Stephanie Booth's online ramblings
Social media, blogging, tweeting, facebooking, web design, and all the stuff that isn’t here yet. Subcategories highlight some areas of particular expertise.
The notify list page has been updated, and the list itself has been moved to yahoogroups.
More and more pages are going table-less each day. In the archive, the coding and writing sections, you’ll find pages with and without tables. The india and about sections are completely table-less – but that wasn’t very long to do (and while I’m at it, I’m making sure the pages are up-to-date, which explains my sluggish progress in the rip-out).
This page has no tables : )
The article “How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the W3C” by Erika Meyer prompts me to go for a little trip down A List Apart memory lane, to point you to some of the first articles I read there.
Here is a little gem extracted from the ALA Back Issues:
Dr. Strangeglobe: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The W3C.
For those interested in my personal history, it was through one of Erika Meyer‘s sites (Mombomb) that I discovered Jeffrey Zeldman. In Defense of Web Diaries is the first ALA article I ever read (followed closely by The Day the Browser Died).
I know the article has been out for a while, but it’s worth reading through: To Hell With Bad Editors.
A well-felt article on the damage done to the web by (particularly) WYSIWYG editors. Read it even if you use a WYSIWYG editor and you’re convinced you’re doing the right thing.
Oh, and if you are so inclined, CodeBitch has written a few lines about the aptitude of human beings to learn HTML. Yes, I have what you need: HTML Express tutorial.
Happy coding!
I’m making progress. My brain is almost totally fried. But surprisingly, I still have a little bit of hair left in. Enjoy the story!
Feel free to watch me sink as I try to float.
Are lots of you out there still using IE4.5 Mac? Ouch!
I just thought I’d let you know that I’m gleefully ripping out the tables from my layout. You’re not going to see anything yet, because I have the wisdom to do it in a secret testing area.
If you think you might be of any help, you’re most welcome. I’m somewhat stuck in a few browser discrepancy issues.
Do you ever get caught up on heated discussions in chatrooms? It happens to me all the time – well, when I do chat. I don’t chat half as much as I used to.
I usually feel strongly for what I believe in, and I have the (annoying) habit of trying to dissect my opponent’s arguments into little bits and pieces, turn them around and counter-check them until I reach the lowest common premisse from which I can rebuild my point of view, dragging my discussion partner with me through each step until we finally agree. So I guess I’m a real pain in the neck to argue with ; )…
Well, yesterday I had a fiery discussion about web standards in one of my favourite chatrooms. The person I was talking with saw web standards not as a common base on which greater freedom, creativity, accessibility, and efficiency can be achieved, but as a quasi-totalitarian attempt to dumb down the web to a set of arbitrary regulations.
It was very frustrating. I don’t know if he didn’t understand me, if I didn’t understand him, if my fierceness in discussion put him off, or if I simply didn’t have the right arguments, but we ended up in a dead end.
I have a strong belief that even if it is not possible for everybody to agree on everything, two people with different opinions should be able to come to a point where the discussion allows them to understand why and how the other thinks like s/he does. And it usually comes down to diverging premisses – or “hypotheses” on the world, if you prefer.
After all this, if you understand French and would like to see how irritating I can be, view the log …awaiting comments!
Waferbaby is now taking user-submitted brainstorms. So of course…
Is just friendship possible between a man and a woman, or does romance always get in the way?
