No less opinionated though!
As hard as I try, there hasn’t been time to finish a post lately. Like always, I’m saving drafts of something I intend to finish, but never seem to get to. I suppose I also owe that to my distrust of my first draft! It’s either horribly written, or horribly […]
No less opinionated though!
As hard as I try, there hasn’t been time to finish a post lately. Like always, I’m saving drafts of something I intend to finish, but never seem to get to. I suppose I also owe that to my distrust of my first draft! It’s either horribly written, or horribly abrasive; I try to post the median between the two. Regardless, here’s something I experienced recently.
During my last class, I got involved in a discussion w/ some of the other students and the instructor. It started w/ one of the students remarking how they felt Firefox was difficult to work with; that it displayed things wrong compared to Internet Explorer. [Don’t sprain your eyes from the repeated, intense rolling you’re experiencing at this moment.]
I, and the instructor quickly jumped to the aid of our friend the Fox explaining that it’s the friendlier of the two, and that it actually cares about web standards. We explained that we coded in FF first, then debugged IE afterwards. They couldn’t understand this logic, as they were told by another instructor that they should be designing for the browser w/ the larger market share. [Proper stretching will prevent severe eye sprainage.]
Unfortunately I didn’t think of this at the moment, but I had to share this regardless. For the sake of the web’s future we all should be coding for Firefox and debugging IE afterwards. I’ll explain. Since we know that FF is pretty compliant w/ web standards it goes w/out saying that we are learning the correct way to code by doing so. By coding for IE, we’re learning things from a skewed perspective. So here we have another graduating group of designers who are perpetuating IE and all the issues inherent to it, forcing those of us learning standards based markup to continue utilizing hacks, inevitably wasting all of our time.
So essentially (at least to me) if you’re unable to get it to look right in Firefox, then your code isn’t right; or more lightly said: you’re not using best practices. I know that’s harsh, but I think it has to do a little w/ me getting tired of this school. Beyond that I won’t say anything further.
Technorati Tags: coding, web standards, Internet Explorer, Firefox, XHTML, CSS
My digital life is hard. It’s very, very, hard.
Once again my entries table is full of unpublished posts. I think I have at least 5 that I haven’t finished. Knowing myself this entry is probably going to be shelved until later as well, and this is the abridged, content edited, formatted to fit […]
My digital life is hard. It’s very, very, hard.
Once again my entries table is full of unpublished posts. I think I have at least 5 that I haven’t finished. Knowing myself this entry is probably going to be shelved until later as well, and this is the abridged, content edited, formatted to fit your screen version of a post from a couple of weeks ago!
I finally made myself migrate to the (gs) Grid-Servers at Media Temple. I don’t know what I was waiting for since it was so damn easy. Just a few clicks and I made the trip to my new flat (British for hype new crib). After that there was only a few housekeeping details w/ my mail setup, but that’s about it. The new control panel is sweet; and there’s a ton of information at your fingertips. Everything feels more intuitive.
Things are so easy now, that I went ahead and installed WordPress (previously unavailable) to give that CMS a try. I’m going to use that for another blog I’ve been doing for the past year, but have slacked off recently. I’ll let you all know when that goes live. I figured that w/ all the hype it’s getting I can’t go wrong by trying it out. It already seems to have a much more active community surrounding it than w/ Movable Type. We’ll see.
On the, “Yes sir! May I have another…” front my PC is on the verge of a complete meltdown. This time it’s a product of bad hardware and not just the freaking OS. I installed some nice fresh RAM, and that lasted all of a couple of weeks before I was having spontaneous reboots. I went up to 3 GB only to be cut down to 1.5 (don’t ask…). Now it looks like that nothing in this setup is going to play fair w/ each other so here comes rebuild #3 (or is it 4?). Cool thing is that I’m going to be able to go to SLi w/ this setup that I’m thinking of. Not that I have any time for playing games!
Lucky I’m typing this on my iMac!
Too bad all my storage (1 TB+) is in the PC.
Technorati Tags: blogging, whining, Media Temple, Grid-Server, WordPress
You know the scenes in movies where the main character is behind sound-proofed one-way glass watching their loved one about to be attacked and not being able to do a thing about it? With everything I’ve had to do lately that’s exactly what it felt like for the things I wanted to do. […]
You know the scenes in movies where the main character is behind sound-proofed one-way glass watching their loved one about to be attacked and not being able to do a thing about it? With everything I’ve had to do lately that’s exactly what it felt like for the things I wanted to do. This applies mostly to my website and blog. I’ve been looking at the same damn things needing to be changed, things to be added, and things to be deleted w/ no chance of working on them; so much so that it’s making me sick. There have been moments where I’ve had time, but I’ve ended up falling asleep at my desk.
Before this I’d always wonder why other designers/bloggers would have difficulties keeping up w/ posts, and now I know. I’d always think that it wouldn’t happen to me, but here I am writing about the same experience; the same fatigue. It’s interesting looking at some fatal flaws in your work, especially when people are visiting you site, and you’re unable to fix them. Since it’s also ridiculous to spend time whining about it rather than doing it, I’ll stop here. See you soon.
Technorati Tags: blogging, whining, bitching
