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New theme! Again!

.. figure :: http://blog.opensourcenerd.com/upload/hooray-cat

Now, kudos where they're due: the layout ideas, and general background
are the ideas of the "Chris" who posted on my last blog. Chris Haseler
is the younger brother of a friend of mine, and has actually made a
`pretty swanky blog`_ for himself. Sadly, his AJAX comment submission
is currently broken, and he hasn't gotten around to posting much
meaningful content, but he's got a good eye for web design... in my
humble opinion.

.. _`pretty swanky blog`: http://blog.haselerstudios.com

So, now, comments on the new style? Turns out when I mentioned CSS3 is
slow, I mostly meant the ``box-shadow`` and ``text-shadow``
properties. Rounded colors and RGBA colors are shiny and don't take
that much processing. That being said, the site is currently supported
in:

- Firefox 3.5

... Yes, that's it. It sort of sucks, but I seem to have make a few
bad decisions while coding, and I have the following bugs:

- Google Chrome (dev branch)

 - The back and forwards arrows aren't lined up with each other.
 - Some rounded edges don't appear where they appear in Firefox.

- Safari 4

 - Does not seem to support the ``String.trim()``
   function. This is causing my Javascript to crash, and the left
   pane isn't being hidden properly.
 - Some rounded edges don't appear where they appear in Firefox.

- Opera 10

 - Does not seem to support the ``String.trim()``
   function. This is causing my Javascript to crash, and the left
   pane isn't being hidden properly.
 - **No** rounded edges appear -- that's new. It might be just
   Opera's support for them being odd, because they are omitted even
   where I have ``-o-border-radius``.

- IE 8

 - Does not support rounded edges.
 - Does not support ``String.trim()`` so left pane is not hidden.
 - Does not support floating like the others, so top tabs are broken.
 - Does not support RGBA colors (color + transparency) so some
   semi-transparent areas are fully transparent.
 - ReCAPTCHA input is broken - I didn't even *touch* that one.
 - Do you see all those "does not support" things above? They mean
   one thing: **IE Sucks**. If you are still viewing my website with
   it, `upgrade to something better <http://getfirefox.com>`__.

So yeah, I will be fixing all of these as time goes on. All except the
IE stuff, where I may make some form of compromise, maybe to just
plain readability.

Not a moment too soon, either, since I have some things which I am
itching to write about!