So the problem was in the DHTML menu code, but after spending almost the entire day trying to fix it I just gave up. I ended up just wrapping that element in another table with two cells in one row. I placed the menu in the left cell, and a spacer image 1px wide and 44px high in the right most cell. It's not ideal, but I fixed it.

What's this?! Two consecutive posts!? Before you get excited, I'm just here to bitch about something.

Sometimes I just hate html. I've been trying to fix this problem for a couple hours, it should have been a simple thing.



Two tables on top of eachother, one is two rows, the bottom row contains a DHTML menu. The bottom table contains a few images. For whatever reason Firefox displays this fine, IE somehow colapses the top table and pushes the images in the bottom table up underneath the Menu. Like below,



So, due to Firebug not working in IE, I slap some various borders around the elements to try and see whats going on. As you can see in the code below, I've pick various colours to use (and I've showed where the borders come from)



This is how it shows in Firefox, as it should show:



And this is how the elements are showing in IE:



Please note the comepete lack of a bottom row on the top table (the one that should be coloured yellow).

For whatever reason, the menu isn't being containted by the upper table, so the table isn't being sized correctly, so the bottom table isn't sitting correctly. This is stupid. I hate IE. I'm going on lunch.

This first thing that I'm going to say is that I love GTA IV. I know that I'm not the only one, as this game is getting nothing but praise. While the game is quite amazing, it's not perfect. In fact, I know many people that just pain don't like it.

In my group of friends, only a few of us are 'hardcore' gamers. Those friends of mine that fall closer to the 'casual' group of gamers are quite divided on the game. It's these type of people that have opinions that really matter, as I think they are the closest to 'unbiased' as you can get. They have no real allegiance; while they don't hate games they don't love them all either. They usually come to a game with a fresh outlook, and if on the surface it's just more of the same - they won't like it.

So in no particular order I'm going to outline some things that I think the 'average' gamer would pick out as reasons not to like the game. 

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By now you must have heard of Midway's new fighting game pitting Mortal Kombat characters against DC Comics Characters. I don't think anyone is sure of the projects actual name, but the official site is worldscollide.com, so for now lets assume that will be the game's name.

So what the hell is this? Can anyone see this actually being released as a good game? Let's start with the biggest glaring problem, has any game with DC Characters been worth playing? I may be a Marvel fanboy... but honestly now. Mortal Kombat is another poisoned franchise. When's the last time a decent MK game was released? Other than the fanboy thrill of imagining Subzero and Batman fighting (which I admit to being a pretty cool thought), how does this game in any way sound like a hit?

Then I start thinking about it more. One of the reasons I never got into DC Comics more is that the majority of them are too overpowered. That being said, the majority of Mortal Kombat characters are just your standard "Enhanced Ninja" type. Does this seem like a fair fight to you? Right away you can see that they are going to significantly power-down most of the DC Side. While Batman would translate real easily, how are they going to have Superman or Wonder Woman without making them... well... lame?

Finally, to top it all off, there are rumours that the gore and fatalities have been completely removed. Doesn't this take away a major aspect of why Mortal Kombat is so appealing in the first place? While I do understand DC doesn't want Scorpion to rip out Superman's spine, which just farther shows why this whole project is a bad idea.

But what do I know? Maybe Midway will pull some magic and make something that is fun to play, but I doubt it.