Well, following the 36 hour outage we suffered (as did all the compuskills hosted sites…) yesterday, there has been a fair bit of catching up required. As a “tide over,” during the outage I did come across some interesting web-design related posts which I will link here.
Note: if you are reading this on the wonderful Planet Atheism, you may want to skip to the next article.
CSS3 multi column support in safari (shame it is such a minority browser… π ) http://webkit.org/blog/?p=88
Always specify a background colour http://www.designdetector.com/2007/01/always-specify-a-background-colour.php
Humorous critique about a suggestion to give up on web accessibility by designers and make a browser which is always accessible… http://www.autisticcuckoo.net/archive.php?id=2007/05/21/browser-instead-of-accessibility
Accessible expanding and collapsing menus – a holy grail of an idea, but for some reason I just can not get it to work: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200705/accessible_expanding_and_collapsing_menu/
Anyway, now things seem to be back to normal we will try to resume the proper blog content π Until then, improve your web design skills…
Well, you’ve got no excuse, seeing as Safari is available for Windows now. π
I installed it on my work machine (Windows) and am actually impressed at how well it performs (it’s pretty fast, and the font smoothing is sweeeet), although for development Firefox still wins hands down. Oddly enough, it fubarred when I installed it on OS X, so I had to revert to the previous version. Bugger.
Is NOTHING sacred!!! First Macs on intel chipsets and now THIS!
Seriously, I might give it a try. Annoyingly nearly 50% of the people who visit this blog use IE 6 or older. Oddly, nearly all the people who comment use Firefox (or are on something other than windows…) I wonder if the two are linked π
Oh, come on, you can’t blame them: Motorola sucked big-time! π
Would it be mean of me to suggest that it’s entirely possible that IE crashed after they loaded the page but before they had a chance to press the “submit comment” button? π