I know that things have been quiet here. I’ve been off work ill and trying to build a new server as the current one is making some very odd noises.

I’ve got the Search working with Internet Explorer 7. Had to make a couple of minor tweaks to get it to work but if you are using IE7 you should notice that the Search box drop down has now gone Orange which means its found the search link and you can now add CanalPlan Blogs to the available search providers in IE 7.

If its not gone Orange then you might find that clicking on the Tag Cloud will make it work. I’ve no idea why it does that – its fine in FireFox… still that’s Internet Explorer for you!

For a change of scene I’ve been working on a set of Last.FM widgets which will allow you to dispaly Last.FM widgets in the sidebars on the blogs… and you should be able to see one there right now.

It was only during testing this that I found that my blog (i.e. this one) no longer displayed on Internet Explorer. For some reason it was crapping out on the GoogleMaps code. Which was odd as I’ve not got any GoogleMaps embedded in this blog.

The blog displayed fine on Opera, FireFox and Safari but produced half a page on IE 6 and then if you refreshed the page then it went blank.

After much checking of code I found it… During Development of the embedded Google Maps I’d hard coded a javascript tag into the header for this blog. It was still there and for some completely perverse reason having it there screwed up IE 6.

So I’ve taken it out and things are now working.

Well sort of – IE really gets it’s knickers in a twist if you put something into a div that is slightly wider than it should be, Everyone else ignores this but not IE, oh no, not IE.. no it reformats your page and shoves the whole column at the bottom of the page.

Well work on the route manager and maps is progressing well. As with so many things Internet Explorer is making things awkward as it needs the document settings for the page modifying to support google maps properly. So I’ve got to go through the header file for each template and adjust it.

Whilst I was working on this I found that some of the templates do some very odd things with IE – I suspect its similar to the rending problems that Nick had with CanalPlan V9 and IE, in my case it seems to be down to nested lists which cause random misplacement of some items further down the list which is really annoying.