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Rendering issue in Basic Maths with Google Chrome

Nov 14, ’11 9:08 PM

Basic Maths, the WordPress theme I use on this site, seems to have developed a rendering problem in Google Chrome. The problem is only present in Chrome, and not Safari, so it’s not a WebKit issue, and Gecko in Firefox doesn’t exhibit the problem either.

You can see the issue on any individual post page, such as this one from the demo site:

Basic Maths post page rendering in Chrome 17.0.932.0 on Mac OS X 10.6.8

Basic Maths post page rendering in Firefox 5.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.8

Notice how the borders at the top and bottom of the meta box overrun the first sidebar column in Chrome.

Not being a CSS wizard, I’m not in a good position to derive a minimal test case from the theme’s CSS, and I can’t say precisely when the issue first appeared in Chrome, either (although I will say that I run the Chrome dev version). I know this makes for a bad bug report, but I figure it’s better than nothing to document the issue publicly. The issue doesn’t seem to be specific to certain Basic Maths installations, either; both this site and the demo site, as well as others I’ve come across online, are similarly affected in Chrome.

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Air and Space

Nov 14, ’11 8:44 PM

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Software package updates

Jan 26, ’11 11:51 AM

Last night, I uploaded two of my Python packages, pyRFC3339 and geolucidate, to PyPI. I have also uploaded documentation for pyRFC3339 to PyPI. Documentation for geolucidate will be forthcoming, as soon as I actually finish it.

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Announcing Raschke on Transport

Jan 20, ’11 2:01 PM

There have recently been a lot of posts here about issues in transportation, and while I do have a lot to say about transportation, it has started to drown out the technology content on this site. Accordingly, I’ve decided to launch a new site, Raschke on Transport. I’ve moved several posts from here over there (existing links will be redirected automatically), and moving forward I’ll continue writing about transportation at the new site, while keeping posts on technology and other topics here.

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Help me out by taking a brief survey!

Oct 2, ’10 11:08 AM

This semester, I’m taking a course in user research and usability testing at the University of Maryland. One of the requirements for the course is to complete a group project involving a usability study of an existing product. My group is studying Google Docs, and I am conducting a survey on Google Docs and issues surrounding web-based word processing and spreadsheet software. I’d appreciate it if you would take the survey; participation is entirely voluntary, and you will not be identified by your responses. The survey is brief, and shouldn’t take more than a few minutes of your time. You can help even if you don’t use Google Docs.

Update: The survey is now closed; thanks to everyone who participated! Your responses were very helpful.

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