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 Saturday, June 7, 2003

I updated my Callout Box macro to version 0.91 yesterday to correct a minor typo.

The effect of this typo was to omit a space within a td tag making it read as follows:

<td bgcolor=#e4be04valign=top>

Note the missing space between the bgcolor attribute and the valign attribute. Interestingly, this typo caused no problems in IE 5.2 for Mac OS X which is my normal browser. It was only the day after I released the code, when I checked using IE on Windows and Netscape 7 on OS X that I noticed the problem. On both these browsers, the table cell background displayed as red instead of #e4be04 which is a dark yellow.

I know - I can hear you - I should have tested on multiple browsers before release but such are the vagaries of amateur software

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