Art is relative

Posted
November 24 2003

My friend Jotier payed me a visit today. He brought back my Pentium 166 box, which was a happy surprise since I had been meaning to ask him to do so, but never did. The reason I'm happy to see this old box, is that is has two graphic adapters that I can use, being the Graphics Blaster Exxtreme and the Voodoo Dragon 2.

I showed Jotier the movie from my Integration project, of which I've updated the page a little. It was not the only project page I've updated today. The unst logo on the unst project page is now linked to the font size settings of user agents. The method I used is a combination of XHTML and inline CSS. This is a rather nice menthod, and I think I'll be using it more often.

Code
<img alt="unst" height="29" src="logo.gif" style="height:2.9em;width:6.4em" title="" width="64" />

User Agents that do not read inline CSS will read the height and width attributes of the img element (which is 29 and 64 pixels). User Agents that do read inline CSS, however, will render the height of the image as the base font size value multiplied by 2.9, and will multiply the base font size by 6.4 to calculate the width.

I will be making more updates to the individual project and portfolio pages. I'm considering moving archived weblogs from the archives folder to the weblog folder. I'm also considering archiving weblog entries by week, day, and category (they're only archived by year and month now).

Last, but not least, I added axis="today" to the td in the Calendar table that contains the anchor link to the weblog entries of today. It is not supported properly by IE (what else is new?), but I figured it'd be more semantically correct. I've used this method before, and I'm not entirely sure why I ever removed it. Anyway, it will allow me to extra style the table cell that is associated with the current day (for Gecko based browsers at least).


ACJ