One of these things is not like the other...
patrick — Tue, 2007-04-03 11:56
Welcome to another edition of "What can go wrong in web design"... or "My Little Opera Rant".
I dislike table layouts... I've said that before right? I didn't set up the initial page layout on this current project I'm on... I've been trying to work around the table design until I can get around to fixing it with something that will work across the board... Somebody designed a great tab system that utilizes nested divs, javascript, & css that displays only certain information at a time - hiding & showing portions of the page depending upon which tab is clicked therefore limiting the scrolling on the page... & it works great... most of the time.
Today I've been working on a page that requires both the left column to show up & uses the tab system. Currently I only have information for the form that appears on the first tab so the next 2 tabs simply have a short dummy set. According to "The Style Guide", the left column (the menu) is supposed to be 130px wide which it is... at least as long as the initial tab is selected. As soon as I click the 2nd or 3rd tabs *in Opera* & only on this particular page so far does it decide that the "width: 130px !important" rule on the left column no longer applies.
The left column suddenly snaps to 222px wide... WTH? The weird thing is this only happens in Opera. I tested Firefox, IE, Opera, & Swift. Oddly enough - Firefox, IE, & Swift all have the same behaviour - the left column stays at 130px no matter which tab I click on... Grrr... WTH is up with Opera?
Initial build I tried this on was Opera v 9.10 build 8679 for WinXP. It's been bugging me about there being a new version available so I figured I'd download it & see if it fixed this issue... Hmm... now I have Opera v 9.00 build 8502 for WinXP... Does Opera go backwards in it's build numbers?? Out of curiousity I start typing "opera.com" into opera to see if opera had a url for new downloads - sure enough, browser history had "http://www.opera.com/download/" so I headed there & it says Opera 9.10 is the newest version - um, shouldn't this say the same as the front page?? So I clicked the download button, install this "new" version of Opera, go to Help->About Opera & guess what version I have! Opera v 9.10 build 8679 for WinXP.... *sigh*
Oh well... I did discover that Opera has a new preview release - 9.20b.
