IE6 Nav Pane? Sticky Posts?

[watchmebe]

-I just recently realized that in IE6, the sidebar is pushed to the bottom, under the entries. Does anyone know of a way to repair this? Oddly enough, it only does it on my main page-- on my Friends page, the sidebar appears as normal. I'd like to page my journal as all-browser friendly as possible

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[av8rmike]

Hi again. The usual reason IE6 pushes the sidebar to the bottom of the page is because it thinks there's not enough horizontal room for both the entry and sidebar columns. I took all your customizations and applied them to my journal, and it displayed fine for me in IE6. Even on your pages, skipping back 20 entries displayed correctly. It looks like you've posted some videos on recent entries, maybe those are making it display weird...

About the future-dating question, the only reason you set the date into the future is so it appears at the top of the journal, before all others. If you want a specific entry to appear before certain ones, just set its date to out of order and before those. Here's an example

[watchmebe]

Ugh, it pushes everything to the bottom for me-- I wonder what the difference is? I'm only even concerned about it because the people at my publishing house are on ie6, and I *definitely* want it to appear correctly for them. Huh.

Perhaps I'm mixed up about the Bloggish stuff!
The trouble with backdating as you mentioned is that I still use the tags that I want the intro post to refer too, so I'd be forever redating and changing the intro posts. Can you think of anyway to achieve a similar effect?

Thanks :)

[av8rmike]

Oh, OK, I see what you're asking for with respect to the tag view. I must have missed that the first time around. Unfortunately, it's not a trivial exercise to determine that you're looking at a tag-filtered page and to display one of several sticky posts accordingly. It requires some S2 trickery and I'm not even sure the system will allow you to overwrite the sticky post content in real time. I can play around with it a bit and see what I come up with.

Can you try putting the embedded videos behind LJ-cuts and see if that fixes the IE6 problem? I want to see if it does before I start suggesting CSS trickery.

[watchmebe]

I logged into LJ through IE and thus it displayed all my entries and pushed the videos to another page....and the sidebar is still at the bottom! Very odd.

Thank for giving it a shot!