In the end I opted for Eric Meyer’s css/edge instead of going with Complex Spiral though when I come to add images I might switch back. Again I used custom markup, but only after I took a look at some other Wordpress themes. Almost identical in IE6 as FireFox, just one glaring difference abounds regarding the sidebar block size. I might be able to employ a work-around, or I could just leave IE6 in the cold as most reports suggest IE6 is a rapidly dying breed and this is supposed to be the edge…
My trusty keyboard needs to be replaced. The zero key in the numpad gave up the ghost over a year ago – you have to be sure to actually depress the key in the right spot. A similar thing has now happened to my space bar: If you don’t hit the key dead centre then the key press won’t register.
Back to the basic layout while I configure the Complex Spiral to use the default tags/php and not the bastardised version I did.
Microsoft has finally updated Internet Explorer and with it the way it treats items it views suspiciously – in particular my ActiveX control I am working on. This update not only affects IE7 but also IE6 which I have running side-by-side on my system.
What makes this update note-worthy? If you set the Security Options set to ‘lowest’ for the trusted sites and set the all the ‘prompt’s to ‘enable’ you still get asked if you would like to run the ActiveX control. Twice. It also downloads the ActiveX control. Twice. That’s 1.8mb total for the ActiveX control instead of 900kb and twice as long to initialise.
It probably has something to do with the authentication routine (you are challenged when you try to access the page with the control on it) but before IE7 was released the prompt and the download only occurred after you were challenged.