Compliance with standards

This site is a proud member of the Viewable With Any Browser campaign.

I have made a concerted effort to keep the HTML on this site standard, clean, and portable. These pages use no Netscape- or Internet Explorer-specific tags, and the few bits of JavaScript are ECMA-compliant. I only use JavaScript to generate the last-modified dates at the upper-right-hand of each new-style page. You can disable JavaScript without missing much. The HTML has been designed to degrade gracefully in a non-CSS-aware browser. The contents of the left menu bars should appear before main text. Almost all the HTML is XHTML (4.0.1 transitional) that has been validated.

If you see broken images, get a browser that can view PNGs. This is a GIF-free site. The GIF patents are expired everywhere now, but PNG has better quality per compressed byte and I feel cleaner when I use it.

This site uses no Flash, Shockwave, or other such proprietary trash.

Reporting problems

I have made an honest attempt to create these pages to the best of my ability. However I am human and tend to make mistakes every once and a while. With that in mind; there are two kind of bugs that can cause this website to render badly in your browser. One is problems in the HTML/CSS/JavaScript I use; the other is bugs in your browser, including failures to comply with W3C standards.

I am very willing to fix any code on my page that is borked, and will make an honest attempt to fix it quickly, however I will not take the time to ensure that my webpage works well with every version of every browser ever made! So you know I use the linux version of Firefox, currently v1.0, and that is it. From time to time I check my page with Internet Exploere from work, but it is not to ensure that the page renders well, it is so I can refrence something quickly.

Design philosophy

I have designed this site for the 2 main purposes, 1 to convay information that I have; 2 to help me learn HTML and assoicated standards. That is all! I have not made this site to look prety, not to show you that I'm better at HTML than so and so, or anything else to these effects. I haven't the time.