Update: Problem solved. After some consultation from an outside adjudicator, Mike wins the prize for his copy-and-paste-perfect solution although Peter’s solution from a few minutes earlier might work if I fiddled with it. Mike: send me your address, and then start waiting by your mailbox for the prize.
In addition to public accolade here, I will personally send a real (i.e., tangible, nonvirtual) and quirky prize worth at least $10 to whoever can successfully solve the problem of making Scatterplot’s sidebar wider. Be sure to read clues in the comments to my earlier post before proposing a solution. The CSS for Scatterplot can be viewed here (HT: mbader). Anyone is eligible; please alert anyone you think has sufficient geek-chops for this challenge.
(Aside: should that be whoever or whomever above? Where’s Eszter when you need her?)
Two simple rules:1. I am the absolute and final judge of whether it counts as a solution, but I promise I will act in good faith.
2. I want the sidebar wider while still appearing parallel to and on the left side of the posts. In other words, I want a solution that preserves all other design features of this blog, except that the sidebar is wider.
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I’m here! It’s whomever. How do I know? Just substitute he/she vs him/her in a sentence that’s not a question, rather, a response to the question. You will give the money to her so it’s whomever.
Sorry, no time to figure out the WP issues.:( (I remember it took me forever to figure out how to make the image linked back when, that was painful enough.)
i actually think it should be “whoever” because it’s the subject of the following clause. cf., “i’ll give $10 to whomever i can beat in scrabble.”
uhh, get a bigger monitor?
actually it is the object of the preposition “to” so should be “whomever”.
Is it as simple as:
in 2c-l.css, change div#container to width 90%
then in the same file, change div.sidebar to width 250px?
Jeremy, if Peter’s didn’t work - I posted what I think is a solution in the original post. If I understand correctly, you can’t get to the 2c-l.css file to edit it (I could be wrong) - if that is the case, you can edit your personal .css file as I noted in the original post.
Lose the “ever” and see which sounds right:
I’ll give a prize to (anyone) who can successfully solve .
I’ll give a prize to (anyone) whom can successfully solve
i just did a search and found the following support for ‘whoever’, in addition to Jay’s comment:
- 2 rules from the blue book of grammar and punctuation. (to me, it’s still the same rule that subject/object in its own sub-clause determines whoever/whomever.)
- the columbia guide to standard american english
- definitions of whoever and whomever on dictionary.com, with examples.
So close, and yet, I feel so…empty. Waiting by my mailbox for a prize which will never arrive.