About this site
Server Side Includes (SSI)
I am now, thanks to htmlite, making use of Server side includes. These allow repetitive parts of webpages to be (as the name suggests) inculuded by the internet server at the time of request by a client (browser) rather than the author including them at the time of writing. A statement of the form:<!--#include file="bit.html" --> is added to the page where the content is required. Very useful.
Standards compliance
This page has been written to comply with internet standards. No effort has been made to accommodate browsers that do not comply with the standards laid down by the independent W3C. If your browser does not display this page with a left aligned menu, coloured header and footer and underlined titles ... it's time to update your browser. Try these (which all include the usual features)
- Mozilla 1.0 - the most standards compliant browser, I find it a little slow.
- Opera 6 - very fast, good on standards, uses mouse gestures (!), small and so easy to download.
- Internet Explorer 6 - Microsoft's most compliant browser, still not stunning.
- Netscape 7 - a Gecko based browser? Now from AOL?
Other browsers - eg those listed here (download.com), are available but might not be as up to date as the above. Both Mozilla and Opera are available for Win, *nix, Mac (at least). There's a version of IE for the Mac (which I gather is better than IE in its native environment - go figure!).
This page is valid CSS according to the W3C (the WorldWide Web Consortium) but the XHTML won't validate as Geocities adds a load of invalid stuff on the end, otherwise it's valid. Also the counter might throw up some errors, haven't checked yet.
Browser test
The (rough) results of my tests. Here nicely means the styles display nicely; not that the browser meets standards.
- Navigator 4.51 - doesn't even attempt to use the stylesheet
- IE 6.0 - displays nicely
- Opera 6.01 - displays quite nicely, sadly doesn't appear to display the repositioned 'smart' mouseover messages, possibly because of a minus sign used in the absolute positioning of these span elements.
- Mozilla 1.0 - displays nicely
- Netscape 6.6 (uses the same Gecko engine as Mozilla 1.0) - displays nicely
- Others ... if you're on a Mac and use Mac/IE or iCab (or something else) let me know how this looks for you. Thanks.
