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I am not one to get annoyed easily. However today I spent an hour trying to figure out why my web template for my profiles section worked fine in every browser apart from IE. Now clearly I understand IE has issues and doesn’t like real code and over the years I have been quite understanding that Microsoft write bad web browsers that do not work with correct code. However today I found a new bug that I had not encountered before. By having two div’s floated left, the last letter of the text in the right most div was repeated by IE outside the div on a new line for no reason at all. My code after much checking was perfect. This baffled me for sometime. I then very luckily found that if you provide a comment before hand eg:

<!– Include other stuff –>
<div id=”profileColHolder”>
<div id=”profileThinColumn”>
<p>thiin</p>
</div>
<div id=”profileThickColumn”>
<p>thick</p>
</div>
</div>

This will cause IE to produce:

<!– Include other stuff –>
<div id=”profileColHolder”>
<div id=”profileThinColumn”>
<p>thiin</p>
</div>
<div id=”profileThickColumn”>
<p>thick</p>
</div>
</div>
k

Notice the k on the end for no reason at all. All I had to do was remove the leading comment so that it looked like this:

<div id=”profileColHolder”>
<div id=”profileThinColumn”>
<p>thiin</p>
</div>
<div id=”profileThickColumn”>
<p>thick</p>
</div>
</div>

And now the extra k has gone. Now forgive me for being slightly annoyed but why on earth can I not put comments in my code!? They are supposed to be IGNORED anyways! This is just plain stupid. Someone needs to invent Double Glazing and put Microsoft Windows out of business by fixing all the annoying bugs they have.

OK so I got distracted and persuaded myself that for this project it would be a good idea to invest in a brand new server. So I got a VPS for just £10 a month! w00t! happy days. Much faster now than the piece of crap I had before and the beauty of it is it comes with nothing but the OS installed so I can FULLY customize every aspect I desire. Thus today I had much fun installing all the essentials such as a web server, and also a live streaming music server just because I could ^^. Happy days. I highly recommend my hosting company http://www.slicehost.com/

Hi guys,

Just writing my first entry to test my bloggage. Allan sent me a cool page:

http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/02/what_illusions_tell_us_about_t.php

Woot!