Storm, Dan wrote: > Storm, Dan wrote: > >> I have drop caps at this site where I use a JS CSS swapper: >> >> http://sorenkierkegaard.org/comment.htm >> >> In the default version (the white background version) the drop cap >> would work in Firefox 1.5.8 only on the first page, but after you >> navigate out, the letter would display without the drop cap >> (sometimes duplicated). Then if you would redraw the page, the >> affected paragraph would be duplicated. Very weird. (IE 6 is fine). >> > >> Could this be related to the style swapper JS? Has anyone seen this >> before? > > David at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I visited your page in FF 1.5.0.8 on Linux with JS turned off (the > way I always browse the web). I didn't experience any problems with > the drop caps displaying, or with duplicate paragraphs. My guess is > something wrong in your JS or what it's trying to do. > > ---- Thanks, David. Let me be clearer. I already had a solution by > virtue of this: p.first {position: relative;} > > My question is really whether anyone has seen Firefox choke on a > dropcap and reduplicate the entire paragrph on refresh. To reiterate, > before I applied the relative positioing to the .first class the > problem happened only with the former of the two following > declarations (found in 2 different CSS files): > > p.first:first-letter {float: left; margin-right: 6px; padding: 8px; > font: italic 2.5em "Times New Roman", Times, serif; color: #FFF; > background-color: #555; border: 1px solid #F00;} > > p.first:first-letter {float: left; margin-right: 6px; padding: 5px; > font: italic 4em "Times New Roman", Times, serif; color: #008080;} > > I'm simply wonedering if this is a Mozilla bug that is worth > reporting. But like you I suspect the problem is in the styleswitch > er JS file.
I don't know about that, but I went back to your page, enabled Javascript, and went to the biography page - where the drop caps render several lines above where they're supposed to. To me, that ties it securely to the JS you're using. If the JS is manipulating styles, is it actually doing what you think it's doing? Now whether or not it's a Mozilla bug is something I can't tell, because I don't know what your JS is or what it's trying to when I go to other pages on your site. On the biograph.htm page, HTML Tidy reports discarding two unexpected </blockqoute> tags. Here's where two of them are: <p class="blockquote">It was then the great earthquake occurred, the terrible upheaval which suddenly pressed on me a new infallible law for the interpretation of all phenomena. It was then I suspected my father's great age was not a divine blessing but rather a curse; that our family's excellent mental abilities existed only for tearing us apart from one another; I felt the stillness of death spreading over me when I saw in my father an unhappy person who would survive us all, a monumental cross on the grave of all his expectations. A guilt must weigh on the entire family, God's punishment must be upon it; it was meant to disappear, expunged by God's mighty hand, deleted like an unsuccessful attempt, and I only occasionally found some little solace in the thought that upon my father had fallen the heavy duty of reassuring us with the consolation of religion, administering the last sacrament, so that a better world might still stand open for us even if we lost everything in this one, even if that punishment the Jews always called down upon their foes were to fall on us; that all memory of us would be wiped out and no trace found (II A 805).</p></blockquote> <p>On October 2, 1855 Kierkegaard fell unconscious in the street, suffering paralysis of the legs. He was taken to Frederick's Hospital. It is not entirely clear what illness he had, but it may have been some ailment of the spine. During the forty days that he lingered in the hospital room, he had banned his brother Peter from entering. His friend Pastor Boesen visited him daily. Boesen tried to offer Holy Communion to Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard refused it. When asked if he wanted it, he said, "Yes, but not from a parson". He was willing to die without Communion rather than contradict himself, for he had said that the Lutheran Church had to be abandoned as long as God was being mocked in the churches. "The parsons are royal functionaries, and royal functionaries are not related to Christianity". This information comes from Pastor Boesen's own notes which he kept of Kierkegaard's final days (see W. Lowrie's <em>A Short Life of Kierkegaard</em>, p. 253ff.).</p></blockquote> I don't know if it has anything to do with the problem, but it certainly isn't correct. -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] authenticity, honesty, community ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
