Wednesday Ramblings, CSS, Etc.

Okay, I'm officially giving Internet Explorer the finger over its handling of text size. *waves fist*

I wanted to play nice and everything, but dadgummit, Internet Explorer makes you jump through so many hurdles to make your site look consistent between it and every other bloody browser out there, and I'm tired of playing with it. So, while I had plans to go with em units for my web fonts, I'm sticking with good ol' pixels.

What does this mean to you? It means that if you think the text on my new site is too small — or too big — you can resize it in every browser available except for Internet Explorer.

Microsoft's "logic" in this is that using pixels for sizing means the pixel size is the size the item should be — therefore you shouldn't be able to scale said item up or down. I agree with this logically, but Explorer is the only browser that adheres to that thinking, and in the Democracy of Browsers, I think they need to get over it (though they kind of did with IE7's Screen Scaling).

So, I'm back to pixels. Windows users should be using Firefox or Safari, anyway.

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You know you're a d0rk when you enjoy unnecessarily commenting your CSS.

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I am oh so very sick of David Cook. I'm wagering the Irish gal or Brooke will be going home tonight. (I'm talking about American Idol, just in case you were wondering.)

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I think I figured out how the wasps were getting into our house. The little twerps were, I think, getting into the attic via the soffit vents, then crawling their way out of the attic door — which doesn't close all the way. Methinks they saw the available light and followed it out. I have reached this determination after taping the aforementioned attic door crack, and since taping (a couple of weeks ago), nary a wasp has been found inside.

Now I just need to buy (and install) a new attic door/ladder thingie. Yay for that.