Apparently I, unknowingly, walked right past, without so much as a how-do-you-do. Oops.
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 9:19 PM on October 15, 2006

This?
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 2:02 PM on June 11, 2006

It'd be nice if we Opera users could get spellcheck, too.
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 9:41 PM on August 21, 2005

bugbread: Lush's link doesn't go to a thread, it goes to a set of search results (note, btw, how bloody fast their search engine is). It's not any coherent thing.

Wolfdog's link, on the other hand, is a post to the effect of "Don't be surprised that there haven't been many good posts here lately, since MetaFilter, our main source, is currently down. They say they'll be back up in a few hours."
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 7:53 PM on February 25, 2005

I'm expected to go into my MeFi settings and alter my font-size preferences every time I want to read a (admittedly, usually excellent) post from y2karl?

If you were using Opera as your web-browser, you could freely zoom MeFi (or any other site), just by holding down control and using your scroll wheel. Seriously - it makes running 1400x1050 on a 15" LCD bearable.

/Opera shill
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 10:46 PM on February 22, 2005

Um, kicking, that works on IE and Firefox as well, providing you're using XP.

You're right about FireFox (didn't know that, actually). Wrong about IE/XP however (IE will zoom text, but not if the size is definited in points, as it is on MeFi). For the record though - Opera will also zoom images, and even Flash. FireFox won't (at least not out-of-the-box).
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 11:23 PM on February 22, 2005

My question is this, how I can do this and not change the settings for all of the font on MeFi/MeTa/AskMe? I have IE/XP at work and (don't laugh) IE/98 at home. I will not be using Firefox or any other alternate browser even if oodles of people tell me to and it is undoubtedly in the best interest of the human race.Hmm...without testing this, I'm pretty sure something like this would work:

Create a blank document, paste the following line of css into it, and save it as... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 7:14 PM on February 23, 2005

My bad: make that line of css

div.copy small, div.comments small { font-size: 12pt !important;}

posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 7:17 PM on February 23, 2005

If they're related follow-up questions, I'm sure no one will mind. Ask away.
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 10:41 PM on February 22, 2005

Why not just hang a sign up saying "Sense of Humor Not Welcome."?

There's one at the bottom of every page.
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 1:26 PM on December 18, 2004

Congratulations(!), Matt.
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 12:24 AM on December 8, 2004

Threadless.com has been linked here several times and I was thinking about buying a shirt or two for the hell of it. Problem is the shirts say "do not wash" and I can not find any reference to that on the site. Are they going to fall apart if I wash them?

Yeah, that's just a joke of theirs. I actually emailed them a few months back to make sure - since I still consider the washing machine a mystical being of many mysteries. You can wash the shirts without fear.
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 5:46 PM on November 28, 2004

This comment was far, far worse.
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 1:48 PM on July 19, 2004

Aww, how cute.
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 8:04 PM on April 1, 2004

Is this "christmas" something I'd need a Dickens novel to know about?
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 7:44 PM on November 23, 2003

the creator is American

/deliberately misinterprets, and chuckles.
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 5:25 PM on November 17, 2003

I use google’s “I’m feeling Lucky” feature to navigate more quickly; that is, I usually type “g mefi” as an address instead of “www.metafilter.com.” Lately though, a google search for “mefi” doesn’t return the metafilter front page. Perhaps a friendly googlebombing is in order?
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 4:49 PM on November 5, 2003

HOLY FUCKING SHIT JUST TYPE IN METAFILTER

But that would take so long!
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 5:18 PM on November 5, 2003

Great thread.

Definitely the last time I post to MeTa as a way of putting off writing an english essay.

oh, and *cough* MeFi *cough*
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 11:21 PM on November 5, 2003

I hope Matt doesn't spare the thread just because people have put recipes in it.I disagree. It is a week post, but, for whatever reason, it succeeded in generating good discussion, which, at least to me, makes up (partially) for a weak fpp. Deleting it now would be wasteful.

Posts like this should be nipped in the bud. But once they've grown past that early stage, deleting them is counter-productive. fff does deserve some time in the corner, however,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 10:19 AM on October 12, 2003

Adding this to the style sheet should fix the problem.

html, body {padding:0;margin:0}
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 6:14 PM on September 11, 2002

No, I'm pretty sure it's a style sheet change, since the top navigation links don't have a hover style any more, either.

It looks like Matt is trying to make Mefi more standards-compliant (taking out the netscape attributes, and fixing some strange/wrong selectors in the css), which would be a good thing. However, it also looks like he forgot to test with Opera.
posted to MetaTalk by kickingtheground at 9:31 PM on September 11, 2002