Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
January 26, 2004
Baseball Musings Gets Results?

I don't know if this post and the comments made a difference, but copying appears to be working on ESPN articles again.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:45 AM | Blogs | TrackBack (0)
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Thanks, David! You sure work fast!

Posted by: Greg Pizzo at January 26, 2004 03:15 PM

I am not able to copy/paste from ESPN's MLB Insider web site, but everywhere else works fine. It might be that ESPN doesn't want people copying from thier premium service and having it make news elsewhere on the internet. Just a theory of mine.

Anyway, this is my first post on this site and I just want to say great job.

Posted by: Ron at January 26, 2004 03:37 PM

This is an ongoing problem with CSS layouts using absolute positioning in IE.

It can usually be solved by changing the either the xml or doctype declaration or a combo of both (I can't remember exactly.)

Probably this is what ESPN developers did to fix the problem. Or is what they should do if the problem really isn't fixed.

Posted by: Edw. at January 26, 2004 05:09 PM

I posted a bug report about it after reading your post and asked for an email response. I'll probably get nothing from them (especially since the message I got when reporting said "You'll get nothing from us"), but I can pretend I had something to do with it getting fixed...

Ed, I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one... The tags mentioned in the comments of the other post when inserted into a test document that I played with made the text unselectable. Those tags have since been removed from the ESPN site and the text is back to its old self. I don't doubt your comments about CSS and XHTML since I've had my own problems with those to rascals myself, but in this case I think we were looking at some more nasty, proprietary stuff from good old Redmond. Ah well, the twisted web we weave...

Posted by: jfournier at January 26, 2004 07:02 PM

Ah, yes, there is always the very good chance it was weird propietary tags.

I didn't ever look at the code, I was just cherry picking in passing since that absolute position/unselectable text problem is so common.

And that everything always worked on the Mac side, it didn't occur to me that MS propietary tags could be at fault since those usually work in MS products and not the rest.

Posted by: Edw. at January 27, 2004 06:42 AM