Tue November 23, 2004 | Michael J. Hammel

The problems with my CSS layout under Windows XP – Firefox and IE – had to do with positioning. In the case of IE, the side menu bars needed to be placed with position: absolute (they still need to be moved to be direct children of the body element in […]

CSS rules

Tue November 23, 2004 in General (updated 7464 days ago)

Well, it’s not actually hell but it is more work than you might expect. When I recently tried to build GIMP 2.0 I found that the configure script said I needed fontconfig v2.x, whereas my RH9 system has fontconfig 1.x. After waiting around while the fontconfig host site (freedesktop.org) was […]

GIMP 2.0 building and dependency hell

Tue November 23, 2004 in Art and Graphics / Linux / Software Development tagged Fedora / GIMP / rpm (updated 7464 days ago)

I did a little research this morning and found some potential fixes to the fixed positioning problems under IE. There is Eric Bednarz’s solution, which includes references to using IE’s conditional comments to load appropriate CSS styles. And then there is a thread form 2003 on WebmasterWorld.com that gives specific […]