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Broken LJ styles, where to complain?

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Recently, the theme I’m using (“Bloggish” style, with “Green” theme) changed its appearance: the sidebar now cuts the header, something that really looks ugly, in my opinion (the header doesn’t look like a header anymore).

I just tried to change the theme back to “masala” (that grey and red), although I hate pages that doesn’t use the whole space available and/or uses some kind of hard coded width/height. To my surprise, the width still is a fixed value, but it is out of the place (it uses some tricks with the background to give the illusion of a shadow).

Checking if there is some known problem with styles, I when to LJ support and found this:

For security reasons, we have made some changes to the HTML and CSS cleaner, a routine which strips invalid, incorrect, and possibly malicious code from journal styles and overrides. If your journal is displaying improperly, you will need to correct the errors in your style or overrides. LiveJournal support cannot offer one-on-one customization help; you should perform a web search for a CSS tutorial.

So… Ok, CSS had to be changed due security concerns but the CSS where provided by LJ themselves!. What the hell!

And now I’m digging the site searching for someone to get a very irate email…

Edit 1: Oh fuck it. I’ll just change the style.

Written by Julio Biason

February 15th, 2006 at 5:58 pm

Posted in Tech

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