So in case you haven’t noticed the guys over at Ziff Davis have soft launched an online video show called Digital Life TV. Patrick Norton is the host of the show and it looks like he is starting to get back into his old TechTV groove. Of course as you can see Patrick is having fun when he’s not busy nuking NewTek Tricaster’s or small MP3 players:
However the best part of the show has to be the little easter eggs that Patrick sneaks into the show like this one when he was reviewing the Sony Ericsson W800 Walkman phone:
So far the show has a number of rough edges to it but it covers a wide variety of topics and keeps a light attitude about things so its fun to watch. New episodes are streamed live every Tuesday at 6PM PST and are then available for download later that night on their website. With some money, time, and luck we could be looking at something to fill that void left after The Screen Savers was taken away from us.
Well I took the plunge and decided to update the theme on WordPress here to beta one revision 60 of K2 (see link at absolute bottom of the blog page). It was relatively painless and I haven’t noticed any major issues yet. I went back to the drawing board with regards to troubleshooting this websites appearance in IE6 verses how its supposed to look in a real honest to gods standards compliant browser like Firefox. Based on some comments others left in the K2 Bug Discussion forum over on Flickr people suspected that the Adsense code from Google was most likely the culprit. Sure enough if I removed the Adsense code from the sidebar on the side everything loaded up just fine in IE6. After examining the HTML code for the Adesense content it seems that if IE6 sees a table row with a “nowrap” attribute it refuses to honor any wrapping CSS attributes. Also, IE6 seems to render the Google Adsense searchbox bigger then its supposed to, causing the Adsense element to be wider then the max width percentage specified in the CSS file for the sites theme, thus making IE6 think the sidebar content is too wide and thus shuffling it down to the bottom of the posted blog entries on the site. At this point what I’ve done is used a different layout of the Google Adsense searchbox code and this seems to make every browser happy now.
Also, if you are a Mac user I highly recommend you upgrade to Safari 2.0.1, it fixed some CSS layout issues I had noticed.
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