Minor cosmetic changes

After losing almost all of last night to a hot problem at workWhere “hot problem” can be read as “Mr. Thinks-He’s-A-Bloody-Genius McLaren made a really stupid, and avoidable, mistake that could have cascading impact on schedules”. I managed to find a bit of time to make some minor cosmetic changes to the site. These things have been bothering me for a while, and I was too burned out to generate actual content.

What you will definitely notice: The comment box now has quicktags, which should make it easier if you want to add some HTML fancy stuff to your comments. WordPress users will already know how to use these, everyone else can learn by playing. The buttons mostly have two modes: manual and selection. If nothing is selected the buttons insert the open tag at the cursor, and then the button switches to the close tag, which you can click again at the end to insert the close tag. If something is selected, clicking the button will insert an open tag at the start of the selection and a close tag at the end. The link button works the same way, but wraps selections in a hyperlink to an URL it prompts you for. The close tags button closes all open tags. Give it a try.

What you might notice: If you use IE, you may notice that the sidebar now works correctly, and doesn’t end up with half its contents at the bottom of the page. Stupid IE.

What you probably won’t notice, and definitely don’t care about: Some changes to CSS to style some things a little differently, perhaps most notable in the borders around some most images. Also annoying to me, but probably invisible to you, is a correction to the positioning of the horizontal line under the Submit button in the comments area, and switch to the button being centered rather than right-aligned.