's possible, it's just that this kind of fiddling is something I really hate to do. It reminds me of the time when coding Windows apps that you had to layout your GUI components in code - moving things over 5 pixels, saving, recompiling, testing... it got old very fast. Someone is going to make this processes with CSS faster, and when they do, it'll catch on a lot better than it has up to now.
Interestingly, Apple's stock took a hit from the Keynote. I know it wasn't earth-shaking stuff, but it's really interesting to see that perception is far more important than reality in the markets. People expected something wild... something very Steve, and what they got was a developer's conference keynote - talking about the upcoming OS features. I guess even The Steve needs to watch out for his own distortion field... if he doesn't have the batteries freshly charged he can get himself into trouble.