I encountered three issues of note, one well-known and two obscure. Try doing a print preview on this page, for example.ĬSS is used for all layout on the site. I later added print CSS styles, which format the content for the printed page and eliminates the navigational elements. This also improves the maintainability of the site. (See the Web Standards Project for more information.) Accessibility is vastly improved, and compatibility broadened (in terms of current and future browsers, and alternate devices). Tables are used only for tabular data, there are no spacer gifs, and only standard structural tags are used. In the latest major revision, I updated the site from badly outdated markup to the latest Web standards: 100% strict XHTML 1.0 with CSS used for all presentation (see chroma.css). For the first version of this site in 1999, I used a Power Mac 8500 running Mac OS 8, with an earlier version of BBEdit and the classic paint program Studio/32 from Electronic Arts (several features of which are still not matched by Photoshop!). The latest major revision of this site (completed January 2005) was developed mostly on my 15-inch PowerBook G4. ![]() The site is currently maintained on my Mac Pro. Software I use includes Mac OS X, BBEdit, Acorn, Photoshop, OmniGraffle, Cornerstone, Interarchy, Feeder, and Integrity. ![]() The mailing list has, since 2006, been hosted by my friend Chris Masterton, also here in Vancouver. The site has, since January 2005, been hosted by eHosting.ca, an excellent hosting company in Vancouver, BC. This page includes information on Web standards, the PHP framework developed for the site, and brief notes on Google Sitemaps and Google Analytics.
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