Comments on: Can Any Computer People Help Me Out? http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/ by Hemant Mehta Sat, 26 May 2012 21:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Richard Wade http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-52497 Richard Wade Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:35:26 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-52497 Hemant, the apostrophe thing happened again, this time just when I added one word to my comment during the "edit" period. No block quoting was attempted. Now my first comment on the posting about the ground refuting the Creation Museum is filled with bizarro punctuation marks that my computer doesn't even have. It's a mess. I didn't realize how many apostrophes I use. I'm going to try it here to see if it happens again with a phrase with an apostrophe in it: Hemant's new software has problems with apostrophes. ' Hmm. Didn't happen. Weird. Hemant, the apostrophe thing happened again, this time just when I added one word to my comment during the “edit” period. No block quoting was attempted. Now my first comment on the posting about the ground refuting the Creation Museum is filled with bizarro punctuation marks that my computer doesn’t even have. It’s a mess. I didn’t realize how many apostrophes I use. I’m going to try it here to see if it happens again with a phrase with an apostrophe in it:

Hemant’s new software has problems with apostrophes. ‘

Hmm. Didn’t happen. Weird.

]]> By: Miko http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-52419 Miko Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:46:54 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-52419 <blockquote>you guys aren’t joking about [div] being an actual command, are you?</blockquote> Nope. Think div as in divider. <blockquote>Because [/div] is just too precious (the end of divinity)….</blockquote> That's right: CSS is all an atheist plot. :-)

you guys aren’t joking about [div] being an actual command, are you?

Nope. Think div as in divider.

Because [/div] is just too precious (the end of divinity)….

That’s right: CSS is all an atheist plot. :-)

]]> By: Eliza http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-52387 Eliza Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:55:13 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-52387 Did you try prayer? ;-) Gotta ask - you guys aren't joking about [div] being an actual command, are you? Because [/div] is just too precious (the end of divinity).... :-) Did you try prayer? ;-)

Gotta ask – you guys aren’t joking about [div] being an actual command, are you? Because [/div] is just too precious (the end of divinity)…. :-)

]]> By: FriendlyAtheist http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-52384 FriendlyAtheist Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:07:31 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-52384 Richard-- That is odd... I fixed the quotation above. Perhaps another reader has a suggestion on how to fix that? Richard– That is odd… I fixed the quotation above. Perhaps another reader has a suggestion on how to fix that?

]]> By: Richard Wade http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-52294 Richard Wade Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:10:16 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-52294 Hemant, I just discovered another glitch. In a blockquoted statement, apostrophes become very weird collections of random punctuation marks. The more the page is reloaded during the 15 minute "edit" period, the worse it gets. See the blockquote in my comment in your Pray for Rain/Rain Dance posting. Hemant, I just discovered another glitch. In a blockquoted statement, apostrophes become very weird collections of random punctuation marks. The more the page is reloaded during the 15 minute “edit” period, the worse it gets. See the blockquote in my comment in your Pray for Rain/Rain Dance posting.

]]> By: Tao Jones http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-51920 Tao Jones Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:42:16 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-51920 While I'm not very familiar with WP, it does seem like your div tags are not nested properly. I could be wrong but I'm assuming: ( div id="content" ) is supposed to be for the main column. In this case, it is not closed until the end, at the very bottom of the "side bar" code. the "wrapper" tag does not appear to be closed at all. If the problem only happens on the comments page, then I think what is happening is the /div at the beginning of sidebar.php is being borrowed by your Live Preview code, while it was supposed to close the "content" tag. The fix should be to add a /div tag at the bottom of the Live Preview code. Hope this helps. While I’m not very familiar with WP, it does seem like your div tags are not nested properly.

I could be wrong but I’m assuming:

( div id=”content” )

is supposed to be for the main column. In this case, it is not closed until the end, at the very bottom of the “side bar” code. the “wrapper” tag does not appear to be closed at all.

If the problem only happens on the comments page, then I think what is happening is the /div at the beginning of sidebar.php is being borrowed by your Live Preview code, while it was supposed to close the “content” tag.
The fix should be to add a /div tag at the bottom of the Live Preview code.

