Using the "tidy online" at validator.w3.org gives me no help; likewise the command-line implementation of "tidy" on Panix. The problem with all these validators and all this XHTML purism is that they all tell you you have 900 errors. But I don't give a damn about my 900 departures from pure fresh organic mountain-grown XHTML purity, I want to know which ONE SINGLE ERROR is suddenly breaking my damn web page, the one that wasn't broken yesterday. MT's default templates are riddled with broken XHTML, but most MT blogs render in all browsers. Making Light currently doesn't. That's our problem.

Sorry, I don't mean to be crabby, but I am moderately desperate not to get into the thickets of the standard-issue everybody-is-using-bad-XHTML-so-it's-your-fault argument.

http://www.innocence.com/~durrell/temp

would work better.

I don't mean to get you into the XHTML argument, either. I know it's frustrating and I personally don't particularly care if my pages are pure or not. Sorry. :(

Anyway, I don't see a missing { in #links, but the one in .date could just be throwing other random things off.

Based on this, I would guess that there might be a bad declaration in T's sidebar CSS rule, but I don't know enough about CSS to figure out what it might be. So consider this just an attempt at a clue, hoping it might focus someone more knowledgeable on the actual problem area.

Btw, dates are in non-default font in Safari for me now, about ten minutes before noon.

Now here's the odd bit, and what made it a little difficult to figure out what was going on: when I downloaded the CSS file ten minutes ago, the curly brace was there, but now it's gone. Did you fix it in the "deployed" copy and then overwrite it again with a broken version from the templates directory?

This is making me a touch anxious. How could this have happened, if none of the three people with access to the site did anything?

Bob Webber: That note from Dave Hyatt was what set off my day. Fixing the broken declaration in the banner rule was what fixed Electrolite entirely. For Making Light, it seems to have fixed the banner, at the cost of making the sidebar vanish.

Maybe the elf who semi-fixed the date will fix the sidebar, too.

Oh, good.

Welcome to my world. Granted, it's usually things spontaneously *breaking*, rather than fixing themselves, but that's been known to happen. This also seems apropos.

I'll try the cache thing later. I usually turn my cache off, though...

The sidebar's there in Safari - it's just way down at the bottom of the page.

It's been like that, I think, since Safari b2 came out.

I think I've submitted the page as a Safari bug.

MKK

Safari Beta 2 doesn't consider a division closed until all nested elements within it are closed. I'm not certain if this is a bug or not, but I'm reducing it to a test case to send in, so Apple can decide what to do.

Sorry about that.

MKK, what you see on Electrolite isn't so much a bug as an artifact of the fact that I've posted very little for the past three weeks.

I'd been having problems seeing Teresa's sidebar for a while -- probably in Sarari beta 1.

It's back now though.

I've seen this problem before at Matt Yglesias's site, but I don't know how he fixed it, or if he was even aware of it.

When Patrick gets to a point where he's merely far behind, I'm sure he'll post a bunch of stuff, and thus, fix the problem.