Well not literally, but why does it have to be so hard to work with!!!

Web development on a Mac, in my opinion, is better from a standards point of view. I build and test on Firefox primarily, using the web developer tools (and other great add-ons). Then when I’m generally happy with the templates and CSS I try them out in IE and keep a separate style sheet to ‘fix’ what IE broke.

This week I’ve been plagued with an ongoing issue of IE freezing on printing. I’ve built an application form module for a client website (all PHP) and through the CMS they can view all completed application forms using a print stylesheet so they can print it out. For some strange reason IE would hang when processing this page, but not always.

Well I’ve discovered what was causing it (at least in my CSS). Here it is:

#dform textarea {
    font-size:12px;
    }

Take that font definition out and all is well. But WHY??

Prompted by an email from a BRF user, asking what’s happened to the new version, I’m reporting that not too much has happened in the last few months. Life has got in the way of my Cocoa coding, and I also seem to be doing a lot of ‘on the side’ web work for friends in the ministry, my church, and family members, who all seem to need websites these days!

Not too much else to say at this point, other than I’m still thinking about the development of Bible Reader. Shame my thoughts can’t produce actual code…