Goodbye Sweet Pandora…

It was great while it lasted, I couldn’t have made it through the last eight months of tedious work without you xox

Fixing Floating Column Drop (Firefox)

In a recent redesign of a site I’ve experienced the problem where (only in firefox) the right column of a two-column layout (within a container div) will drop even though I’ve ensured there is no overlap between the columns.

The trick to fixing this mysterious column drop is to amend the CSS for the containing div. Instead of setting it as

display:table;

Set the display as:

display:inline-table;

Here’s the relevant html code:

<div id="navigation">
<div class="navblock-left"><a href="cv.php">curriculum vitae</a></div>
<div class="navblock-right"><a href="portfolio.php">portfolio</a></div>
</div>

And here’s the CSS:

#navigation {display:inline-table; font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size:xx-small;}

.navblock-left {
background-color:#442200;
margin:5px 5px 5px 5px;
padding:20px 0 0 0;
text-align:center;
width:70px;
height:50px;
float:left;
font-size:x-small;
}

.navblock-right {
background-color:#442200;
margin:5px 5px 5px 5px;
padding:20px 0 0 0;
text-align:center;
width:70px;
height:50px;
float:right;
font-size:x-small;
}

I only experienced this error with firefox… and that seemed to fix it, without affecting the display in IE. Sweet.

Liblime Acquires Katipo’s Koha Division

I first saw this while browsing oss4lib…

Press release here: http://liblime.com/news-items/press-releases/liblime-to-acquire-katipo

Wow. Congrats to Katipo.

I’m super keen to get my hands on a working copy of Koha, because I’d love to have a look at it – unfortunately, I have had some problems installing a test version on my home server.

I’m convinced there’s room for Koha to be more widely used in (atleast) the special library market in New Zealand (home of myself, and Koha). Well, I’m convinced there’s room for another small library system in this market anyway, and with Government starting to make more serious noises about open source software, what better than Koha?

As far as I can tell, the NZ special library library system market currently consists of two products: DB Textworks/CS and… Liberty. (er, another software that was homebrewed until it got sold to an Australian company; the name of which I’ve temporarily forgotten). The latter has suffered I believe since it was sold to Australia (both in quality and support) and while I believe DB Textworks is a decent product, I still believe special libraries out there could do better!

I’d love to get a job like working at Liblime as a NZ representative… I was going to approach Katipo upon my return to NZ. So perhaps I’ll drop Liblime an email instead!