Rant #062 Wednesday, September 8, 2004

I've been putting off doing the next page, due to some more work on cross-browser compatibility for this site. There were some issues in Safari, and there are still some major issues in Netscape 4.x... for instance, it crashes it.

Web design is fun until you have to take accessibility into account. It's easy enough to tweak your code and check it with the W3C validator, but getting it to look right in all browsers is.... difficult when you're doing more than a basic design. I'd like to think Nitrocosm.com comes close, though.

In these regards, the old site design seemed to work better in older browsers, while still looking acceptable overall. In fact, I decided to keep the old site Here , so if you liked the old site better, it's still around and will continue to be as long as this site is. The classic site is automagically kept up to date because it uses the same data and content as the main site.

Speaking of site designs, if you are using a fairly modern browser... other than Mozilla or Netscape (there's a problem with the pulldown menus - still working on that one), check out "glass" under the "appearance" menu. This is especially for those of you who use IE and Opera.

As of right now, Binary Vibrance is not using the "glass" skin, but may sometime in the future.

And now... for the all-important question: when is the next page going up? I start working on it first thing today. Hopefully it will go up tonight some time.

Updates have been happening more in the middle of the week lately, but that should shift back to the beginning of the week after a while. My schedule has changed a lot.