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[sebastienne]

I'm in a significantly better mood after discovering that cycling hurts this sprained ankle less than walking. Thanks to everyone who was lovely to me when I was feeling rubbish the other day.

I maded a website! All by myself and I didn't even steal a little bit of anybody else's code.

The logo went slightly pixelly when I changed the .png to a .gif (bloody IE6 not supporting .png transparency) but it now works in every browser I've tested it in.

I am aware that everybody else acquired these skills in utero but I am nevertheless exceedingly proud of my baby-steps towards actually having some tech skills.

Also, this news pleases me: Oxford cops reprimanded for tobogganing on riot shields.

Comments

[h0m54r.livejournal.com]

The difference is definitely noticeable, but could be worked around - if you recreated the image without antialiasing, then you wouldn't get the hazing (which occurs because the image program smooths the difference between black and transparent with multiple levels of transparency - all but one of which become opaque in the single-transparency GIF). Then the difference wouldn't be very noticeable, and you'd get compliant code that looked good everywhere.

(When I need to create websites, I take a slightly pragmatic approach - since standards compliance doesn't ensure that it'll work everywhere, just make sure that it's intelligible, and that it should work pretty much everywhere.)

(I'll also refrain from posting my thoughts on those folks still using IE6...)

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

those folks still using IE6

Unfortunately, that appears to be the institutional browser. So people in Oxford's libraries, computer rooms, and offices, are often stuck with it. Believe me, the temptation to stick in a conditional-comment header saying "You're using a non-compliant insecure browser! It's your own damn fault this doesn't display properly!" is ever-present.

[h0m54r.livejournal.com]

Indeed; long has that disturbed me. Of course except on the Sun terminals, where you get an old and bastardised version of Firefox.

(St Anne's JCR for a few years had machines with a choice between IE7 without multiple tab support, for some reason, and Firefox 1.5.)

[andustar.livejournal.com]

Do I know you?

*was unsociable stannes person*

[h0m54r.livejournal.com]

Possibly... I was also a pretty antisocial Stanner. When did you graduate?

[andustar.livejournal.com]

2007. Shani, hung around with fellow english students Meg and Alaka?

[h0m54r.livejournal.com]

Doesn't ring any bells, I'm afraid. I'm Ed, physicist: matriculated 2005, graduated 2009; mostly hung around with other scientists.

[andustar.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. I knew a couple of Eds, evidently not you :)

[h0m54r.livejournal.com]

There were a lot of us around! :)