Okay, now what?
All of a sudden, starting sometime today, our blog sometimes colors the text white instead of black. Since the background is also white, this renders the text invisible. Swell.
It doesn’t happen all the time, maybe half. And re-loading the page usually fixes it. It’s happening on both the Mac and the PC.
I have not monkeyed with the templates or style sheets in any way. All I can figure is, it’s something to do with the embedded display ad server code, which is called from a remote location. I’ve been studying that code, trying to figure out if it’s to blame. So far, I haven’t found the problem.
If anyone has a clue, feel free to comment.
UPDATE: Thanks to eagle-eyed reader Phoebe, I found the problem! Phoebe isolated the cause by noticing that the text only turned white when a particular ad was being displayed. I found an unclosed <font color=white> tag in the code of that ad! I have sent an e-mail to the syndicate, and one supposes the problem will be fixed very shortly.
I’ve not noticed it affecting the comments, have you?
See, I had a really clever (clever by my standards, anyway) response that colored most of the text white. And the tags were stripped away. So now my response was lamer than before.
Well, we couldn’t have Basil looking lame. I went in and edited your first comment to reinstate the gag.
Thanks. Now I owe you one. Wait, I’m up to about 12 or 13, aren’t I? Anyway, thanks!
Um, yeah, OK. Not a clue what has been written. Has Karl Rove been messing with you?