Re: The Battle of the Browsers

TaliesinSoft wrote:
> 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!  :-)

Get a WYSIWYG website program not designed by morons. Amaya
<http://www.w3.org/Amaya/>
by the W3C should be your tool of choice.
Most other WYSIWYG website programs use way too much javascript because
for the most part they are designed by either morons or idiots.


> > (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.

Use the w3c program. Clean code make is MUCH easier to update things.