Comments on: Monday tidbits

By: Jim Hammond

Jim Hammond — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:04:26 +0000

I would like to see it fixed for Safari as I, notwithstanding the chauvinism regarding browsers, prefer that browser. It looks fine with IE and Firefox. With Safari I don’t think I have all the links that were usually on the right side, either.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:41:29 +0000

It looks great on my Mac, on Firefox; and I agree with BMurray, as long as I can read it, that’s what matters. If the medium is pleasing to the eye, or at least not distracting, that’s gravy! Just keep enjoying what you do…

By: Navneeth

Navneeth — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:01:08 +0000

Hi!

I started subscribing to the RSS feed a few days ago (via Live Bookmars in Firefox), but the blog failed to load. I just noticed a few minutes ago that it works now.

Blog on!

By: Irishman

Irishman — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:22:56 +0000

icemith, in order to deorbit, the Shuttle must slow down. This is accomplished by a thruster burn pointed into the direction of motion. The thrusters in question are the OMS. You are correct, they do not power on the Main Engines used for launch. I think Phil was speaking a bit metaphorically, using a common turn of phrase.

By: Doug Keenan

Doug Keenan — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:50:03 +0000

Is there a “pilot’s eye view” video available from the landing?

By: icemith

icemith — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:16:20 +0000

Phil, just wondering, I didn’t know that an “engine” needed to be fired to de-orbit. Just release some of the gas propellant. Or am I wrong again?

Re the blog look on the screen (Safari), looks pretty good to me, as I commented before, it grows on you. (Miss the Preview button still). With a biggish screen (soso HP 21″ crt), I know I can narrow the line length, but at 1600 x1200 res. it leaves the print small, and subsequently the lines are longish. Not that that matters to me, I can easily punch up the size of the print, pressing keys a couple of times. This also solves the problem of reading lines that are too long, as I tend to re-read the start of some lines sometimes, and this detracts from my pleasure, in my time in the House,-sorry blog!

Ivan.

By: Dan Gerhards

Dan Gerhards — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:11:08 +0000

This is good!

I want to add a vote for astrology and moon hoax links in the menu. Hoagland’s Mars nonsense should probably be up there too.

By: Brian Harrington

Brian Harrington — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:54:16 +0000

Safari is sensitive to comments in the CSS. On line 308 of your CSS file you have a comment that is not started properly:

color: #666; /color of >>> before links in sidebar */

I saved the main page and changed this to:

color: #666; /* color of >>> before links in sidebar */

After making the page looked the same in Safari as it did in Firefox.

By: Simple Guy

Simple Guy — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:25:39 +0000

BA, looking good!! (using Firefox 1.5.0.4)

By: Irishman

Irishman — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:56:06 +0000

I like the new links on the left. I like the category headings, too. I would consider putting the three big debunking headings into that link list as well – Astrology, Moon Hoax, and Hoagland.

By: BMurray

BMurray — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:56:42 +0000

New format doesn’t use all available horizontal space — I have a lot of useless blue on the sides and a fairly narrow center column containing the information I most read. It is, however, perfectly legible which is all I really want from a web site.

By: Roy Batty

Roy Batty — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:47:40 +0000

‘What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?’

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:51:32 +0000

You are the master of symmetry. Now we just want the two sidebars to be equal in length for total balance.

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:42:26 +0000

Nuts. The feeds have caused me lots of grief. I’ll look into that in a little bit.

By: Bart

Bart — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:35:09 +0000

The RSS feed URLs in the link rel=alternate tags are still pointing to the old, now broken, feeds.

By: Grand_Lunar

Grand_Lunar — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:53:27 +0000

I like this new style. Looks cool.

I watched the entire landing event of the Discovery on NASA TV, from the OMS burn to wheelstop.
I was surprised how fast it goes! Well, relatively fast.

By: Will M.

Will M. — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:47:40 +0000

Never mind; after closer looking I now see the left side border. I guess I’d like a space after the border – a margin within the enclosure. But what the hey, I can still read everything, so I’ll quit the nit-picking.

By: Will M.

Will M. — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:40:53 +0000

I’m getting the site via e-mail notice. I still get the old main page this way (so far). Using the link, I finally got the “new”
page with today’s posting. In Safari, the site is now shown over the entire page – no more blue borders and lots of white. I can adjust the size of the page to shrink the “stretch,” but I’d like to have a border on each side, not just the right side of the page. I’ll try Firefox next time and see what that looks like. Other than that, s’all hokay by me.

By: Kaptain K

Kaptain K — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:39:26 +0000

Looks good to me – Netscape 8.1

Also checked IE 6.0. Looks fine there too.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:35:32 +0000

Shuttle landed, BTW.

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:33:45 +0000

You need to view it in Safariâ€¦.

Actually, I think you need to switch to Firefox.

In reality, I cannot test it on a Mac very easily, since I have a PC. I did check it on IE and Firefox, and had a million little problems. For example, I was trying to put a small border around the navbar under the banner. But when I did, it kept introducing a big space under the bar in Firefox… but not IE. OK, so I changed the code, and then the problem went away on Firefox but appeared in IE! It was maddening, so I simply removed the border. I want one there to separate it from the banner image, but oh well. I have another problem in the right hand sidebar at the bottom, with the extra little line there. But that is due to the way WP codes the blogroll links, and I cannot figure out how to fix it. It’s no big deal, but I hate stuff like that.

By: Tim G

Tim G — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:08:38 +0000

It looks good to me.

Please do not assail me with produce; I am using IE 6.0 at a resolution of 1152 by 864.

By: PK

PK — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:22:24 +0000

It also looks good in Opera 8.54

By: Dukrous

Dukrous — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:21:47 +0000

Phil,

Since you’re using WordPress, you might want to look into Sidebar Widgets. It’s a neat way to keep things organized and modular.

Also, the Shuttle is safely back on solid ground. The landing was nearly perfect as I could tell.

By: Michelle Rochon

Michelle Rochon — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:35:03 +0000

Very good! I like that menu on the side! I think it’s the perfect middleground for the people that prefered the old page and those that prefered the blog.