http://www.tidbits.com/ Plagued by the appearance of pure white Web sidebars that should have been grey, Steve McCabe turns to TidBITS Talk for the solution, which stems from an unexpected setting in the Universal Access preference pane. en-us Copyright 2010 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:46:40 PST Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:46:40 PST editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) http://www.tidbits.com/images/tb_logo_152x55.png http://www.tidbits.com/ 55 152 TidBITS badge http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962?rss#comments_3013 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:46:40 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962#comments_3013 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962?rss#comments_3012 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:35:36 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962#comments_3012 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962?rss#comments_3011 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:29:47 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962#comments_3011
Remaining errors are also syntactical. You have a list item, followed by a closing list tag ... but no opening ul (unordered list) tag. Add the on the line above the and fixed.

You have an anchor tag (), inside an open line break tag (
- sic). Change the
to proper xhtml:
and it's fixed.

Oh, and in your sidebar table on the right hand side? lose the mdashes in the phrases like beginner%u2013intermediate. It's improper English%u2013those dashes are for mid-sentence, related phrases%u2013and it'll save you having to edit them as properly-encoded entities, like this: —

if you need a hand or followup, give me a shout.
]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962?rss#comments_2990 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:22:16 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962#comments_2990 Aside from being from the US, I attribute my use of "gray" to my high school choir director, Jerry Gray, who insisted (in good humor) there was only one spelling of the word, and that was with an "a".]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962?rss#comments_2972 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:16:50 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962#comments_2972 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962?rss#comments_2802 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:59:41 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962#comments_2802 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962?rss#comments_2793 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:54:07 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962#comments_2793
Despite the rolling canonisation of the Blessed Steve of Cupertino, he, and the rest, are only human, and so there is nothing magical about the iPad. It'll be flawed. Things will just work, but only until they don't work -- or, more likely, until they exhibit some odd, unexpected behaviour that will have one stroking ones beard and pondering. My iPhone, for example, inexplicably sorts my iTunes U lectures in what appears to be a random order. For the most part, the Phone just works; but then, sometimes, it doesn't.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962?rss#comments_2789 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:03:01 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962#comments_2789 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962?rss#comments_2785 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:23:50 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962#comments_2785 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962?rss#comments_2778 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:18:23 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962#comments_2778
Tip: Disable all those universal access keyboard shortcuts. It only takes a couple minutes.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962?rss#comments_2777 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:51:58 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962#comments_2777 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962?rss#comments_2774 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:11:04 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962#comments_2774 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962?rss#comments_2773 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:22:22 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10962#comments_2773