Experiments

[tinyjo]

I have switched to using inline style sheets for my comments pages, so can those of you who were experiencing problems with the stylesheet taking a long time to load have a look and see if that's any better? Thanks

Comments

[jinty]

I think that is quicker -- will also check it out at home on Safari.

awesomely so, no lag at all

[cleanskies.livejournal.com]

smooth as a very silky silk thing

[truecatachresis.livejournal.com]

Seems fine; however, as to the text size, the problem would appear to be that the rext size your style sheet uses is not affected by the text-sizing options in IE, although Mozilla's text-zoom works fine. So, your style was showing up as teeny-tiny in IE. It seems to be OK in Mozilla, now, though.

[soulsong.livejournal.com]

Much improved.

[entirelysonja.livejournal.com]

Much better, and doesn't have the weird formatting glitches I experienced previously.

[entirelysonja.livejournal.com]

Phooey, I spoke too soon. Still has weird formatting glitches where the text sometimes runs over the userpics.

(Safari 1.0 v85)

[jinty]

Might well be a Safari thing. I've spotted that for other sytles/situations where IE at work (PC) is fine.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Not doing that for me on Safari. However, some userpics and the 'parent | reply' bits aren't fitting into the boxes surrounding comments on Safari, Camino, Mozilla or IE for the Mac. Amusingly it looks like different pictures are messed up on different browsers.

[shepline.livejournal.com]

Instantaneous! Still got the IE vs. CSS box problem though...?!! Doesn't inline styles cause a problem if you want update the stylesheets? No single point of contact and all that...?

[jinty]

Loading amaingly quicker but with the 'text over pictures' thing.

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Yes - it means I have to maintain my stylesheet code in 2 places :( On the other hand, that shouldn't be a more important consideration than the usability of my site for it's readers and I discovered from Jeremy/Ian the other night that the stylesheet was loading so much later that there was a visible re-draw after the initial page load. I assume that's my hosting company serving slower than LJ. I never noticed it because I'm on my pages so much that I think my browser has cached my stylesheet.

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Weird. Is this the (reply | thread) bit, or the actual text of the comments themselves?

[shepline.livejournal.com]

I assume that's my hosting company serving slower than LJ

Now that I'm with OpenHosting, I haven't noticed any particular decrease in speed in stylesheet loading (although fetching email using a remote web client does seem to be a tad slower) - but then, I'm just pleased to be with a bunch of friendly guys who actually answer support questions and set things up when you want them too!!

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Ruddy IE! Discovered while looking at something for Ian that if you fiddle with the text size, the actual text size doesn't change but the box problem goes away intermittantly! I don't know if that will be fixable tbh as I haven't had any luck in tracking down what the actual bug is :(

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That's double weird because I fixed that problem a couple of weeks ago but now I'm getting it back again!

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Looks fine on IE 6 on XP though. :)

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Actually, I've found the problem. IE interpreted floats inside divs in a way which, while not correct, gives the effect I want :) Other browsers don't so I set a min-height using CSS selectors (html>body) to hide it from IE because it gets confused by min-height. Unfortunatly, LJ is running my page through the HTML cleaner and so in the resulting page it's html>body which is no use to man nor beast! I'm working on it though.

Bet you really wanted to know all that :)