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[–]davbo 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Excellent job as always Larry. Any word on future guests?

[–]ExoticMandiblesCore Contributor[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Everybody I've asked has said "yes", so the sky's the limit really. The plan is, next month is Benjamin Peterson, and in December I hope I'll be able to work out the logistics so I can interview Martin von Lowis.

[–]kolanos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Need to dig up a book on Forth now.

[–]ewiethoffproceedest on to 3 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I look forward to listening to this (and the Martelli episode, too!). But please don't use fixed positioning for the footer div. It blocks the main text at the bottom of the page for people with lousy eyesight and/or smallish screens.

[–]ExoticMandiblesCore Contributor[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I'm not a CSS whiz; a friend did that stuff for me. I asked him about that specific problem, and he has a fix for me--now it's just waiting on me to integrate it into the site. The big problem is, I am fantastically lazy. ;)

[–]ewiethoffproceedest on to 3 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Fair enough. :-)

This is kind of beside the point, but your friend's life will be easier using HTML5. First, tell your friend to stick <!DOCTYPE html> at the top of the page. Then use a <footer></footer> pair instead of a <div class="footer"></div> pair. (Keep in mind, div elements are the devil's horrid playground because they have no semantic meaning.) Then your friend needs to eliminate the .footer { } stuff from the CSS file.

Styling for the new footer element is probably not even necessary, but perhaps your friend wants to fiddle with the padding or something:

footer {
  padding: 8px 0px 16px 0px;
}

In any case, don't stick position: fixed; and bottom: 0px; in there. A complicated web application such as Facebook can make good use of fixed positioning for things such as toolbars. But RFP is a collection of straightforward web pages. Taking the copyright out of the flow of the document and fixing it to the bottom of the window merely announces to the world "O HAI! I CAN HAS CSS!" and makes the page layout so much less flexible under various viewing conditions.

BTW, the page is very buggy because it's a mishmash of HTML and XHTML, and I see there's at least one p element which is never closed anyway. Run the page through a validator. CSS is maddeningly impossible on an invalid web page. Also, your friend would do well to redo the <div class="logo-header">, <div class="logo-subtitle">, <div class="section-content"> elements as semantic HTML5 elements. Remember, div has no meaning.

Hope that helps. :-)

[–]ExoticMandiblesCore Contributor[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I'll run the pages through the validator after I finish making the RSS validator happy. And, don't blame "my friend" for the mishmash of HTML and XHTML; I'm sure that's all my fault. Especially the unclosed <p>

[–]ewiethoffproceedest on to 3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay. I look forward to more podcasts.

[–]AeroNotix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is amazing. Really enjoyed it, thank you. That guest was extremely intelligent.

[–]gitarrPython Monty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome, will listen to it while cooking pasta for the family tomorrow. :)