"Hey Bryan; I've started a new thread over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elements about a concept for nav bars and locator maps. Your views, opinions and HTML skills are requested. )  

  

 Bryan, if you have some time, will you write something about horseshoe orbits?  I don't quite understand how they work and I am curious.  Thanks.  

 :Sure, I'll take a crack at it. I'll have effectively zero time tomorrow, but the day after is good. But I barely understand them myself, so I'm not sure how much I'll be able to help. )  

 ::Thanks. I will also look somewhere to see if I can find some sort of graphical representation.  

 :::The site http://www.astro.queensu.ca/~wiegert/3753/3753.html has a great deal of good stuff about weird orbits like this, and not just 3753 Cruithne's. I once wrote the author for permission to use some of it on Wikipedia, but never got a response. 

 :;:Also, go over to www.xoverboard.com and read the entry on September 25, 2002 regarding Scrooge McDuck and his purported wealth.  I think you'll get a kick out of it.  

 :::Heh. I can sort of believe McDuck's relatively low ranking; I mean, his idea of investing his money is just throwing it all in a giant money pit. But what's with Lex Luthor only having a measily four billion dollars? This is the guy who single-handedly financed the rebuilding of Gotham City and Metropolis! And Thurston Howell III is listed as having twice as much! Can you imagine Lex Luthor being stuck on that island? Gilligan and the rest would be dead within a week, and the island itself converted into a secret LexCorp research facility of some kind. 

 :::I'm sorry, I seem to be digressing. )  07:11 Sep 30, 2002 (UTC) 

 ::::Funny!  

  

 Why did you remove the text centering from the table of line-ending characters in the ASCII entry, and replace it with cellpadding/cellspacing attributes? You should note that these table-level attributes have no effect if the user has chosen a skin/stylesheet like Cologne Blue, which specifies them via CSS properties at the td level.   

 :Just personal aesthetics, I guess; I find tables more readable in general when the text all starts at the same spot, whereas centered text makes my eyes go jagged when I scan down the column. The cellspacing/padding attributes are ones which I add to virtually all the tables I edit, also for aesthetic reasons (and if they're overridden, that's fine; that's what style sheets are for).  

  
 Bryan: I'm working on developing sep11.wikipedia.org. Until it's ready, I would appreciate it if you didn't delete the Memoriam page. Your help is welcome.  

 :It hasn't been deleted, copies of the page are stored in both the page's history and on the meta site. When sep11.wikipedia.org is ready, it will be trivial to retrieve this for it.  

 I believe you know what I'm talking about when I said ""delete"".  

 :Yeah, but I was glad it was finally gone from Wikipedia and the fact that its contents were still accessible if and when someone wanted to make it available elsewhere was good enough IMO. 

 sep11: doesn't work fine. It has broken links. It's not fully set up. The blue background needs to be changed. Etc.  It's still, as they say, in beta. But now that there are clean redirects the primary detriment to user experience has been removed. I'd appreciate your help in improving the site.  

 :No thanks, I barely have time for Wikipedia itself these days. 

  
 Hi Brian, Maverick149 thought you would like to knwo about this bug 
 (I also filed a bug report) 

 See screendump ScrPrint.gif 

 Explorer renders somes pages in a weird way. 

 Mav says the Periodic Table should always fit on the screen (Table width = 100%) 

 It does not in Explorer 5.5. and 6.  

 What is even more horrid: when I scroll to the right the tabIe moves underneath the menu, showing both intermingled (see screen dump) 

 I've seen this now  on three PC's: 
 Win2000 MSIE 5.5 
 Win98 MSIE 5.5 (screen dump) lowres screen 
 Win XP MSIE 6 hires screen 

 The effect occurred on other pages too. 
 Even if it is an Explorer issue only, some 90% or more of the Wikipedians probably use Explorer, at least half of them 5.5 or higher.