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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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24 July 2001 - 12:28 pm
Well, the minor redesign I talked aout yesterday may be snowballing into a larger redesign. We'll see what happens in the next few weeks.
My promised web design-related rant was going to be on the subject of html validation. I'm not sure I want to get into it though. I'll just say that when you have to choose between your code validating and your page rendering correctly in another browser (with no adverse effects in the primary browser you're designing for), I think you should latter over the former. I suspect I'm in the minority on this though, at least among people who run personal websites.
On an entirely different note, you should head over to Aaron's new site, ab9online. It's only been up a couple of days, but it's an attractive site with good writing. And he has the good sense to link to us here at -273, so what else can you ask for?
Back to the redesign thing for a moment. We're thinking of abandoning Netscape support, mainly because no one who reads our site uses Netscape. More specifically, according to server logs about 6% of our hits come from people using Netscape browsers. However, I suspect most of these hits came when I was fiddling around with NS earlier this month, but it is important for me to know how many of our readers will be upset if -273 stops rendering nicely in Netscape 4. So if you use Netscape v4.7 or lower, please send me an email posthaste. This whole issue requires some thought, because I am very reluctant to give up any browser compatability. But with no one using NS, and the likelihood of people using NS4 in the future become smaller and smaller, I am more likely to give in to the simplicity of a world without Netscape.
Yes, I may very well be a hypocrite. So sue me.
Posted by on 24 July 2001 at 12:28 PM
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