A comment from Stan

Contributor, faithful reader and friend Gene Novogrodsky has pointed out that both the articles I’ve published today have not been readable on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. When I’ve gone back to look at them, I’ve found a longish piece of code that included an ‘if’ statement referring to Internet Explorer and pieces of a style sheet. When I stripped out the code, whump, the files published fine.

I’d used MS Word to prepare the text for both pieces then copied and pasted from there. I’d done many pieces this way, however, without errant code appearing. Another suspicion has to do with upgrading Mozilla Firefox to 3.0 this morning. Surely the code monkeys over that way would not do anything so malicious as trick exclusionary code into files written from Firefox.

Testing the second theory is the idea for this piece. We’ll see in a few minutes the results.

Meanwhile, my apologies to readers who may have had problems reading here. My aim is to make this site as easy to use as possible. I’ll be checking code on all files before publication and checking them on Internet Explorer afterwards.

Stay tuned.

–Stan