Thursday, May 29, 2003
If you have been checking out the articles over the last few days, you may have noticed a few odd renderings! I’m doing my utmost to deliver the actual articles without tables.
Yes. Watch this space for further updates and ‘how to do’s’ on using stylesheets to deliver this look. Click over some of the article headings to see what this looks like from where you are sitting.
Thursday, May 15, 2003
Maybe, like me you are forever tweaking your stylesheets (css) to get your pages to look right in all flavours of web browsers.
The problem is that when you make a change and then upload your new stylesheet to your server, it can take ages for the various caches to clear before you see your changes.
What can you do?
I think I have found the solution!
Thursday, May 08, 2003
embryonic because the eBook still feels a bit ‘under development’.
These days new words are being added to the dictionary under the letter ‘e’. It’s easy; just add e - eInk, ePaper, eLife, eworld, eMedia - etc. Not to be outdone the letter ’i‘ is also in for new family members: iBook, iPhoto, iLink. Note the use of the second letter capital - another addition to written English (or should it be eEnglish?).
The eBook has it’s own semantic problems because you can’t be sure whether someone is using the term in the context of a device or the actual content: so - ‘I read War and Peace on my eBook’ means that they used an ebook device (see below). But, ‘I don’t bother with paper books anymore; I just read eBooks’. In this context, the eBook is a piece of fiction or non-fiction.
But what is the difference between a piece of interactive media like a CD-ROM and an eBook?
Tuesday, April 29, 2003
What a pain! I have had a significant amount of hassle from this problem:
Photoshop 7 adds XML content to saved jpgs. Now this only happens if you DON’T use the ‘save for web’ feature and so probably goes unnoticed to most.
A jpeg with added XML data will crash Internet Explorer 6 on PC. Not version 5 and not any version on MAC. I said crash but actually it is even more serious than that becasue Internet Explorer will not load another image until you restart! So if you FTP a jpeg to your site be sure to use the ‘save for web’ menu.
Wednesday, February 26, 2003
I hope this is the last post on this subject! I felt the need to look at this again because the redirecting of Netscape 4 users just wasn’t working properly on this site. There are some browsers out there that seemed to be fooling the browser switcher javascript. In any case it didn’t seem very polite to send Netscape 4 users off to another site so I have looked again at other ways.
Fortunately, I have a copy of Eric Meyers’s excellent book - Cascading Stylesheets - O’Reilly—and I came across a suggested way of giving Netscape users an alternative stylesheet. It turns out that you can link an external stylesheet by two methods: using link or using @import. Netscape 4.xx doesn’t recognise the latter so by using both methods you can fool Netscape 4 into using the former!
This web site is a kind of depository for all the things about getting stuff onto the web.
Tech From an E-booker’s Viewpoint:
Anti-Spam Email Links - Web Site Design - Andrew Gregory’s Web Pages: A good way to obfuscate email addresses.
CSS Round Corners | Gran Yosler | A blog about Yosle, web development, and some other stuff: A good way to get rounded corners with NO images…
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