Flashes of Panic

It would be bad enough, honestly, if the problem was that the images turn up in the wrong place in IE/Win. (After all, then the correct answer would be, “IE/Win is evil, and doesn’t implement the CSS spec predictably or well; if the cover images aren’t right, you should be using a better browser anyway.” Then I’d figure out what’s wrong and write a special little CSS workaround for IE/Win.)

No, the real problem is that the images come up in one (wrong) place when you link in to the page, and then another (different, but equally wrong) place when the page is reloaded. I’ve actually sat on the problem page, clicking reload, and had the images migrate around the page in an apparently random pattern, flitting between three locations (one of which is actually the right one.)

Since the browser is allegedly using the same HTML and CSS both times, I’m pretty much helpless to debug the problem. The current solution I’m going with is, “sorry, IE/Win users. No pretty images for you.”

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