What the..?

[mishalak]

So I'm on a different computer tonight. And my livejournal layout is all funky. It is all right justified rather than left. Just my journal that I've seen this way so far. If you are so inclined please check out my main page and tell me if this is just something about this computer or if I need to craw about in the guts of my layout to figure out what has gone wrong.

Edit: I think the problem is internet explorer. I do not know why internet explorer is interpreting the html different than every other browser, but it is. I wonder if there is anything I can do about it.
 

Comments

[cindy-reddeer.livejournal.com]

Looks correct to me. I'm using Firefox.

[cindy-reddeer.livejournal.com]

IE on the other hand, is all right justified.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

That is weird. And is probably the culprit as I'm using IE here. WHY? ARRRG. Stupid MS, but I want it to look right for people using MS.

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

left justified in Panama

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

The problem, apparently, is that this computer is using IE instead of a reasonable browser. I do not know why this is the case but perhaps I should bother the tech people at LJ.

[cindy-reddeer.livejournal.com]

Looks like they are aware of the problem

http://community.livejournal.com/the_lj_herald/79721.html?nc=2

[thirdworld.livejournal.com]

I'm on a MacBook Pro using FireFox and I checked out Safari as well. Looks fine to me in both.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Well that tears it, must be Explorer that is at fault. I wonder where I should complain or ask to try to figure out how to fix this.

[thirdworld.livejournal.com]

indeed, because the damned IE is everywhere. It's useless, but it's everywhere.

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

As of 10:30 (approx.) PM Sunday it appears with standard (ragged-right) margins. I'm using Internet Explorer v.5 for Macintosh.

Mind you, I'm not sure what you mean by "right justified" -- in my book, "justified" is a typesetters' and printers' term for "spaced variably between words so that both the right and left margins are even". Standard computerist -- especially internet -- usage tends to avoid this, I think because the systems for doing it are proprietary and widely incompatible among different users.

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

Variable spaces - "full justification" or "fully justified"
Spaces pushed to right side, left aligned - "left justified"
Spaces pushed to left side, right aligned - "right justified"

This is the usage I've seen in word processors for some time now.