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Re: They say a picture is worth a thousand words...
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Thu, 16 May 2002 14:20:08 GMT
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In lugnet.trains.org.scltc, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.trains.org.scltc, Brad Mittelstedt writes:
In lugnet.trains.org.scltc, Thomas Michon writes:

Do yourselves a favor and open the page in MSIE (I know you may hate it, but
at least it will work).

Um, I think it may be a disservice to make a site so fancy that it works
only in IE. Netscape is fading away but not gone completely yet. There are
other browsers out there too.


Honestly, I believe Netscape is on the way up .. the war is really heating up
now with AOL.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/11/1243222&mode=nested&tid=120

This makes it so much more important to follow core standards.

http://www.w3c.org


http://members.cox.net/viffer/fullerton/fullerton.html?image=1

Hey, thanks muchly for that. One minor suggestion, put the nav buttons at
the top since the images being different sizes cause you to need to scroll
or mouse up/down to press them.

Ya know, I noticed that.  Not to mention I should put some text in the buttons
to make them bigger .. but there is a small issue .. I should not have to.
They are not my pictures and this was a quick, temporary work around.

But none the less it is on my "to-do" list for my site.  I have noticed they
jump around a bit which makes it "un-Zen" to surf because you have to move the
mouse to click.  So the idea is not new, but none the less noted, and
appreciated!


The images of course are awesome, looks like a great show.



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Alrighty... While no one was looking I "fixed" it. Apparently, Netscape didn't like some of my variable names, while Internet Explorer just worked. I renamed some variables and now it works with Netscape (5.2+!) I was originally trying to be (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc)

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(...) Um, I think it may be a disservice to make a site so fancy that it works only in IE. Netscape is fading away but not gone completely yet. There are other browsers out there too. I try to leave ultrafancy features out of sites so that they work (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc)

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