Icons, The GIMP, Internet Exploder and a summers day
Firstly. Apparently, this has nothing to do with
| Thee | Summer Day | Score | |
| Name | MatGB (43) | Thursday 13th April (68) | 0 : 1 |
| Loveliness | Lovelier | Lovely | 1 : 1 |
| Temperature | 98.6° F | 60° F | 2 : 1 |
| Lease | 31.56 years | 0.59 years | 3 : 1 |
| Complexion | 4 : 1 | ||
| MatGB is more lovely, and probably more temperate, than a summers day | |||
| Compare Me To A Summers Day | |||
Second, I have figured how to use the Gimp to make transparencies (so simple when you get it, but so not easy to find) and also to animate gifs. Um, why is gif animating an obscure save option?
Still, cool beans, I have made an icon.
Anyone reading
Apparently, it’s spring. Spring? Will you turn up soon? My flat is utterly, utterly frozen. OH, and my internal bodyclock thinks that the correct time to sleep is 5.30am. My alarm clock thinks the time to wake up is 8.30am. 6 hours sleep in 2 days not good.
Cold? Bloody southern wuss. When I were a lad…
Comment by nadriel | March 21, 2006
It’s fecking freezing back in cov too
damn the lack of central heatin
At least laffie was warm!
Comment by silentgreeneyes | March 22, 2006
Well done, you can animate gifs.
Now can you animate them a bit slower, so they’re not so painful on the eyes?
Comment by draxar | March 22, 2006
Internet Explorer doesn’t resolve the CSS properly. Set width margins; that gives a variable width centre column you useless software! Gah! It looks awful. Have I mentioned IE sucks? Oh, I think I did.
What’s your current balance of Firefox users v IE users? Is it worth your while making tremendous changes to cater for a marginal browser that hasn’t been seriously updated in eight and a half years?
Comment by daweaver | March 22, 2006
It’s currently 60% non-IE, but most of the IE traffic is daytime office workers, I’ve had feedback from people that simply can’t change their work browser. Don’t want to lose them as readers so need to make sure they can read.
Likely best option is to hide a table using the comment tag system you showed us and in that table have a few links to both download sources and an explanation of the problem. Needs to explain things in idiot-proof language; some people don’t know what a ‘browser’ is FFS. As some of these people are politicians…
Comment by matgb | March 23, 2006
Yeah, first one, had no idea how to balance it; 300 was the recommended, so I did it, looked ok to me. Now at 3000, which seems about right.
Comment by matgb | March 23, 2006
Yup, no central heating; that’s the big problem; multiple jumpers and frozen typing fingers.
It’s spring, and I’m still using the same electric as January
Comment by matgb | March 23, 2006
Yeah yeah yeah. I was born and currently live in the statistically most mild district in the UK.
I like cold weather, just not this cold, and not in a flat that just so isn’t designed for it. You’re all bills paid, I have to pay to turn the bar heater on.
Comment by matgb | March 23, 2006
Yeah, but I’m technically wasting my money then, as I haven’t used the heating for so long that I can’t remember how to turn it on…
Comment by nadriel | March 23, 2006
Well, that’s up to you, I don’t like it too hot anywhere, but as cold as this is just daft.
Comment by matgb | March 23, 2006
It’s warmer here tonight…
but still cold.
Hopefully april will be warmer
Comment by silentgreeneyes | March 23, 2006