2006-03-08

Design with Discipline

I was looking for a[n] RSS feed for the latest release/builds of Firefox, Gecko and Thunderbird. I remember subscribing on one feed but it had lots of other Firefox advocacy related stuff that I didn't want to recieve with the feed and I couldn't find it anymore. I ended up finding something else. Here's a short FAQ for frustrated web designers with problems on cross-browser compatibility for Firefox; link. Ang-Ang and Karlo, this is for you. Way back when I was coding HTML and JavaScript in high school, I disciplined myself to make every page readable and functional on IE5 and Netscape 4. I had to do this to the pixel. I guess I only had discipline for coding. Haha. I like the way Firefox emphasized on the standards and discouraging malpractice of the tags and their attributes. For example, the alt in <img> where proprietary browsers decided to use it for tooltips. Way back in the Lynx days, it really stood [and still stands] for alternative text for browsers that couldn't display images. No matter how you'd try to scramble the letters of alt, it wouldn't go anywhere near tooltip. It sucks that they had to tolerate the iframe tag but its elements are not accessible via Javascript. I didn't notice that Mozilla really runs a tight ship with development. The deer park versions are quite disappointing though. Here's the guideline to getting your code included.

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