Did I Say That

Yes Shirley, even on Safari

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.custombutton {padding:0;margin:0;border:none;background:none;cursor:pointer;}
* html .custombutton {cursor:hand;} /* alternate cursor style for ie */
</style>
<form action=”">
<button class=”custombutton” type=”submit” name=”foo” value=”bar”><img src=”/images/something_btn.gif” alt=”Something!” /></button>
</form>

All submit buttons should be replace with

<button class=”custombutton” type=”submit” name=”foo” value=”bar”><img src=”/images/something_btn.gif” alt=”Something!” /></button>

It shouldnt affect form processing, but when added to a form, and using the css above, it will “hide” the button, and leave only the image as a button.

Dear god, my head, my beautiful head - I have no idea what I was thinking drinking that much this weekend.

As it happens I was invited by some people over to their place as part of their ANZAC activities - basically a bbq that turned into a great fecking party. Dont know the number, but the conversation, the booze and the smoking werre flowing freely. Twas a great day for all - early afternoon drinking til late night drinking is always a good thing (as long as you pace yourself, which I did)

Also never, ever bring a dessert to a bbq that can be used as weaponery - I made the mistake of bringing mini meringues. Of the 30 or so I brought, two were eaten, the rest were either left alone or used as some form of discus based weapons So fun was had by all

Guy, Victor and the rest - you know who ye all are, and congrats on a fine activity for all.

Every now and then I see websites about all sorts of material. Some good, some bad, some funny, some well designed, some badly designed - but only a tiny few are memorable.

Ladies, gentlemen, republicans, conservatives, all other political and religious groups (too many to name, but we love you all), I give you

Stuff God Hates

Thought I’d post about the gig las Tuesday - fecking fantastic.

5:30 - was out of work like a hot snot And straight to the pub for a few samples of beverages of an alcoholic variety. They went down a treat - however I did giggle at the unfortunate guy was ossified by 6:30 and who was still going to the gig. I’d say his memory of it was hazy at best

Anyway sauntered over after the doors open - with my e-ticket. Big time note, if you are using ticketmaster’s e-ticket facility, you really, really, really need a decent printer to print the tickets of - otherwise they wont scan in, people get grumpy and you end up suffering needlessly.

So in the doors, paid the usual over-priced fee for double JD and coke in the Ambassador - most Irish concert venues, Point Depot, Ambassador, etc charge over the mark for drink or they dont have a “full bar”. But they had JD, they had coke, the bar girl was cute, and I was plished.

So plished that I went into the smoking area and smoked. Yes for the first time in 4 years I was sucking down Malboros as if they were going out of fashion. Or atleast i it was an apocalypse.

Smoking away, chatting to all and sundry - even managing a couple of games of “guess how old I am” - which was fun.

The gig came and went, and it was great - good tunes, good atmosphere, asshole-ism kept to a minimum, so I staggered back across the road to finish off the night in style.

Eventually got home, and passed out, slept on my sofa - lovely.

The next morning, I apologised to several friends for ignoring them at said concert….they didnt reply back

Next time - my adventures at Elliot Minor with the sprog - oh dear

Ta - da

Just wondering about this - the handling of site navigation can be a tricky bastard at the best of times, and the larger the site, the more “unmanageable” navigation can appear to get.

From your own experiences, would you always plan navigation first, design second, etc. Or is it a case of **** that, lets get making with the web sites?

Personally I try (atleast now) to plan for all potential pages, user flows, etc before I even put hand to mouse. It does allow for a better overall view of the site and what is required. But sometimes the navigation can get overwhelming at the worst of times - especially if you are dealing with sites that require technically different navigation options depending on the status of the user - logged in, not logged in, logged in but looking at someone’s else account - very like most social network sites.

Would people consider splitting the navigation out into two manageable navs or try for the holy grail of single nav with dropdowns and/or flyouts?

Or just a standard nav for all, with custom section/user specific navigation depending on their status and/or what they are looking at?

Answers via a postcard, sky writing, pony express or through reading the entrails of honest politician

Oh what to do.

Bit of a quandry here. Do I continue making mobile sites available to all - even though WML based sites are at best, a read only type interface.

Or do I throw out the old (ala IE 5.5) and concentrate on the future - XHTML MP and so on. It allows for a much better interface, a lot more “playing around” and given the amount of interactivty required on the sites I make (large page sizes too) - I am leaning away from a “one for all” type solution to a “way of the future”.

Simply because time is never a friend with any project to be completed - its an all or nothing situation. I can spend time making a site that, in theory, will work for all (to a certain extent) or I can spend my time making pretty neat interfaces for XHTML-MP capable phones and “sod WML” (well it is deprecated) - however all phones (except the iPhone) understand and can render WML.

For the time being, I think I will continue the “one for all” method, however given that more and more content would be made available to phones, that kind of pushes WML-only phones to the back of the line, since most WML-only phones are

a) crappy

b) have a terrible deck size/page size capability and

c) are not capable of playing video

Yes, well after nearly a year of checking on and off, it turned out that an iTunes update told me that Safari was out of beta for Windows. In fact its now 3.1 for Windows.

I have installed it, so now its time to play with it - and probably use it for testing in work

Safari browser information

Just a small list of what the iPhone cannot support

• Modal dialogs
• Mouse-over events
• Hover styles
• Tooltips
• Java applets
• Flash
• SVG
• XSLT
• Plug-in installation
• Custom x.509 certificates
• WML
• File uploads and downloads

Which is funny since so far all adverts for the iphone say you can browser the web - what they forgot to mention was that only certain parts of the web will work

Gah - I hate you all!

Messing up my plans, messing up my resourcing, grrrr so irritating. Especially when people come in at the start of the day and are effectively gone within 2 hours.

Time to start another search for Web head - guys or girls can apply via newbay.com/careers.php

The job should be titled Web/Mobile Web developer