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Re: Transparent Footer

  • Subject: Re: Transparent Footer
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:19:15 +0100
  • Newsgroups: alt.html
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / MCC / Manchester University
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__/ [Jafar As-Sadiq Calley] on Saturday 10 September 2005 14:53 \__

> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 06:26:20 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>>> You just made my day. It doesn't work with IE! Woohoo! :)
>> 
>> Knowingly so. Please see the following entry from last week:
>> 
>>
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/08/31/condolences-to-explorer/
> 
> I posted a link into comp.os.linux.advocacy. I hope you don't mind. You
> have a fan already though.


Thank you for posting that link. Even though I am subscribed to
comp.os.linux.advocacy I hadn't noticed your post until you mentioned it.


> He said...
> "What a cool Web page.  I've never seen one like that before.  Just press
> page-down to get to the next point.  And you don't need proprietory
> crapware (PowerPoint) to see the presentation."


To be fair, let us not forget to acknowledge the 'motor' which is S5 (GPL):

http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/

I mention it in _many_ different places throughout my site including the
metadata. I also used to embed links in the presentations themselves, but
the viewers/audience saw it as propaganda, which they did not appreciate.


> Well done on taking a stand against IE's anti-webstandards stance. My
> moonlife-records.com site also uses .png transparency which means the menu
> buttons have a white background which is a shame.


My site's share of Firefox roughly equates that of IE. Moreover, if we never
'tell' IE users that their browser is buggy, will they ever upgrade? It
bothers me that bodies like FEMA spit at my direction while inferior
browsers never get punished because they are bundled to a commercial O/S,
which naturally (unjustifiable) sums up to a majority.

Roy

-- 
Roy S. Schestowitz      | "Seeing bad movies only encourages them"
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