Month: August 2005

Reminder: create Yorkshire Liberation Army, duties to include ensuring that correct methods of Yorkshire Pudding manufacture are adhered to worldwide.

Holiday postcard 2: the joys of holiday shopping. I have an iPod :0)

Holiday postcard: weather hot, hotel nice, food abundant, lifestyle lazy, shopping frequent, work … forgotton!

I have an ideas book, in which I write ideas that I have. Mainly ideas for web applications, as that’s what my brain seems to be in tune with currently, but eventually there may be ideas for other things in there as well. My ideas book is always never far away from me (it’s at my side as I write) and it will be coming with me next week as I journey on one of those mythical beasts, A Summer Holiday.

The fact that any semblence of summer weather has all-but disappeared round here is doing little to dampen my spirits, for our Holiday will be taken far from here, in (hopefully) warmer climes. And, whether it rains or shines, the fact that it will be several days of uninterrupted nothing-much-at-all with la inamorata will mean that it will be fantastic.

So don’t expect much writing from me for a week or so, although if I remember I’ll try to do a bit of mo-blogging (mobile blogging, blogging from a mobile device).

However I leave you with this thought from my ideas book: if you could have a website that did anything you wanted, what would you want it to do? Obviously we’re talking in the realms of possibility here – no flying you to Mars or giving you chocolate through your screen. Answers in the comments, please.

The A List Apart redesign has been causing comments. Most notably from John Oxton who wonders why they have stopped 800×600 resolution screens from using their site. Well, not stopped, but you know what I mean.

A few days ago I said “That, to my mind, is another large nail in the coffin of 800×600.”, and while it still is, should it be? As John says, there are less people using Safari and Opera than there are using 800×600 resolution, yet webheads jump through hoops to cater for them. Why not people with smaller screens?

And it’s a very good point, especially in view of the current discussions on accessibility and availability. To my mind it would surely be better to cater to as many browsers as possible, but provide added benefits to those with stong CSS support, larger resolutions etc. Graceful degredation, I think they call it.

So, maybe 800×600 isn’t dead yet.