I like the idea of avatars that travel with you, but which of these is the “right thing”?
Gravatars are really popular and easy to implement, but it seems like the centralized nature would make it failure-prone and a privacy debacle waiting to happen.
Favatars are a cool idea. On the plus side, they’d start working right away. On the other hand, I’m not sure how many people have their own favicons, and the implementation would be a bit “fun”.
Pavatars have all the same problems as Favatars, they can just be bigger than 16x16px and aren’t tied to the favicon displayed by browsers.
which portable avatar is right for me?
October 2, 2006 4:08am (3 years, 9 months and 3 weeks ago)Comments
Oct 5, 2006 12:44am
You don’t like me watching what you’re doing?
What do you have to hide??
What do you have to hide??
Oct 5, 2006 2:43am
Keep watching and I’m sure you’ll find out.
Oct 6, 2006 11:20am
I like the effect… I think I’ll keep it.
I’ve yet to test it with IE 7, of course. I’m trying to decide if I should upgrade or not, seeing how much trouble that’d cause in testing web pages with IE 6. I can do the standalone thing, but IE 6 is craptacular and all the ActiveX stuff is broken that way.
Microsoft’s solution is I guess to run IE 6 in a virtual machine. I could see that, if it wasn’t so completely stupid. Le sigh.
I’ve yet to test it with IE 7, of course. I’m trying to decide if I should upgrade or not, seeing how much trouble that’d cause in testing web pages with IE 6. I can do the standalone thing, but IE 6 is craptacular and all the ActiveX stuff is broken that way.
Microsoft’s solution is I guess to run IE 6 in a virtual machine. I could see that, if it wasn’t so completely stupid. Le sigh.
Oct 6, 2006 1:19pm
I saw something about installing IE on Wine. I wonder how that would work for testing IE6.
I’ll probably keep a Windows 2000 virtual machine around with IE6 (since it can’t be upgraded to IE7).
I’ll probably keep a Windows 2000 virtual machine around with IE6 (since it can’t be upgraded to IE7).
Oct 7, 2006 3:02am
I’d complain (in jest of course) that your eyeballs don’t seem to be taking the scrollbar position into consideration when watching my mouse, but I’m afraid that you will bring it to my attention eight years from now just like the whole 45-degree pong thing.
Oct 7, 2006 3:03am
Oh, yeah. And that comment had nothing to do with this post also.
Oct 8, 2006 5:50am
I guess I should have posted about the eyeballs instead.
Maybe the scrolltop problem is because I’m setting onmousemove in the window instead of just the document. I think that was for some browser not implementing onmousemove for the document. I’ll have to play around with it more when I get home from San Antonio.
Maybe the scrolltop problem is because I’m setting onmousemove in the window instead of just the document. I think that was for some browser not implementing onmousemove for the document. I’ll have to play around with it more when I get home from San Antonio.
Oct 11, 2006 2:51am
The creepy eyeballs work great in IE 7. However, your site looks strange and dark in IE 7. There’s no white background color. It’s all that dark grey, 2B2B2C.
Oct 11, 2006 3:38am
D’oh… I believe that’s an effect of the “Holly hack” (setting the height of an element to 0 to force hasLayout in IE6). Or at least, that’s what was causing similar problems in Opera, at which point I did something to hide the hack to browsers other than IE. But I can’t remember what. I’ll have a look at 'er later.
Oct 11, 2006 8:23pm
Mmm… standards.
Oct 11, 2006 10:13pm
Standards would be nice.
Don’t blame me, blame that chair-stealing hippie Chris Wilson.
Don’t blame me, blame that chair-stealing hippie Chris Wilson.
