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Andy Oram

January 22, 2002 by Michael Boyle

, who once moderated the excellent Cyber-Rights list for the CPSR, has written a fantastic article on the re-petition by the defendants in the 2600 case: Copy Controls and Circumvention: Don’t Get Around Much Any More. It’s on the O’Reilly Network.

Astute readers will notice

January 22, 2002 by Michael Boyle

that I’ve applied a new design to the “radio remix” of mikel dot org. It’s still an open question whether I’ll convert all of this site to Radio, but barring any huge problems the design of the whole site will change shortly. The biggest issue is that I’ve accumulated quite a few static pages with the old design, and changing each of them will take some time.

Anyhow, for now, I would love any and all feedback that you have on the new look. I am happy with it (bugs and all), though it’s not 100% yet.

As others have noted

January 21, 2002 by Michael Boyle

, a big welcome back to ThisBoyIsToast. Mayhem and mystery from the toasty one.

Boing Boing

January 21, 2002 by Michael Boyle

is undoubtedly the class of the world of weblogs, or at least among very few really first class “links n commentary” sites around. Boing Boing turns two today. Congratulations to all who contribute over there.

So with a fresh approach

January 21, 2002 by Michael Boyle

I managed to get the new mikel dot org design working, more or less. But really more or less. It appears perfectly in both IE5/Mac and IE 5.5 Win. It appears OK in Netscape 6.2. The whole thing is very weird though. It started working when I commented out all the margin variables and nested the bottom two divs inside the div containing the top content (the title graphic etc.). Then I used top and left positioning to put up the main text div. Fair enough. The positioning worked OK at the top and left.

Now the funny part. I didn’t want to specify a width for the main text div, as I want the site to be perfectly fluid. When I set a right position it worked perfectly in IE 5.5/Win. It didn’t work at all in IE5/Mac. So just for kicks I put in a “margin-right” as well. Suddenly it worked perfectly in IE on both platforms (which I don’t think it should do). Only Netscape does things as I would expect, which is to start the margin x pixels over from where the right edge is supposed to be (from where “right: #px” tells it to start counting).

Anyhow, it validates as valid CSS now, and the content is very readable on the platforms that I’ve tested it on, so I’m going to implement it in the next few days. If anyone can set me straight on my CSS foibles, however, I would really appreciate it.