When is a pop-up not a pop-up?

When it's the Snap Shots widget, of course. After 12 hours of having previews coming at me whether I liked it or not--even my post-edit link had a preview!--I just had to remove it. It was either that or make sure to keep my mouse along the margins most of the time.[1]As easy as keeping your arms stuck to your sides while typing. Snap Shots is a good idea but an even better if they put a toggle for it.

So, no more previews, nifty or otherwise.

But there's something better. I now have a pseudo-footnotes all-CSS thingy for my little digressions/elaborations.[2]During my research, it seemed that most people didn't get the point of footnotes. I didn't want to link to anything else online and the regular tooltip wouldn't stay put long enough for my purpose. Almost all of the possible solutions were javascript and, once upon a time, when Blogger was still young, I would've just tacked one on any old where. But I'm stuck with their newfangled system for now and CSS is much much nicer, anyway.

Things to fix: The span gets cut off when it hits the main wrapper edges. Also, it only works on Firefox and IE. For all my tweaking, Opera doesn't want to have anything to do with it. I don't think it's Opera's fault, though--more like something in the Blogger code. Maybe I'll be able to hunt the problem down later but, for now, I'm a bit too tired to please all browsers (even as a matter of principle).

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UPDATE: Re the Opera-footnotes problem, oddly enough, it works now. But only for this post (and hereafter, I expect). It still doesn't work on the earlier ones. Hmmm.

CSS horror

Last night, I checked into my Multiply account--I belong, sheepishly, to at least five social networking sites--and found one of my pet CSS peeves. The overlapping text is due to static widths and ruins even the most gorgeous CSS layouts. (It doesn't happen with tables and is ugly in all browsers and resolutions.) To avoid this, names should be kept as short as possible. "umbrella+sewingmachine" would have occupied two boxes with nothing but an oops for my right-door neighbor. But it IS a problem when design doesn't work with content like this.

Browser alert: Acronyms

Firefox 1.5 and IEs 5 and 6 support the acronym tag properly. Opera 9.2, however, glitches by transforming the text into smallcaps (not even consistently) and displaying the title attribute. I checked my CSS and there's nothing to be umbrageous about. Hmmm... Must think of other thingummies to test.

CSS CSC

How did we get to the point where it feels like we have to apologize for using tables or--gasp!--frames?

There are different kinds of websites and I still think that you don't need a swiss army knife just to pick your teeth. The portfolio site I'm almost done making isn't "dynamic" (in the sense of having to be updated every other day) so why should I feel guilty about not using an all-CSS php CMS?