Welcome to the beta of the new saila.com. Send in your bugs.
Fixing the site
Some observations about fixing the site after it’s redesign…
Spent some time fixing up some of the surprisingly minor problems (mainly in Opera and IE 5 for the Mac).
Opera problems were related to version 6’s ability—apparently—to report true when testing for document.createElement and document.getElementsById even though its support is non-existent and pathetic, respectively.
The Macintosh problems were, and are, something different. Despite decent DOM support, the browser threw up an error every time I tried to set an input’s type via the DOM. Ended up using button—an element I’d never before used. (BTW, IE 5/Mac doesn’t behave any better with button, but at least there is a button.)
Problem with that was IE for Windows displays both the value and the contents of the button’s child resulting in buttons reading “sendsend” when this code is used: <button value="send">send</button>
But leaving out the child text created an empty button in Mozilla and IE 5/Mac. I’ll be adding these “discoveries” to the Web Building Tips section soon.
One problem remains with the Macintosh version of the Email Page function under the Tools (
) menu: only first of the two buttons (“send” and “cancel”) will appear at a time.