I'm a 31 year old American expat living in Oslo, Norway, with my bulldog, Ada, and my husband, Johannes. My interests include interaction design, especially information architecture, philosophy of mind and ethics, cognitive psychology, sociobiology, feminism, yoga, fat acceptance, knitting, pottery, and cooking.I hate web design.
I hate it.
So I’ve been working on a new design for this thing since I converted to WordPress. I came up with a new design, but I didn’t like it. So I decided to go back to the old design. Which I have to recreate, since when MT crapped out on me I lost all the templates and HTML pages. So I’m recreating it, and I get it to work, then all of a sudden it doesn’t work, despite the fact that I didn’t change anything. Also the pages where I got the basic layout (footer bottom, even when the main text is shorter than the viewport), pages that used to work, no longer work. In Mozilla or r IE. Or an online example page will work, but when I copy it exactly to a page on my computer, it won’t work.
Why have web standards not progressed since, like, 1999? XHTML, which is really not any kind of an improvement, was 1999. CSS2 was frickin’ 1997. That’s almost 10 years ago. And we still have to use hacks like this:
#container {
position: relative;
min-height: 100%;
height: 100%;
voice-family: "\"}\"";
voice-family: inherit;
height: auto;
}
html>body #container {
height: auto;
}
to get things to work. I mean, WTF? This is the frickin’ web, people. How can the building blocks of the web have stagnated so much? I mean, we don’t use wattle and daub for making houses any more. Why do we still have to resort to crap like tables for layout in order to get decent cross-browser compatibility?
People are actually reading this blog now. I feel like I’m having visitors over and there’s dog hair and dirty dishes all over everywhere.