The Fool Speaks True

The real question, however, is whether stripping down animation might not threaten the rest of the company. It might. Everything from theme parks to merchandising relies on a stream of fresh characters to cash in on. If Disney finds itself in a shoot out and someone yells, "Draw," the company may find one of its holsters empty.

-- The Motley Fool

Which makes the current backwards state of the Disney films (make a movie about the rides, rather than the other way around) all the more interesting...they'll run out of story-based rides sooner.

*sigh* -- oh well

Was thinking about going to Dream Theater tonite @ the 9:30 club, and had been thinking about it for weeks, but had the 1-2 punch of 1) spending lots o' money on a few other things (like dvds, cds, cyd's birthday, and wolfstone), and then 2) cyd being sick and us not knowing if it would be better off if i was home to help out when the energy drop happened.

well, by the time i decided that 1) wasn't going to hurt as much and 2) cyd would be ok, the concert sold out.

oh well. so i'll crank out the stuff all day (i've got 18 hours of them on mp3, not counting a cdrom full of audience-recorded bootlegs), look silly to my co-workers headbanging and air-guitaring to a laptop dockstation, and go home and chill.

they'll be back. They usually hit Pier 6 in the fall, after doing a 9:30 club show in the late-winter/early-spring like tonite. Then the next year they do a double-bill with some other metal/prog band that's usually a cool show too. i'll get around to it.

b'sides, i've been meaning to write an rss aggregator for weeks anyways, or i could start work on making dvds.

"style=mine"

Finding someone's LJ page (or comments page) to be to difficult to read 'cause of colors or fonts? Finding it even more difficult because some CSS entry yarfs up a mess in netscape 4.x?

well, you can make that page look like your own much more readable page very simply.

Go to the URL entry in the address bar at the top of your browser and add "?style=mine" or "&style=mine" (if there's already a ? in the url like "?mode=reply") to the end of it and hit return. you should see the page re-rendered to look like what your own settings are.

thus, to see my last entry, MY way, hit http://www.livejournal.com/users/acroyear70/102225.html and to see that entry YOUR way, hit http://www.livejournal.com/users/acroyear70/102225.html?style=mine

there's a way to make that "mostly" the default, by setting a config parameter in LJ somewhere, but i 1) can't find it, and 2) found it didn't work 100% of the time. it also doesn't work with any system pages like anything ending in .bml.

The way to set it is described in http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=175

On Netscape 4.x and the Stylesheets of LJ's S2 Layout Engine:

Now I don't want to get into a rant here, but neither IE NOR Netscape follow the standards correctly. I support the standards, and also respect that one must move forwards in capabilities or be left behind by those that do. The browser wars were supposed to be about standards. Tragically, Netscape 1) lost the war and 2) didn't have a stable-enough code base to be fixed via open source methods (particularly when required 3rd party stuff was removed, leaving a lot of gaping functionality holes).

Thus, Mozilla had to basically start over w/ the new layout engine, Gecko. Newer *IS* better in this case, both in the Mac world and in the standards-based browsing world.

The style sheets are NOT poorly formated. They are perfectly legit to the standard; i ran 'em through a validator. That Netscape for doesn't (and will never) support the standard is neither our fault, nor LJs. That Netscape freezes or crashes as a result is certainly not our fault.

One can always try to go into the netscape configuration options dialog and turn off stylesheets. Netscape 4 allowed that, at least for windows/linux, though the resultant look was often horid and even more unreadable. The other option, seeing if the right-mouse-button menu had a "copy link location" (which it does in IE and Mozilla) isn't an option for OS 9 since Macs don't have that right mouse button to start with (and thus, most mac apps don't have those menus even for the macs with 2-button mice).

Mozilla as "newest and greatest" it most certainly isn't. Html 4.0 and CSS 2.0 are *3 years old*. Netscape 4.x is technically now 5 years old and 5 years abandoned. No bug fixes or functionality fixes have been done in ANY Netscape 4 release since 4.6. The only reason ANY release after 4.6 happened is to fix security issues to keep the feds (who'd committed to Netscape for a solution back in the 3.x days) from complaining. That's it. No other bugs like the multitude of CSS problems have ever been fixed in a Netscape 4 release since 4.6 over 5 years ago.

So no, I have no intention any more of crippling my stuff to work with a product that has been abandoned by its owners for half a decade.

The world moves on.