Gmail and a quotation
If you have a gmail account and *if* you use Firefox, now you can colorize the gmail page with a Firefox extension, Gmail Skins. I’m not a fan of Google blue. In fact, I dislike it passionately. So now there’s a choice of several different colors. Some of them are kind of ‘meh’, but there are enough selections for anyone to successfully find something with which to deep six the Google blue. I’m diggin’ the Pale and Slate hues.
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Also...the Gmail Manager extension has been expanded since the last time I tried it. The blurb on the Firefox page says:
(Gmail Manager)Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.
I love it. Especially the part about having more than one gmail account open at the same time. Finally!
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If you are one of the handful of people who doesn’t have a gmail account and you’d like to try one, I have one hundred invitations sitting around forlornly waiting for a place to go.
Edited: For reasons I haven’t figured out yet, the last paragraph of this post (the quotation) royally fouled up the formatting on the blog page (on IE) and shoved the blog entries down past the end of the sidebar. So I removed it. I don’t suppose it’s any great loss, but thought you should know.
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Hey.
Just throught I’d comment on the edited note..
I’m assuming the quotation was italisized? If so, it’s a bug in IE if using justified text too (which you are), where IE calculates the width of the italisized text after the justification, so it doesn’t wrap at the correct place, and will often push your css standards compliant browser all funny (gotta love IE...)
The fix, which I found online somewhere by googling it, is as follows: (i’d credit the people who i got it from, if I could remember - sorry - it’s not my fix tho)
/* Italics Justified Fixes */
/*** This is a fix for IE5/Win at the largest text size setting. ***/
/* \*/
* html .left {margin-right: -3px;}
/* */
em {
font-style: italic;
text-align: justify;
}
/*** The following fixes prevent justified italic text from destroying the layout in IE/win.
The problem is that those properties together make IE force the container wider,
which in this type of floated layout causes a float drop. Pre-IE6 gets “width: 100%”
and “overflow: hidden”, while IE6 gets “width: auto” and “overflow: visible, which
is the default, but explicitly stating it seems to keep IE6 happy. IE6 also needs
to see the “height: 1%” to give it some kind of box dimension. Browser coddling
we call it. Finally, Bruno found that “word-wrap: break-word;” disarranged the
justified text in IE5.5 and 6, so it is defaulted to “normal” for this text.
If you don’t need justified and italicized text then forget all these fixes ***/
/* \*/
* html em {
overflow: hidden;
width: 100%;
o\verflow: visible;
w\idth: auto;
hei\ght: 1px;
}
cool, hope that helps