A question. Oh, and parentheses gone wild.

As part of a fiendish plot to share my newfound Within Temptation addiction (prompted by a comment conversation (and why isn't there a neologism for that?!) with maggiebloome (who may (or may not) approve of these (ridiculously!) nested parentheses) in a post somewhere), I earlier embarked on a short quest to find Within Temptation content on the Webbernets, which turned up two clips on YouTube, being:

Ice Queen, and

Memories

So! The question here is this: do any of you have links to more stuff?

Minifootnotes

So, I'm at a bit of an interesting step in developing my layout XHTML. In case it's not immediately obvious, the two things I want to take care of with the generated XHTML are that it's easy to style without ever needing to change more than one or two things, and that the code degrades gracefully.

The flexibility is easy enough to build in; you use neat, tidy, minimalist XHTML, with some places built in for fun effects. Then, you write out the S2 so that all the functions that generate the page display are happily decoupled. If people want to change, say, the order of the metadata, they shouldn't need to change the whole function that writes the entries. Further to this, the whole thing is designed as a liquid layout, because it's far easier to make a liquid layout static than it is to go the other way.

With regards to degrading gracefully, I'm not entirely certain how best to linearise the entries (ie, arrange the code so that old/broken/portable/spoken word/other browsers can read the text in a sensible order, and then pushing things back into place with styles for users with modern desktop browsers). Which is why I'm posting this, because that gives me access to the minds of over a hundred users of the Webbernets (plus anyone else who swaggers on over to read the entry).

My current thinking for entry code runs along the lines of... ( Cut for gratuitous HTML source )

So, yes. fun all over. I'd monospace the code snippets in the minifootnote box, but that's more effort than it's worth. Also, you can see an interesting behaviour from the minifootnotes: IE will render the numbers inside the lines, and Firefox will render the numbers outside. I'm not sure how IE7 does it, but footnotes-inside comes from a valid-but-different reading of the spec, so it's not as evil as it could be. With my current layout (itself a fork of Flexible Squares), apparently they both render the same.