After tweaking and testing various elements of the content on this and a couple other pages in my site, I have discovered a consistency in when Opera’s cuts off content. The design of this site […]
Category: Web
Iconic and Ironic
I’ve added a bunch of icons to the site. One is a “shortcut iconâ€, using the Windows XP icon file format, which allows for multiple icons of different sizes and color depths (including 32-bit true-color […]
Layout Tweak
I’ve made one slight change to two lines of this site’s CSS code—changed the positioning method of the content from absolute to fixed and added overflow: auto; to the main content wrapper div. Somehow, I […]
GeoReferencing, Pete’s Way
I have been intrigued for quite a while by all the GeoReferencing of Web sites and blog entries that has been going on for a while, but have not managed to get my site listed […]
Recharge
OK, so I’ve been neglecting my own Website. Not a good thing. I’m in the process of migrating all the pages to the newly tweaked design. Not much different from the old, but I had […]
I’m Redesigning Too
With everyone else and his brother redesigning in public, I figure I might as well do the same. Please don’t adjust your dial, the design will be synchronized and harmonious again soon. It will also […]
Mobile Web Mess
I’ve configured the MIME types needed to serve pages to WAP-enabled cell-phone browsers, and started experimenting with creating mobile content for the first time. Oh, boy is this frustrating. Not only are the capabilities of […]
script comments
Going along with my switch to pure xhtml 1.1, I realized I also needed to get rid of the comments inside the script tags, since a UA is supposed to ignore anything surrounded by comments. […]
Hiding Extensions from URLs
Once I had finished getting the MIME type modified on-the-fly, I remembered Tim Berners-Lee’s description of Cool URIs, advising authors to leave out tons of things from URIs, including file extensions. So I added the […]
xhtml 1.1 MIME type solution
Inspired by a recent posting on diveintomark, I redoubled my efforts to make this site use XHTML 1.1 properly, even including serving it as application/xhtml+xml, which makes content unreachable by IE. When querried, Mark said […]