I’m curious. When designing sites using css layout is there value in setting a bar for browsers you’ll bend over backwards for? Is there ever a point where it is okay to say, “I’ll design for standards complaint browsers, and I’ll even degrade gracefully down to a point…but past that point, I’ll strip the css… Continue reading How Low Do You Go?
Month: January 2006
Lost
Last night I arrived home to the usual chaos and mayhem. A single sheet of paper quietly sat on my counter. My eyes skimmed the paper and caught on these words:
U.S. Department of Defense
News Release
Four Things
I’ve just been tagged by the ever so entertaining and accessible Bruce Lawson with the Four Things Meme. Considering Bruce was tagged by the driver of the love bus full of hippies, I find this request impossible to resist. So here goes:
Four jobs I’ve had in my life
- Grid Girl – lining up cars prior to races and checking the driver’s safety equipment
Shoo Fly – There is a bug in my PIE
Imagine my surprise, when I pointed my PDA browser (Pocket Internet Explorer aka PIE, Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; PPC; 240×320)) to www.cnet.com and my browser crashed! Ouch. There seems to be a bug in my PIE!
I couldn’t resist lifting up the hood to see if I could identify the culprit.
My XHTML 1.0 Strict Resolution
XHTML 1.0 Strict is my new best friend. Designing pages using this doctype is the perfect new year’s resolution to ensure that my site is slim and trim.
So, we could get into the argument about whether HTML 4.01 Strict is better than XHTML 1.0 Transitional, but personally I think that argument is not worth having until you can tell me why you are not adopting the W3C standard of XHTML 1.0 Strict.
Here are the reasons I’m choosing XHTML 1.0 Strict:
Number 1 Never Looked So Beautiful
As Mack Brown says, “Now we are just living the dream.”
Thank you Vince. Thank you Horns. Vince, you are the football legend of the century.
Longhorns 41
Trojans 38