Something clever.
Today is the release date of Firefox 3. If you’re still using Internet Explorer, today would be the perfect day to test drive the highly superior Firefox browser. As of publication of this post, the software has yet to be launched, but when it is, you’ll be able to find it here.
So far, more than 1.5 million people have pledged to download the software today in Firefox’s bid to break the Guinness world record for most downloads in a 24-hour period.
Apparently, some users of Internet Explorer were having trouble viewing this Web site lately. The header and side columns would show, but the middle column — you know, the one with all the posts — was missing and jumbled at the bottom of the page.
So I switched to the default WordPress theme while I find a new look.
I think software updates knocked the old theme out of usability. I also noticed that the theme switch has cured a problem I had with my blog and Flickr communicating with each other.
So pardon my blog’s mess while I update the theme and explore Flickrizing my gallery.
I know my blog’s physical appearance is changing more than Linda Wachowski, but I think this time it’s for good.
I hope you like the new look. I’ve changed blog publishing software back to WordPress from Movable Type and have found a new layout I like better than the last two.
Movable Type ended up being too much of a headache. The software interface, though I initially liked it a lot, never quite worked as it should. The innards of the software — that which readers never see — was very slow to respond. And the software’s “dashboard” display never ran as designed. I’m confident it was a problem with the permission settings of the software’s folders on the servers, but that wasn’t the only problem.
No, you’ve come to the right place. The blog is undergoing a lot of changes.
Aside from the very obvious design change, the majority of changes are under the hood — things readers won’t see, but are large improvements for me, the blog writer.
Problems I was experiencing with Internet Explorer not being able to see embedded videos from YouTube or Google Video prompted me to look into new turnkey blog software.
On my home computer, which runs Vista and the latest versions of Internet Explorer 7 and Norton Internet Security, the embedded blog videos were not displaying properly when I viewed the blog in Internet Explorer.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer seems to be back to its old ways.
As I originally discussed in this postback in April, IE has some problems showing the videos I embed into posts. Instead of showing the video box with the play button ready to go, it will show only a big blank white space with a text link to YouTube or Google, where the video is stored.
The videos appear to work fine on a machine running Windows XP and IE 7, but when I test them on my home machine, which uses Vista, the video problem occurs.
If you’re an individual that has been waiting for the 123rd reason to switch to Firefox for your Internet browsing, this may be what finally converts you.
Do you see all those broken links in the posts below? That means you’re still using IE and you’re not getting the full experience of this blog like your peers using Firefox.
I use Firefox on both my home and work machines, which is why I wasn’t aware of the problem until just now.
The problem originates from how IE handles embedded videos in a blog created using WordPress, the blogging program I use to create all these wonderful posts. And there appears to be no easy solution.
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