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The HTML Blues...
Even the HTML
Swiss Army Knife is not immune
to the idiosyncracies and disparities between browsers.
Witness the new look and feel in EX
3.2, which sought to achieve full-bleed layouts by
means of (ick!) single-pane framesets. Originally written to work all
the way down to Netscape 2.0, the HTML Knife
found out much to his chagrin that the code shut out Lynx users by
accident. Oy vey!
Try as he might, the HTML Knife
found no way to accomodate Lynx under the
previous scheme, short of copying and pasting every page into the
<NOFRAMES> portion of the enclosing
framesets. And this would have been—pardon the French—a
royal pain in the @$$.
What the hell, shrugged the HTML
Knife, and took the path of least resistance: gone are the framesets,
replaced by zero-margin parameters in the
<BODY> tag of each
page. While this works for Netscape 4 as well as Internet Explorer
3 and 4, users of Netscape 3 will have to do without the nifty zero
offsets.
Hey, at least Lynx users can read the magazine again.
On the flipside...
If the redesign met with such woes, they seem to have gone unnoticed
by our readers, who unanimously voted "thumbs up" on the new look.
Thank you for your support! Now please excuse the HTML
Knife while he goes to sack the two lone individuals who griped. (j/k)
Coming next issue...
Anime Expo 1998 will take place on July 3-5 at the Anaheim Hilton.
As usual, EX will be on location to
bring you the low-down on the news and happenings from the
premiere US anime convention.
If you're attending the convention, be sure to swing by
the EX panel! It's your chance to meet
Scott Frazier, and he's even funnier in person than in writing!
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Yours Truly,
Keith Rhee
The HTML Swiss Army Knife |
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