buggy template?

[nicholassolutions]

http://www.expertsrt.com/articles/Matt/IE-FF-tabs.html

I just tried viewing that page (and the others using the same template) for the first time on FF using linux. It renders fine, but the scrolling is *really* funky when the dash-border boxes go over the fixed background. Between that and the printing troubles (which I'm sure I could fix, but don't really feel like working on), I'm inclined to ditch that template and transition to the one I used here

http://www.expertsrt.com/articles/Matt/IE-FF-tabs.html

Has anyone else had similar trouble viewing the first page?

Thanks,
Matt

[COBOLdinosaur]

It's the same link?????

I'm going to be optimizing for print when we go to genrated content.

I am also going to be asking some authors to consider guidelines that will make it easier to do db driven generation, and maintain content. 

Mind you not changes in presentation style, but more on the technical side in terms of how the code is tructured and how tags get used.

That may solve problems with whichever page it is you meant to put in those links.

[nicholassolutions]

Wow, that was stupid. http://www.expertsrt.com/articles/Matt/mysql-backup.html that's the page that was giving me trouble on linux

[COBOLdinosaur]

Yeah I thought it would be one of those.  That layout has a bunch of probblems on the pages where we use it.  Dzone thumbnails get screwed up and only show the background, and it does some strange things to CPU utilization in the latest Opera. As I recall we ahd to do some hacks to make it work right in IE6, and I don't know what it is going to do in IE7.

If you like the newer layout you are using, then when I start implementing the changes to suppoert dynamic generation, I will move all your stuff to your new layout and then you will have a consistent "this is Matt's stuff" look.  I going to be changing my 90s look to simpler look as well.

We all keep getting things better.  However the fact that we are generating good return teraffic even with less that perfect layouts proves that content rules over presentation.  Great look and style will not save weak content, but good content will carry just about anything.  USers don't come to ERT for pretty pages they come to get helpful content; and they get it.

Plus they have all been waiting to see my picture :^P

[GrandSchtroumpf]

I have that *funky* scrolling in FF on Windoze with my GF4-MX GPU.

Even a simple fixed background makes the scrolling a lot slower, like on this page:
http://www.expertsrt.com/articles/coral/Dumpster1.html

[VGR]

not that funky an effect (FX 1.5.0.7/Win2K/Voodoo3 2000 PCI) but there is indeed some slight "choking" when rendering the boxes against the background image. I wonder what would happen with an older computer. Note that I use a very old video card and didn't notice a meaningful problem when scrolling.