Farlops Industries

On March 13th around 5:55 in the morning, I had just finished installing MovableType. It’s actually a well written piece of software, at least by my naive technician’s eyes, but, I simply don’t like the way the URLs are implemented. Some of directories MT creates don’t terminate in an index page. To me that’s a [...]

It’s been fun. It’s been nearly 4 years since I installed Greymatter and then extensively changed it to meet my needs. But now that I see that the Fish was able to install version 3.1 of MovableType and we share the same server, it’s time for me to explore this. I’ve read that it has [...]

With a small amount of help from me, Baka has been working on a layout-table-free, semantic and pure CSS facelift for his site. He had just sent his penultimate draft to me last night. I looked it over and it looks nearly perfect! It renders just fine in Firefox and even IE6 on Windows. Opera [...]

As I’ve mentioned repeatedly, back in the late Nineties I was the webmaster for Microsoft’s accessibility pages. Back in those days IE for Windows was really the only game in town for CSS support but, I’d read about the WaSP, saw where the future was headed and became a true believer. But rather than repeat [...]

My news feeds are getting out of hand. I now have more wonderful stuff to read than I have I have time. So in a effort to follow these things up later, when the Web hits a dry patch, I plan to save the links here with brief descriptions. This is mostly for my benefit [...]

So let’s see if I can add a new entry with the XStandard editor! Yes, I can. Later, upon entry revision, I see that if I add something to the extended area but later erase it, XStandard retains a nonbreaking space bounded by paragraph tags. Sigh. Still, much better than my javascript hack that I’ve [...]