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Don't Call it a Banner

July 26, 2006

Here's something that was plaguing me for months: I couldn't figure out why my header image wasn't showing up in Safari on all my macs - it looked fine in Firefox for mac or any PC browser for that matter. Even other macs seemed to deal with it fine... it was just all the macs that I owned with the problem. I figured something was messing with a user-stylesheet that was overriding id="header" so that it was display:none; but I couldn't figure out where it was. I saw it on a number of other pages that used id="header" but I quickly forgot about it since I was the only one seeing the issue and I was neglecting my blog anyways. Finally something clicked today when I was looking at the new TypePad homepage today (which looks awesome), it was id="banner", often effectively the same as id="header" on default MT/TP templates unless you're doing special things with your header content, that wasn't showing up. Long-webbed gears started turning as I realized that "banner" is a common word used to describe advertising formats. Saft, a really useful Safari plugin, has a feature called "URL Match Pattern" under the "Ad Blocker" tab which was horribly misnamed as it was also display:hidden;ing anything with the id of "banner." I'll remove the id from my template eventually but removing the "banner" rule from my personal Saft install at least fixes my problem.

Nick O'Neill

 

 

 

 

 

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