One of my most desired features in Firefox is to have a “Split Window” view, like you can have in Microsoft Word (and probably others too). It displays the same document in two panes, one above the other and lets you scroll to a different position in each each. Immensely useful if you’re trying to keep track of a previous part of a document while reading further on.
Students’ Social – the somewhat desolate interweb community run by myself and David Thompson – is going to be down for a few days.
Following my recent work on the website for Resin, I came across Five Mistakes… about designing band sites. It’s an interesting read, makes some interesting points and confirms that I need to rethink the navigation. Jo raised concerns over whether the ‘popout’ style of the nav menus was really any good and I’ve been pondering the same before and since, especially in the light of having found other and worse implementations of ‘drop down’ navigation at work.
Something which has always bugged me about MP3 (or whatever compression format you’re using today) is the complete irrelevance of the <var>Genre</var> field in ID3 tags. It’s rubbish. Why media players continue to offer me the choice of browsing by genre is beyond me – what does a list that contains, for instance, “Rock & Punk”, “Punk”, “Alternative Rock”, “Alt.Rock”, “Soft Rock” actually mean? What is the difference between songs in each of those ‘catagories’.
I’m going through a little ‘collect my Blog’ phase, having got myself linked into Technorati and – with a bit of luck – the below image will sort out BlogShares. It’s nice to mark something as my own. ;)
This was posted to the CSS public mailing list (www-style) today.
This should traditionally probably go in the side-links section. However, having listened to it twice, this new recording by PTA (whose membership includes one-quarter former housemate) is so damn good it needs to be plugged right here, right now.
Wishing you well and that you may indulge the Christmas spirit (of your choice) in a way that doesn’t get you hurt.