CoderJoe.net

Stage 2 was released on sunday.

“But it looks the same!”, you cry.

That’s the point.

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Well, JosephBauser.net Stage 1 is completed.

Now with 100% more Web 2.0!

This means that the layout is finalized, the navigation works, and the javascript is almost where I want it.

In addition the application degrades gracefully, so those of us with old browsers can still navigate just fine.

(Don’t believe me? Turn off javascript and see for yourself!)

I welcome comments on the design and layout, but please keep comments about color preferences to yourself. Keep in mind though that while all suggestions will be considered very few if any will be implemented.

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There has been constant debate amongst myself and some of my other web loving friends as to the correct solution for cross browser and platform font sizing. For the longest time I swore that fonts in IE seemed a step smaller than the fonts in my beloved KHTML and Gecko based browsers. Finally I’ve found a story to confirm my suspicions. It would seem that internet explorer renders default text as text size small as opposed to medium as defined in the CSS-1 spec.

Where did I find this out? Did I do emperical tests to discover this flaw? No, but someone else did. See the links below for more info (as well as a test formatting stylesheet which allows one to “safely” use em’s to cross browser and platform style their text sizes.

http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/font/index.html

http://www.alistapart.com/stories/sizematters/