Yearly Archives: 2008

Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8

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I’m a bad geek. I read an article about what could be a great solution for browser compatibility issues and my first though is OMG the browser bloat.

I’m sorry — I don’t want my browser to render a webpage the way it was written ten years ago, I want people to go back and cull their code of garbage. If the page is still valuable, then there’s value in keeping it up to date. Clean out all those spoiled electrons, update their pages to match the current standards, and maybe just maybe take invalid/non-useful/non-relevant/garbage content down off the web.

Just because we can save everything doesn’t mean we should. Especially if it means Internet Explorer, which seriously needs to go on a diet as it is, now has to maintain its blubber from one generation to the next.

Yet another user architecture survey

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I’m starting to mull over possible changes to the site design again and have a few questions for you, the user:

  1. Why are you here? Is it the comic, the blog, or both?
  2. are you able to find what you’re looking for?
  3. i haven’t posted a babble thread in a while. (It wasn’t intentional.) Did you miss them?

As always, there’s no registration requirement to comment. Since the commenters get the opportunity to shape the outcome of my decisions it pays to speak up especially if you respectfully disagree with someone else’s views. Thanks!

MacBook Air Haters: Get A Grip

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I am the kind of computer gearhead who’s not afraid to gut her Pismo to replace a broken screen, or gut her iBook to put in a bigger drive…. and believe you me, it’s a gutting. When there are more parts on the table than still attached to the machine, then you’ve successfully gutted the laptop.

But I also regularly troubleshoot computers for friends, family, co-workers, clients, just about anyone who finds out I have a Mac. And I don’t want these people, who obviously aren’t computer gearheads, worrying about how to replace their hard drive. And I sure as hell don’t want them asking me to do it, because if I mess it up, it costs everyone money. Let Apple take that chance, or their authorized tech people.

In the meantime, the Macbook Air, for the people interested in a computer for doing work looks like a very capable machine. The whole lack of an optical drive is still kind of weird, but on the other hand, so was the lack of a floppy drive when the iMac came out, and we all got over it. I’m willing to bet it’ll work out… and if it doesn’t work out for you, you gearhead you, don’t buy it.