Hope this helps.

]]> By: Aerik http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-51918 Aerik Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:36:59 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-51918 Ah, you know what? I just made a simple user style that only said "#sidebar { float: right; }" and the sidebar just moved to the right of the same column as your comment area. Which means you have #sidebar nested incorrectly. It looks like you have it set up so that you have the content, comments, and sidebar as 3 divs inside the screen wrapper, but you have both #sidebar and #content set to float: left. div#Wrapper { div#content (left) ol#comments (?) div#sidebar (left) } Surely you see what's wrong with this, right? You've been managing to get your sidebar on your right not because you formatted it that way, but because browsers are forgiving for bad html. div#Wrapper { > div#content (left) { >> ol#comments (?) } >div#sidebar (right) } #footer #akst_form See that? Nest the comment list inside the content, so that the contnet (stuff you wrote) and the comments float to the left as one unit, and the sidebar to the right as another unit. But from what I understand about wordpress themes, you can't access HTML directly, right? I use blogger, and I can manipulate this stuff as much as I want. Ah, you know what? I just made a simple user style that only said “#sidebar { float: right; }” and the sidebar just moved to the right of the same column as your comment area. Which means you have #sidebar nested incorrectly.

It looks like you have it set up so that you have the content, comments, and sidebar as 3 divs inside the screen wrapper, but you have both #sidebar and #content set to float: left.

div#Wrapper {
div#content (left)
ol#comments (?)
div#sidebar (left)
}

Surely you see what’s wrong with this, right? You’ve been managing to get your sidebar on your right not because you formatted it that way, but because browsers are forgiving for bad html.

div#Wrapper {
> div#content (left) {
>> ol#comments (?) }
>div#sidebar (right)
}

#footer
#akst_form

See that? Nest the comment list inside the content, so that the contnet (stuff you wrote) and the comments float to the left as one unit, and the sidebar to the right as another unit.

But from what I understand about wordpress themes, you can’t access HTML directly, right? I use blogger, and I can manipulate this stuff as much as I want.

]]> By: rekounas http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-51917 rekounas Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:22:53 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-51917 The error console complains about the following: Error: quicktagsL10n is not defined Source File: http://friendlyatheist.com/wp-includes/js/quicktags.js Line: 263 Something wrong with the quick tag that is making your style go messed for the single view page. The error console complains about the following:

Error: quicktagsL10n is not defined
Source File: http://friendlyatheist.com/wp-includes/js/quicktags.js
Line: 263

Something wrong with the quick tag that is making your style go messed for the single view page.

]]> By: FriendlyAtheist http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-51915 FriendlyAtheist Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:18:00 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-51915 Aerik-- <blockquote>I just looked at your “styles.css” and it has both #content and #sidebar set to float: left. That’s probably the crux. When I have javascript disabled, the sidebar sits on the right, so probably you mean to have the sidebar set to float: right;</blockquote> When I change the sidebar to float:right, it still stayed underneath my post (but to the right side of the post...) Any other suggestions? Aerik–

I just looked at your “styles.css” and it has both #content and #sidebar set to float: left. That’s probably the crux. When I have javascript disabled, the sidebar sits on the right, so probably you mean to have the sidebar set to float: right;

When I change the sidebar to float:right, it still stayed underneath my post (but to the right side of the post…)

Any other suggestions?

]]> By: Jacob Wintersmith http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-51913 Jacob Wintersmith Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:16:57 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2007/07/06/can-any-computer-people-help-me-out/#comment-51913 Hmm... the sidebar behaves correctly in Konqueror 3.57 and Opera 9.21; Firefox 2.0 does display the bad behavior you mentioned. It's probably a bug in Firefox's CSS layout rendering. And there is probably some workaround, but I don't know what it is. Hmm… the sidebar behaves correctly in Konqueror 3.57 and Opera 9.21; Firefox 2.0 does display the bad behavior you mentioned. It’s probably a bug in Firefox’s CSS layout rendering. And there is probably some workaround, but I don’t know what it is.

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