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Hey Ozymandias,
Stress looks way cooler in Opera than Fire Fox 3. What gives?
-Scott
Well Scott, I’ve been using an instruction called “text-shadow” to create glow effects and drop shadows on titles for a couple of years. It’s a CSS3 property that isn’t implemented fully yet. At the time I put it in, KHTML/Webkit browsers like Safari and Konqueror could use it, but others couldn’t. It was planned for Gecko 1.8/Firefox 2, but did not even make it into Gecko 1.9/Firefox 3 a couple of years later. It is currently planned for Gecko 1.9.1/Firefox 3.1 which should be out in Beta form in a couple of months. When that happens, I will post a link.
Because of the fact that text-shadow used to be a CSS2 property but was dropped due to contradictory instructions, Mozilla developers pushed it back. Opera’s developers also pushed it back but implemented it in Opera 9.5.
Since the instruction has been sitting in the stylesheet for this site for over 2 years now, available to any browser that knew how to use it, it’s disappointing that full implementation has not been quicker, but that’s water under the bridge now.
-Ozymandias
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I’ve been using an instruction called “text-shadow” to create glow effects and drop shadows on titles for a couple of years. It’s a CSS3 property that isn’t implemented fully yet. At the time I put it in, KHTML/Webkit browsers like Safari and Konqueror could use it, but others couldn’t. It was planned for Gecko 1.8/Firefox 2, but did not even make it into Gecko 1.9/Firefox 3 a couple of years later. It is currently planned for Gecko 1.9.1/Firefox 3.1 which should be out in Beta form in a couple of months. When that happens, I will post a link.
Because of the fact that text-shadow used to be a CSS2 property but was dropped due to contradictory instructions, Mozilla developers pushed it back. Opera’s developers also pushed it back but implemented it in Opera 9.5.
Since the instruction has been sitting in the stylesheet for this site for over 2 years now, available to any browser that knew how to use it, it’s disappointing that full implementation has not been quicker, but that’s water under the bridge now.
Those glow effects just make me think my eyesight is worse that it already is.
There’s a difference between a glow and a blur. When the Windows version of Safari was released, it had font-rendering problems that created ugly, blurred fonts everywhere. I don’t know if that was fixed, but if you’re using Safari on Windows, you might consider downloading Opera and trying that. You can also use Firefox to view the site, as it doesn’t diplay the drop-shadows and glow effects.
Other things that could blur the fonts would be strange desktop or browser text settings, old monitors, extremely high scren resolutions tht result in extremely small fonts et al. Try using CTRL++ to zoom in on the site and see if that makes it more pleasant, especially if you have a big monitor.
I don’t think Ahmedinajad is really all that “mean.”
I read his non-”wipe off the map” speech and his letter to Bush about what being a real Christian means and he seemed very reasonable to me.
Wolfgang - I totally agree. When you actually read the transcripts or listen carefully to the translations - i.e., his appearances at the UN, Columbia University, CSPAN Mike Wallace interview, etc., his letters to Bush, etc., he has something reasonable to say. Something that we should actually be listening to.
Saying Israel is a “stinking corpse” is pretty bad PR for someone trying to stay out of a war.
ff3 has an Add-on for Text Shadow, if you want to try that until 3.1 comes out.
That extension slowed down my version of FF3 and did not implement the shadows according to the instructions in the stylesheet. I would recommend steering clear of it.