Hi guys and gals,
Sunday again! Weather here in Edinburgh sunny and around 14 degrees, so
we've been out to one of the local Sunday Markets about 25km from the
City. Got some socks and bits and pieces for our up-coming vacataion,.
Foot and Mouth now running at 870 cases confirmed in the UK, and a very
large wholesale slaughter campaign still underway. The UK Government is
now trying to get people back into the Countryside, mainly because the
tourism business is now really suffering. Our bookings for our May
Vacation Caravan meeting are normally over 60 units by now, building up
to about 150. We've got 11 at present! If that's reflected in the rest
of the tourist market, then this year will be a disaster for tourism
dependent businesses in the UK.
Our six year old grand-daughter, Lauren (she's been here before we
think, in a previous life!) asked her Mum for a copy of the ABBA Gold CD
for her birthday. I've ended up making 11 copies of it for various
family members and for their cassette players and so on. Made two for
myself, one for the car, one for the works panel van. The real fun bit
is, I asked Lauren which ABBA song she liked best. Her reply? "Chicken Tikka"
which is of course "Chiquitita!"
What's really puzzling is if you sing the song using Chicken Tikka, it
still works quite well with the lyrics (grin VBG 8>} )
Arachne and CSS. Hmmmmmm! well yes, it does now change the colours on a
hover on links, but is that it? I couldn't get it to display any other
font on an external style sheet, and the hover on links thing only
appears to work on a "local" html/css tag, not on a .css external file?
Thanks for how to enable it Clarence, but I'm becoming caught up in
L.D.'s attitude to Arachne a bit.
It's good fun, and if the only machine/operating system you've got is
DOS on say a 486 up to a basic Pentium, then it's great, but it's
getting so far left behind the Winbloat offerings that fewer and fewer
websites will be able to be accessed using it. This means that like it
or not, designers will go for the very newest browsers (for that read
Micro$oft) and optimise their pages for just that only.
This may be because they don't know any better, or more likely they
don't really care! Even in my own case, and I do try to write for
cross-browser usage, it's very hard to justify 30% of my time on a
website to cater for around 1 to 2% of the visitors. And that's just the
personal sites where I do it mainly for the love of it. On Commercial
sites, if I want to provide cross-browser support, I have to do it kind
of as a covert and unpaid for operation, most clients will NOT pay for a
re-write to suit such a small group of potential users. It's very hard
to get clients to stand for a text only page alternative if you cost it
in, even pointing out it's for visually impaired users.
The problem is, it's getting to the stage where I keep Arachne as a
curiosity and a baseline for simple sites. My Arachne4dos site is
pulling in over a 100 hits each week but I don't see how I can justify a
lot of time to re-write and up-date it, at the same time I don't want to
just dump it, it seems to be proving a valuable resource for the DOS
curious amongst the general population of brwoser users. Any thoughts on
this gang?
Enough for now, KaffeeKlatch on the go! Ella calls (she who says the
weight WILL come off, whilst supplying the raspberry cheesecake) and
must be obeyed. Next week's Sunday sals will eblate on Sunday, we get
our first camping weekend this year.
Regards and if Coca-Cola can clean a copper coin like new (just soak it)
what is it doing to your stomach?
Mel
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