i'm working on a redesign, thought i'd send a skeleton. it's mostly put together layout-wise, but i have (as usual) a couple quandries:
- i really like the columns-on-the-right thing--you should see it at 1680x1050, it's awesome--but i don't know what to do with the rest of the content. you can't tell in the picture, but that little list on the left is a fixed-position mouse-over (pure
css , naturally). it's ok there, but i know it'd be better elsewhere. just haven't figured out where, exactly. - i'm currently sending it as
xhtml 1.1. trouble is, internet explorer--even ie 7--doesn't support it. i don't really need it, since i'm not building/using xhtml modules, so i could kick it back to xhtml 1.0. ie doesn't support that either, but it can be sent as regular html and still validate. naturally, there's a whole host of problems associated with sending xhtml as html, so at that point it'd almost make sense to just go back to html 4.01. interestingly, the w3c sends xhtml 1.1 for standards-compliant browsers and html 4.01 for everything else, which means they're actually changing the page code for different browsers. i could do that, but it'd be a lot of effort that i'm not sure i'm willing to put in for a browser that has absolutely no excuse for its noncompliance.
- because i'm a geek
- because i like my languages to make as much sense as possible
- because i'm lazy, and making sure my xhtml validates keeps me honest
in other news, kylie was up for the weekend, so we all went to the beach this afternoon and played frisbee--probably one of the last opportunities we'll have, really.