Minima II Blogger Baseball Scorecard - styling with position

In case you haven't been here before, or haven't been back in a while - the Blogger Baseball Scorecard Project is a ongoing development of an interactive baseball scoring form that you can use in a Blogger blog to score baseball games.

The 'Minima II' is the latest model in the project and I'm very excited about it! Today, April 23, 2011 at 1:00 PM EST I'm going to score my first game with it at this address.

In testing the 'Minima II' I am shocked at how fast and responsive it is - there's no delay from the moment one clicks in a particular text area to the time the blinking prompt is ready for keystrokes - this is surprising to me because although the previous incarnation in this project, the 'Minima I' has twice as many bytes, it was infinitely slower (a function not of size, but architecture).

The difference between the two scorecards in coding is qualitatively different. The first, the 'Minima I' represents the old way that websites were contructed in the 1980's and early 90's - the New Minima II is constructed with Cascading Style Sheet coding the way modern web pages are made today - the two scorecards represent two points on a learning curve which is me teaching myself to write code. Oddly, my epiphany from one style of coding to the other happened with out any thinking - as soon as the older card was done I started writing Minima II - and had it ready for scoring in 2 days.

Yesterday I was going to score Game 1 of the Tampa/Jays series (that's Game 2 that I'm scoring today) but blogger kept discarding the bottom pitching table - so last night I added an relative position outer wrapper CSS element and added absolute position wraps around the five tables, and gave them all top and left positions - now Blogger reads the whole scorecard correctly (and dosn't mistake repeating data for an error).

So below is a first attempt at adding some style with position - it looks at little less like a brick wall now I think. :)

Next, maybe some images here and there.

mh

Box Score	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	Runs	Hits	Errors	LOB
Visitors
Home

Visiting Team	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
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Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB

Visitor Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA

Home Team	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
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Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB

Home Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA