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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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  Re: They say a picture is worth a thousand words...
 
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 (...) (24 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 (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc)

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