Incompatibility

Posted by Ace on July 31st, 2009 filed in letters from Ace, tech stuff

It has been called to my attention that some people who view this site are seeing it with formatting errors. One error, specifically:

ie7-8-error

This vertical alignment of the journal title is not intentional.  The titles are formatted via a WordPress plug-in called FontBurner which calls a separate site to get the antique-looking font they use (the advantages being that it’s easier than coding that myself, and that you, the reader, will see that font regardless of whether or not you have it installed on your computer.)  Apparently the interaction of FontBurner with the WP template in play causes this distribution of the title characters to occur when the journal is viewed using IE7 or IE8 32-bit.  (I’ve never noticed because I don’t use IE;  I use Mozilla Firefox.  IE8 64-bit will also display it correctly, although in that case you’re buying the correctly formatted title at the price of being unable to view the Flash and Quicktime content, since IE8 64-bit doesn’t seem to have supported plug-ins for that yet.  Sheesh.)  So if you’re seeing Tales in the above configuration, it’s because your browser and FontBurner are at odds.

I’m not sure how to fix it yet.


2 Responses to “Incompatibility”

  1. Neuro Says:
    July 31st, 2009 at 10:51 pm

    This is the first time I saw the special fonts; I have had NoScript on Firefox blocking the call to Fontburner and didn’t realize it.

    Are the words “past tense” supposed to be hanging out there on the right in the banner in plain font?

  2. Ace Says:
    August 1st, 2009 at 7:24 am

    Yes, they are. That’s the site subtitle (which I change at irregular intervals depending on my mood).