Fixing stuff, myself included…
Tuesday Too # 17
1.) What’s your favorite browser? Why do you hate “the other one”?
These days I mostly use IE 5. I used to swear by Netscape that IE sucked, but after blogging for a while I’ve found that most blogs look better in IE. You might ask why, and you may have noticed that some of blogger.com’s pages won’t even come up in Netscape 4.7. In fact, this is not the fault of Netscape. It’s because the pages were not designed in such a way as to be browser compatible. The same thing holds true for blogs which look different/better in one than in the other. BTW, if you don’t care how it looks across browsers (Opera, AOL, Mozilla, etc.) you’re likely to lose some of your audience. One of the hardest things about designing web sites is making the site look the same in all/most browsers. The Testzone does a fairly good job of it, with two exceptions: (a) there is a thin red line that extends across the top in Netscape, but not IE, and (b) the archives are listed on the main blog page in IE, but I had to make a separate listing of archives page for Netscape 4.7 which I manually update via ftp every week. Netscape is more sluggish to load than IE, although both are way too fat. As of June 5th Mozilla build 1 is available for download. It’s light and getting good reviews; I’m going to check it out, and I’ll post on what I think of it.
2.) Are you fascinated by technology and the internet, or is it just a handy tool for you? How did you get involved in blogging?
In a word, yes. Yes meaning I’m fascinated, and have been since 98′. I’ve known about blogging for about 2 years; I stumbled across it while surfing for design/web development information. I bookmarked (Netscape holdover), forgot about it, and didn’t start blogging until late November of last year. No, getting into blogging had nothing to do with 9/11, but rather to do with taking a closer look at myself and others.
3.) What do you think about the alliance of conservative U.S. Christian organizations with Islamic governments (Iran, Libya, Iraq) “to halt the expansion of sexual political protections and rights of gays, women and children at United Nations conferences” (Washington Post article by Colum Lynch, June 17, 2002)?
I’m appalled by this for several reasons, but will hold my tongue and see what others have to say about it.
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