Eklog

Here’s a few tips to bear in mind now we have a new range of browsers.

Accessibility needs are becoming more important as a solution to giving cross-browser accessibility to everyone. It’s not just people who have accessibility needs, now it’s devices, or ‘thin clients’ which are having accessibility issues.

There’s some new rules for ensuring your web site works with browser zoom or in the new mobile browsers.

Phone browsers

There’s two new browsers in town: Apple IPhone and Opera Mini (testing on version 3.1.2). They shrink full websites down to a small screen size.

1. Css media=”handheld” is ignored by the iPhone and Opera mini browsers. They think they’re real browsers. Any style-sheet with media=”screen” will be rendered by these phone browsers.

2. Zoom isn’t a raster zoom. The text font size is reduced independently to the spacial elements. It should be reduced by exactly the same amount but it doesn’t always work perfectly.

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I’ve decided I’m going to create the world’s first truly global empire. An empire created primarily without the military, through economics. We will work many different ways, but perhaps the most common is that we will identify a third world country that has resources our corporations covet, like oil, and then arrange a huge loan to that country from the world bank or one of its sister organisations. But the money never actually goes to the country. Instead it goes to our own corporations to build big infrastructure projects in that country. Things like power plants and industrial parks and highways that benefit a few wealthy families in that country as well as our own corporations, but don’t help the majority of people. The whole country is left holding this huge debt. And it’s such a big debt that they cannot repay it.
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How happy is Today going to be?

Nuannar-poq: Inuit for ‘taking extravagant pleasure in being alive’

Is happiness a goal to be achieved. Is the purpose of life to be happy? Is it a state of mind to take on?

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mohandas K. Gandhi

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. – Freys Stark

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -happiness, freedom, and peace of mind – are always attained by giving them to someone else. – Peyton Conway March

How happy is the homeless person who finds a fifty pound note? Should we be sleeping rough?

people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller

Not one shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. – Brendan Gill
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Happy New Year!!!!