This page renders dreadfully in Explorer 5.x and up. For once, the problem isn’t my code, it’s the browser. Apparently, in the process of fixing numerous holes, Microsoft has broken strict CSS1 compatibility to some extent in Explorer Though they claim to be 100% compliant, the background-attachment: fixed tag only seems to work for the body, but not individual elements, which is actually in violation of the CSS specs.
So, long story short, this page doesn’t look the way it should if you’re using Explorer. To see it correctly, use Mozilla or one of its derivatives (Galeon, Thunderbird, Epiphany, or even Netscape). Heck, the html even looks respectable in Lynx, though the right div elements are moved to the bottom. I don’t know how this looks in Camino, but since it’s based on the Gecko engine, it should be fine. If anybody’s using a Mac out there, let me know.
So, what exactly are you missing? Well, the backgrounds for the individual columns should scroll transparently with the rest of the page, and I have no idea where that black junk at the bottom of the div sections comes from. Font rendering is wildly inconsistent, and the layout is botched, with the title block being too far off to the left.
I suppose there’s a lesson in here somewhere, that after all those years of groaning when being confronted with horrid-looking pages emblazoned with the “Best viewed in Internet Explorer 5.x or better,” I’ve finally created something that reverses the trend. I suppose there’s a workaround for this somewhere, but it’s bound to be ugly and annoying, and the plain fact is, I’m in no big hurry to support Microsoft products or coddle them for churning out terrible proprietary and fundamentally bad code. The ironic fact is, this page works just fine on every open-source broswer out there, and that’s good enough for me.