jimbrooking
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# Posted: 21 Jun 2008 14:36 - Edited by: jimbrooking
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You may have noticed a couple of changes to the site. First, I added a real-time look at the current state of the Fall elections, as seen by "The Votemaster". His site is at http://www.electoral-vote.com/. The small picture represents current polling data for the Electoral College ("EC"), as well as the Senate and the House. This site was close - some would say dead on - in 2004 until Ohio Repugs stole the state and handed it to Bush the Decider.
Also, I am experimenting with code that makes the content of my web pages max out at around 800 pixels across. (A page's content is the stuff between the top and bottom headings, i.e., that which can be scrolled using the right scroll bar.) I find that if they are wider than that, it's hard to track line-to-line when reading the page. In theory, if you view the page in a window that's greater than 800 pixels, the width will stick at 800. If you view the page on a narrower screen, it will be rendered, if possible, using the narrower width. If it can't all be shown at the narrower width, there will be a scroll bar at the bottom as well as the right sides, which will not add to your viewing pleasure.
This feature is implemented differently in different browsers. I am fairly confident that it's OK in Firefox (version 2 or 3) and Opera (version 9), and seems to work in MSIE (version 6)if you set MSIE into quirks mode (see other posting about that). If you experience problems viewing the site, please let me know what browser and version you are running and I'll try to fix it.
With browsers, as with Unix, we say "We love standards - we have so MANY of them!"
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