dive into mark

Daniel Berlinger: What do you do when people change their RSS urls like diveintomark did? Oy. And Mark, if you happen to read this, while your site may look great in Lynx, the text is tiny on IE Mac. By your own numbers, more than twice the number of people read your site on Mac than Lynx. Help me read your site please! It’s also one of those pages where I can’t select any text (to quote it) without viewing the source. Lastly, despite you having posted a bunch of things today (Feb 3.) your RSS file is empty (http://diveintomark.org/xml/rss.php) so there’s a bug somewhere… I’m glad your back.

1. Empty RSS feed: fixed. My mistake. I was hacking it to include posts with no links (which sort of works now, at least better than Manila, which insists on ignoring them completely, thus forcing bloggers to confuse their readers by offering two syndication formats), and I forgot to reset a hard-coded parameter I was using for debugging.
2. Text selection bug: fixed. This is actually a bug in the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer, which refuses to select text in a DIV positioned absolutely. I rejiggered (that’s a technical term) the stylesheets so this main text DIV is positioned relatively. The site should look more or less the same, but Mac IE users can select text now.
3. Changing RSS URL: sorry. I can’t help it; I got a new domain, and AFAIK, Manila doesn’t support URL forwarding to external sites.
4. Text too small: sorry I can’t reproduce this on an iBook running Mac OS X and Internet Explorer 5.1. My fonts look exactly the same as your fonts, same size, same typeface, everything.

BTW, Daniel, your site gives me script errors on both Internet Explorer for Windows (illegal character on line 2) and Macintosh (syntax error on line 385). Your site also does not validate, but the script errors are of more immediate concern.

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