Once again, Safari makes the world look better.
So, if you’ve been reading this blog much, you’ve undoubtedly been noticing its completely lack luster performance. I’ve been trying to isolate the problem, and frankly I’ve been getting frustrated enough that I’ve considered just writing my own blogging software that merely shares Typo’s database back end.
Instead of doing that, I noticed that despite updates to the software on my system, I was still running an old version of Typo. It turns out you have to explicitly upgrade each deployment of Typo (not necessarily a bad thing). As always, there is an easy way to do this…. and it didn’t work for me (probably PEBKAC, but nonetheless frustrating). Anyway, after several false starts, I managed to upgrade to Typo 4.1.1.
There are a number of improvements that have come with upgrade that look to make life better on xblog. Oddly though, the new theming seems to be completely broken –except for on Safari. Yup, if you are looking at this with anything other than Safari (actually, I haven’t tested with Opera yet), you are probably seeing a pretty ugly looking site. Firefox shows the site as broken on Linux, Mac, and Windows. IE7 looks the same.
I haven’t diagnosed the how and the why behind all this, because I’ve been stunned by the downright awesomeness of this. The problem seems likely related to stylesheets, but for the life of me I am trying to figure out what is so different about my setup from a typical Typo configuration, and more importantly just look in awe at Safari.