Kubrick and Firefox 1.1 Alpha

Kubrick used to have this same exact bug in IE. I believe it’s been fixed, though. And as far as the bug shows up in Firefox 1.1 alpha, which one is need to be fixed: firefox or kubrick?

I’m not gonna help you, btw; won’t bother with alpha software. Likely, none will help you either.

yeap i would revert back to a stable, non-test release of FF otherwise you will likely see a lot of “bugs” from pags that porbbaly don’t have bugs. It’s alpha, there’s bound to be some issues

No problem. I just thought there might be an obvious fix. I’m not too worried about it for now since not many people are using Deer Park. If the issue persists I’m sure it’ll get worked out one way or the other since it affects all Kubrick sites. You should note, though, that the version of Gecko in Deer Park is in beta so it’s thought to be pretty stable.

plucky: I noticed this recently, too. The problem actually resides in the themes CSS file (style.css). Look in the “Begin Structure” section of the file for:


#footer {
padding: 0 0 0 1px;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 760px;
clear: both;
}


Simply remove or change the ‘padding’ line to read:


padding: 0;


That did the trick for me.

It’s an obvious rendering bug, which is something common in alpha/beta browser releases. You should report the bug through Bugzilla so that it will not be included in the final v1.1 release.

Thanks, gruv!
Your fix worked great in the Firefox DP. Unfortunately, it created the reverse problem in IE — the footer was shifted one pixel to the left. ??

Maybe the footer padding was part of the hack to fix the Kubrick-IE bug mentioned above? Ah, well. If I get some spare time, I’ll file a moz bug on this issue…

plucky you’re fixing a visual bug for an alpha/beta release of the browser. I would suggest you first confirm this as bug in the theme by providing a link to your site so that anyone using a stable release of FF can confirm that it is indeed a theme bug, or if it’s simply your browser. It will at least confirm one way or the other – once you have it confirmed, then try to fix it, otherwise you may be fixing a bug that doesn’t exist

EDIT: The above 2 posts snuck in as I was writing mine.

Actually, this “problem” lies with the Kubrick theme. Apparently, a “fix” was incorporated to accomodate Internet Explorer, but compliant browsers (like Firefox) appear as though they’re rendering it incorrectly.

If you look at any WordPress install that uses Kubrick as the theme, the footer is misaligned by 1 pixel (except in IE). This is due to the ‘padding: 0 0 0 1px;’ line in the style.css file for that theme. It adds a 1 pixel pad to the left side of the footer, causing it to appear as shown in the image above. Since I’m using Firefox now (v1.0.4), and I prefer standards compliance, I’ve modified my style.css to remove the padding. Now my IE users see a misalignment, but everything looks hunky-dory to me! ??

gruv, interesting to have your datapoint. I just tested boren.nu with IE, Firefox 1.0.4, and Firefox 1.1 Alpha1. The only one I saw the issue with was with FF 1.1a. Are you really seeing it with FF 1.0.4? If so, something seriously odd is going on here. Hrmmm….

Jinsan, I haven’t posted my site because the issue I’m seeing is with all Kubrick 1.5 installs. I haven’t seen a bug on the mozilla side representing this so if we want it fixed by the time FF 1.1 ships, action needs to be taken. What I’m doing here is trying to collect information about the nature of the problem since I don’t know css very well.

plucky: When I visit boren.nu using the Firefox 1.0.4 browser, the footer is off by 1 pixel. Reviewing the CSS, I see that there IS a padding value for the footer that is causing that misalignment.

When I use IE 6 to view boren.nu, everything looks aligned properly. I don’t have the latest Firefox alpha installed, and I’m not very trusting of early software builds anyway.

I may not have been very clear in my previous post, but I suspect you will please either the IE visitors, or any other visitor, depending on if you leave the padding line in or remove it.

I don’t have other web browsers installed to do further tests, but I am curious how others render that theme.

Also, I don’t think this can be classified as a “bug” in relation to the browser you are using or the theme that’s being used. It’s simply one of the consequences of having a multitude of web browsers and individuals with differing preferences that causes designers to include checks and balances to accomodate all of the possibilities.

*whew*, that was too wordy for a Monday… ??

Why do you care, Kubrick 2 is comming out really soon, infact my current theme is based off K2 (heavily modified). Binary Bonsai is actually more of what K2 will look like.

@gruv: I have Firefox 1.0.4 and boren.nu is pixel perfect.

alphaoide: Now that’s truly perplexing…

hey, gurv. Like alphaoide, I don’t see the problem with Firefox 1.0.4. Can you take a look at your Firefox about box and see what your version string is? For 1.0.4, the string should look roughly like this…

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

I also have Firefox 1.0.4 and boren.nu is pixel perfect for me as well.