Paint the Tiger, Carve the Swan

I’ve played around with CSS for the last couple of hours, and have finally got my RSS/RDF links to be rendered like icons (with a border and so on).

It took me ages to figure it out, but I was only able to change the background colour, until I removed the <li> tags from the links - that was overriding the ability to change border and text colour.

I then spent a couple more hours trying to make the same thing happen for the Search and Post Comment buttons, before discovering that Safari, and Camino, don’t support changing the look of form buttons. And I’m not going to bear using IE to test it under…I’ll live with the images I’ve made (for now).

What would be cool is to make all of the elements of Connections work in CSS - like the top and bottom bits of the sidebar boxes, and so forth.

Well, the bits than can be made by CSS, anyway.

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Stupid cats fightin’ outside our window again. Seems to be happening most nights now.

I went outside, and they were literally right outside the bedroom window.

If it gets to be a problem, I may have to kill them.

Seriously, when I went out with the torch, they just stopped, mid fight, like schoolkids. And walked away. “We weren’t doing anything, sir.”

[I've disabled Trackbacks & Pingbacks on this post, it has been getting hammered lately.]

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We went and saw Revenge of the Sith last night, at the Capri Cinema, on Goodwood Road. I’ll begin by saying how cool that building is! Built in 1940, most of it is still the original, or near to it, and I love it.

A shame I can’t say the same about the film.

To be fair, about one minute into the film, I was already hating it, but that was because of the dickhead sitting about 3 seats across from me. Before the movie had even started, he was laughing a stupid, high pitched, inane laugh at things that weren’t funny. Initially, I thought “hey, this guy has just had his mate tell him a really funny joke”, as it was in one of the little ads at the start that weren’t remotely funny.

Then, when the movie began, and he laughed at everything (like each time young jedi were called “younglings”). It made me uncomfortable, and also made me not want to laugh at anything in the film, for fear of being like him. You should be allowed to kill people for this sort of thing. (I must say, at one stage I turned to Jaq and said “Maybe he’s retarded”. But retarded people aren’t this bad…)

So the film began, and like many people have said, it was pretty slow. Sure, the initial battle scene was intense, but it was kind of repetitive. The original trilogy had short combat scenes, sandwiched between sections of real plot and character development.

Oh, and real acting, too. None of this wooden bullshit that Hayden Christiansen seems to only be capable of. Maybe it’s just too hard to act in front of a blue screen.
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Is it possible to have images not inline in ecto - that is, spanning more than one line? In short, no. To do it like this page is, you’ll need to hand edit the HTML code (which almost removes the beauty of ecto), and put in a table. Just placing the photo and text inside a <table>, and <tr>, but with the image in one <td>, and the text in another <td> will do it.

Update: A better method can be found at Using CSS to replace Tables.

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