One time I used to live in a remote valley of the Sierra Nevada mountains along the Feather river. It was a peaceful place and I long to return there but it cannot be. One day I saw this young pretty woman sitting on a bench doing nothing but smiling and waving at every passer by traveling along highway 70 not far from Beldon CA.
So I went to see a friend who is an elderly fellow I've known him for about 20 years. He has been losing his vision and was diagnosed a couple years ago with macular degeneration. He can read letters that are about 1.5 inches high with difficulty but he could read it.
He had paid about two thousand for this laptop specially configured for those with vision problems.
I go there to fix some things and he shows me this new computer that he has some difficulty using and it becomes abundantly clear that the designers of these pieces of software have NO clue about the issues and difficulties inherent with having low vision or near blindness.
One would think they would at least consult some qualified individuals or at least get input from a person with low vision but either they failed to do that or they did not listen.
So I created a store on Zazzle.com featuring my first product, a tee shirt that says "Please remove me from the milk cartons. I'm not missing I'm stuck in traffic.
Been thinking of a simple way to express the problems with computer security where each measure is simply answered by an equally resourceful counter-measure and finally I thought up a hilarious way to describe it.
IT security is like building walls of ice cream to keep the ants out.
If a web page with drop-down menus is not displaying correctly on iPad or iPhone with the Safari web browser the cause may be that the browser on these devices may not support the :after pseudo-class.
A common CSS construct that is in use is the :after pseudo-class. It's a rather useful construct to prevent issues where you might have a dropdown menu but elements below the dropdown menu end up pushed to the side or text is wrapping around when they it should not.
A new word has come into my world today. "Pedants".
Pedants are those who champion correctness over originality when it comes to language to the point of excess. This is often a problem because its difficult to be analytical, and pedantic, and to be creative at the same time.
In this video Stephen Fry expresses in his wonderful British way what I and probably many of us had wished to say for a very long time but did not have the words.
This morning I ran into some trouble where I had a flash player the client wanted to play music on some pages but be invisible except on one particular page where he wanted it to show.
Now flash players can be a bit picky. If any of its containers is or becomes hidden hidden such as having it's display attribute set to none, the player will stop playing or never start. They insist on being visible, even if too small to see.
