New(ish) Look
Well here’s the tweaked look. It’s tested only in Safari 2.0 and Firefox 1.5, both on Mac OS X, so please let me know if something breaks horribly in another browser. If that other browser is Internet Explorer, don’t expect me to care very much. Many sites can’t afford to alienate Internet Explorer users, but I can and will if I have to. That said though, it should still all work, it just might not look right.
The drop caps in entries should degrade gracefully to normal letters in Internet Explorer, as it doesn’t support the :first-child and :first-letter selectors. I had to make some compromises there to support Safari, rather disappointingly: the font sizes are specified in absolute values (points) rather than in ems, because if you specify them in ems, Safari reserves the space for the drop cap correctly, but draws it one box height too low.
Needless to say, that looks like a big stinking bug to me.
I am, I think, the most pleased with this iteration of the blog template. Hopefully that will stave off the compulsion to fiddle for a while.
The best bit is, virtually all of the modifications were done with CSS – the markup changes are minimal.