Note: if you move the mouse around real fast while elements are switching visibility in IE/PC, the window.event.toElement reference can intermittently be null

Abbr vs Acronym

Subject: Netscape is dead (apparently, so is devedge – and it was just starting to get useful)

On the bright side, at least there won’t be any more Netscape 4 releases.

WebReference: Pure CSS2 Rollovers had the last bit I needed to fix the drop-down menu I’ve been working on (specifying 100% width in IE/PC to get the display:block link to activate properly). I still can’t find a way to get around specifying the width for the ul of menu items, but that’s ok, I guess.

This seems to work in everything I’ve tested but Opera so far, but I’m too tired to look into it right now. Maybe I should have tried basing this off of the nde js instead of the gazingus menus. …or better yet, find a less draining/frustrating line of work.

(The technical problems are actually the least of the concerns. With the re-org of the top menus, it’s time to look at rationalizing how the rest of the navigation behaves; currently the title blocks and sidebar navs jump between levels and displaying sibling/child items. This really has been in need of fixing since the whole ‘just get something up’ rush last summer.)

“Space” sickness OR “Mission: Space” scrubbed. Repeatedly. With disinfectant. – Jim Hill on Disney’s new Mission: Space ride.

I’ve been working on a presentation (on USC’s Pubcookie roll-out), and as usual, have been getting sidetracked by the mechanics of the presentation (I’ve been testing it on Mozilla only; in theory it should mostly work in Safari and IE, maybe even Opera) and have been adding little DOM-based doo-dads and gee-gaws.

Last Spring I’d taken Tantek’s SXSW 2003 presentation and gave it a slight overhaul, adding key-events and anchor fragments (allowing slide bookmarking). Today, I’ve spent time futzing with some auto-resizing functionality that currently autoresizes iframes, but should will be adding something to auto-resize all slides tonight auto-resizes and adds scollbars to slides.

• MSDN: Measuring Element Dimension and Location
• Mozilla DOM Reference: Example 6: getComputedStyle (see Bug 32169 [fixed])
• Glazblog: document.getElementsByClass() – including funky XPath version; thanks Jesse

blogs:

• Holovaty.com – the guy behind the incredibly hip Lawrence Journal-World sites
• Dylan Schimann’s Blog
• Matrix Essays
• In Passing
• John R Chang’s Blog
• blog.shrub
• Slate (redesign post)

R.I.P. Netscape

With the Mozilla Foundation (good) comes the bad of course. It was only a matter of time after the MS/AOL settlement, but it looks like Netscape is dead (Mozilla fortunately is alive and kicking). See also: ex-mozilla.org employee list

So, the Académie française’ has given a blessing for the official French equivalent of e-mail (courriel). Now, what are they going to call a ‘blog’?

(Apparently the big fuss about this whole thing is that the term originated from Quebec. The horror!)

Uwe Hermann has a useful vimrc