textualdeviance: (Brenda)
textualdeviance ([personal profile] textualdeviance) wrote2006-10-13 02:05 am
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Made me smile

Long night editing. Very tired and heading to bed momentarily.

I did want to share this, though. Some of the stuff we print is actually kind of bad, a lot of it is mediocre-to-good, and some writers are definitely ahead of the curve. But occasionally, we get real gems.

This is one of them.

There are a few holes in the way he uses sources, but his writing structure and sense of style are very strong. That's the kind of thing you can't teach. Quirks of grammar and journalistic style can be learned (not that he's deficient there--he isn't.) but a great sense of timing and flow for the written word just can't, and therefore stuff like this always impresses me. I hope he sticks with this path.

[identity profile] monkey5s.livejournal.com 2006-10-13 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. I actually couldn't read this- simply because that left-hand sidebar covered the edge of the written article. The stuff below, about blog this article, was layered on top of the left-hand sidebar, but the actual article appears to be the bottom layer. Is there any way to make the text adjust to accomodate a narrower window? Or is there no way to set layers that way?

[identity profile] textualdeviance.livejournal.com 2006-10-13 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Were you using Safari?

There's a known bug in the way Safari handles our site (I don't know what part of it it doesn't like--I've been digging for that.) AFAIK, all other browsers work fine.

[identity profile] monkey5s.livejournal.com 2006-10-13 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Never mind my previous post, it must be this browser here at work. I say this because I just had to retrieve IRS forms for a patron (I work at a small library in Ohio) and I had the same experience- the left-side bar of the IRS site covered the edge of the active part of the directory, where I needed to be able to read the links. ::sigh::

[identity profile] textualdeviance.livejournal.com 2006-10-13 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep, that sounds like the Safari bug. I've seen it on other pages, too.

[identity profile] monkey5s.livejournal.com 2006-10-13 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
This browser is Opera, which usually has issues with Flash and the occasional Java weirdness. Never had it do this before, I'm really bummed!

[identity profile] textualdeviance.livejournal.com 2006-10-13 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, good to know. I'm doing a redesign of the site, and I want to make sure there are no issues in any browser.