IE7 Bugs List
Design Detector has an awesome article which details the problems faced by IE7. I’ve pointed out font problems that I encountered myself, but the real sticker is that IE7 doesn’t feel sleek, new, or awesome. It’s better than IE6, but it still lags way behind firefox in terms of general usefullness. Why are people going to use Microsoft’s browser when it doesn’t perform better than Firefox?
Ideal Bedtime Snack
My habit seems to be to enjoy a glass of wine before I roll into bed, with a book. Right now I’m reading a book in which the author appears in character as himself, which is quite distressing. Even worse, he writes about his fictional character as him through the hindsight of fame, but before he (in this world) became famous. The final straw is that he suggests that works of fiction are real narratives dictating life and events in other worlds. This distresses my free will, and so I sip Pouilly Fuisse.
Inlined CSS / Javascript WP Plugin
Disclaimer: Don’t use this plugin if you don’t use a caching product. It won’t work well for you, because you don’t care about performance on this fine grain. Using this plugin will hurt your page load time, because it does a large mess of string processing to spit optimized css and javascript into the page itself–processing usually defered to the browser.
WP-CSS-JS-Inline does exactly what the graphic says–takes all the javascript and css styles and merges them into your page, producing a single document. External references in the CSS–say a url(…) element–are resolved automatically to absolute paths if they are not already. It also compresses and tidies CSS.
If you’d like to try it out, just download wp-css-js-inline.zip, unzip, and place into your wp-plugins directory. You can then activate it on your admin page, and watch it work its magic on your posts and home page.
This is an untested beta release and may render your wordpress install completely unusable. Proceed with caution, and leave comments on this post if you find any bugs!