Re: The Battle of the Browsers

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 16:50:41 -0600, dorayme wrote (in article 
<doraymeRidThis-4CB9E1.09504102122006@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
[commenting 
on my website in progress at
<http://homepage.mac.com/taliesinsoft/Adams/>]


> On my iCab, your "pop-ups" simply appear in new tabs. And look perectly 
> nice. Which brings me to some suggestions (all based on Occam) 

On my iCab the popups appear in a new window when the thumbnail is clicked

upon. Is there a preference that determines if they appear as a tab? Or am
I 
misreading the above? 

> (1) Lose all the javascript 

The site is implemented via Freeway 4 Pro which is a WYSIWYG website 
construction environment. I have no direct control over the generated code

which is produced by Freeway at the moment of uploading the site. I also
am 
not versed in HTML and javascript and such and am hoping that I needn't
have 
to become versed in them -- shame on me!  :-) 

> (2) Forget about blue borders, they are ugly and serve no purpose in
fact 
> here (Put in css {border:0} for all img links, hover and visited and
all, 
> the thumbnails are obviously links and the hand cursor is sufficient 
> indication to users. 

I've replaced the blue borders with a so-called "glow" which significantly

softens them. In my experience just the hand doesn't register with a great

many users. 

> (3) Forget about popups generally here. Leave it to the user to open in
a 
> new window or a tab, deliberately or via his/her settings; let the 
> thumbnails be simple links to the bigger pics, as simple as <a 
> href=""...><img...></a> 

I'll have to think on the popup issue. I haven't had a negative reaction
from 
any of those I've shown the site to in person.  
> You will simplify your code, increase your cross browser chances and 
> respect the user instead of trying to control them so much. (You have
the 
> disease bad as can be seen by your worry about the user being able to 
> resize the pop up <g>...) 

Yes, I guess I tend to be a control freak! My disallowing the resizing of
the 
popups is because I think nothing is gained by showing only part of the 
picture. 

As an aside, I will be adding titles beneath each of the popup pictures. 


And.... 

Many thanks for taking the time to comment. 


-- 
James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]