Oct 12, 2006 1:34am
Have you tried
zoom:1.0; to force hasLayout? I sure haven’t…
Oct 12, 2006 3:30am
I wasn’t too impressed when I tried the first IE 7 beta, and setting
But in reality, I’ll be happy just for
And for Opera to stop placing elements wherever it feels like.
zoom:1 had a big impact on how several boxes were laid out. It’s weird and wrong.But in reality, I’ll be happy just for
left: and right: to work at the same time.And for Opera to stop placing elements wherever it feels like.
Oct 19, 2006 7:39am
Welp, IE 7 is released.
I guess they decided to make height not behave like min-height anymore, so yeah the
Amazingly, they didn’t fix the haslayout stupidity that made me use it in the first place. So now I’m using
Since I installed Ubuntu on my laptop, I wonder if I can use the OEM version of XP that came with it on Virtual PC to run IE 6. If not, maybe I can install 98SE on there.
I guess they decided to make height not behave like min-height anymore, so yeah the
height: 0%; holly hack screwed up my layout.Amazingly, they didn’t fix the haslayout stupidity that made me use it in the first place. So now I’m using
zoom: 1; to trigger haslayout on the white background container in IE7, and then * html to target IE6 with the holly hack.Since I installed Ubuntu on my laptop, I wonder if I can use the OEM version of XP that came with it on Virtual PC to run IE 6. If not, maybe I can install 98SE on there.
Oct 19, 2006 12:54pm
Why didn’t they just add a
If you can’t get Windows XP running on Virtual PC I might have an extra copy of Windows 2000 Professional around here somewhere. It sure beats Windows 98.
ms-has-layout CSS property? That would have saved us a lot of trouble.If you can’t get Windows XP running on Virtual PC I might have an extra copy of Windows 2000 Professional around here somewhere. It sure beats Windows 98.
Oct 19, 2006 12:55pm
Et tu, Redbo?
Oct 19, 2006 3:23pm
Weird, doesn’t look spammy to me. I wonder how I tell Akismet about false positives…
Oct 19, 2006 5:07pm
I mentioned four products explicitly. I also repeated the word Windows three times. However, unlike most spammers, I used the markup language that the system allows.
Oct 19, 2006 5:41pm
Hey yeah! Quit spamming my webpage!
Er… though I suppose in all fairness, I spammed yours first…
Er… though I suppose in all fairness, I spammed yours first…
Oct 19, 2006 7:03pm
What the heck is with that third link? What on Earth could that possibly…oh…”holdin' it down on the astrology tip, yo.” That cannot be serious.
Oct 19, 2006 9:37pm
Oh that’s your site? I stand by my statement.
Oct 20, 2006 3:20am
Don’t make fun… I’m the minister of astrology in the people’s republic of Funk.
OR… It was a joke between me and a friend of mine, and I threw the site together one Saturday night.
OR… It was a joke between me and a friend of mine, and I threw the site together one Saturday night.
Oct 20, 2006 11:39am
FYI, your eyeballs work fine on Safari 1.0 v85 on Mac OS X 10.2.6.
Oct 20, 2006 11:42am
Mike said:
Well, if you put it that way, then it’s all gravy.
Michael W. Jackson said:
Are you at Schlotzsky’s?
I’m the minister of astrology in the people’s republic of Funk.
Well, if you put it that way, then it’s all gravy.
Michael W. Jackson said:
FYI, your eyeballs work fine on Safari 1.0 v85 on Mac OS X 10.2.6.
Are you at Schlotzsky’s?
Oct 20, 2006 12:05pm
Dear Lord baby Jesus,
Please port Webkit to Windows and/or X-Windows.
Amen
Please port Webkit to Windows and/or X-Windows.
Amen
Oct 20, 2006 12:28pm
What ever happened to the Swift browser? Sure, it was missing quite a few features, but it showed promise as a developer’s tool. Why can’t he just move the project to SourceForge and be done with it?
Oct 20, 2006 10:45pm
Funny name. Serious sandwich. Indeed.
Nov 8, 2006 2:19pm
I like how the data recovery company sends you screenshots of your data with the bill. It’s like a ransom note.
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