2.51 here I come
“Version 2.51 of Movable Type is now released. This is primarily a bug fix release.”
That’s the one I’ve been waiting for. I installed it at my new host this afternoon. I’m always amazed (and grateful) there’s no shortage of people willing to install a major upgrade. Even with a piece of software as solid and reliable as Movable Type, I prefer to wait for the +0.01 update. I suppose this means I’m relying on others to sort out any problems on my behalf but I guess the tradeoff is that they get the thrill of early adoption.
Now I’ve settled down to modifying the default templates and style sheet, which incorporate a range of accessibility enhancements based on Mark Pilgrim’s 30 Days to a More Accessible Weblog. There’s a new style sheet, called Clean, that resembles my current design—instead of using float: left for the content <div> like all the other templates, Clean uses position: absolute to put the content on the right.
It’ll be interesting to see how many modifications I need to make—noticably absent from the style sheet is any use of Tantek Çelik’s (ugly brilliant) Box Model Hack, which I use to ensure that IE5/Win rends the width of my links <div> correctly and to compensate for IE5/Win’s off-by-1 bug with font size keywords. It’s an understandable omission since the borderless links <div> masks the CSS box bug and first-time MT users might find the CSS incomprehensible anyway. Experienced users can either roll their own code or use a layout like this BlueRobot one for positioning and Mark Pilgrim’s code for the text.
I’m thinking I might try the Simplified Box Model Hack, to reduce the ugliness (in the CSS).
