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Re: Spreadfirefox.com IE rendering bug — Elliott C. Back

Elliott Back — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:06:33 -0000

Heh, Aphyr. The stylesheet is actually squished and then gzipped compressed, so I get the benefit twice over. And, on the server it looks just fine to /me/ when I edit it, so as long as it's still valid, I don't really care how it comes out the client side! I'm getting 1,745 bytes which is a whole 48 bytes smaller than you ;)

Re: Spreadfirefox.com IE rendering bug — Elliott C. Back

Aphyr — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:06:42 -0000

Speaking of mangled CSS, have you taken a look at this stylesheet lately? No newlines or spaces between statements makes it very difficult to read. If you're going to compress text, use mod_deflate, mod_gzip, or IIS's compression support--it's faster, simpler, and more efficient than running a PHP script to mangle your finely-crafted syntax.

I wrote an 8 line perl script to reformat the results of your script, and calculate that it reduces a 7340 byte CSS file to 6556 bytes, a 10.6 percent reduction in size. Mod_gzip reduces that same file to 1793 bytes, at a compression ratio of 75.6 percent. As an added bonus, that compression can apply to all text documents you serve, without destroying their readability. Try it out--setting up server side compression is easy to do, and can definitely help out if you are bandwidth-concious. :-)

For reference, here's the script:


#!/usr/bin/perl
foreach (<>) {
        s/\;(?! })/\;\n\t/go;
        s/\;(?= })/\;\n/go;
        s/{/{\n\t/go;
        s/}/}\n\n/go;
        print;
}

All that being said, I have no idea what's up with spreadfirefox.com's stylesheets. Have you sent them an e-mail about it?

Re: Spreadfirefox.com IE rendering bug — Elliott C. Back

Ryan — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 21:41:20 -0000

You know what happened when I opened up IE to check this bug out?
It crashed as soon as I clicked the evil E and sent an error report to Microsoft. I'll stick with firefox as my browser.

Re: Spreadfirefox.com IE rendering bug — Elliott C. Back

mr nice ash — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 06:37:46 -0000

does this mean that it's really supposed to be centered at all?