Good news for some, anyway

Submitted by Prometheus 6 on June 1, 2004 - 1:34pm.
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The first fruit of my CSS experiments has been installed on P6. A small tweak of the CSS so that the columns are absolutely positioned. This lets me rearrange the pages so that the content comes first and then the columns.

This is important for the folks overseas who (for some reason I don't really grasp) read P6 through Google's and Babelfish's translation tools. See, there's an actual maximum amount of text they process and I was letting it waste a lot of time on the sidebars. Text-to-speech processing would have the same problem.

I can still overwhelm a single translating session with a single post. But I can get in some pretty good stuff, too. I intend to make my Public Library project fully accessible, and P6 will probably inherit most of that.