Friday, October 4, 2002
Free Palm Apps?
My brother called (or emailed) me the other day and asked me if I knew of any good (and free) palm games. Most of the ones that I knew about were also the same ones that he had tried. I decided to try to put together a list of those free (and almost free) Palm applications that myself and others have found to be somewhat entertaining, or even useful. You can find this list in the right column. If you have suggestions for this list, let me know in the comments section of this post OR
email me.
5:21:46 PM 
I Could Have Used Tests Like This In School
I sent my site through the
validator at
W3C and it had 42 errors. I would think that would be enough for it to tell me to come back when my site was up to snuff. Nope. It said, "Congratulations! This document validates as CSS!". All right! I will go back however and review each of it's suggestions and see what's up. If this is like most HTML verifiers I've used in the past, it's almost impossible to get a perfect bill-of-health out of it.
4:34:10 PM
Audible Pages? Not with IE.
I did some looking on the net and found
information regarding the "voice" properties. It seems that this allows you to select the voice that a screen reader uses to read your pages in the same way that you select fonts for your text. This would allow one to convey the mood of a page to a screen-reader user by picking appropriate voices. Seems like a great idea to me, but the fact remains that those tags blew up my page in Internet Explorer. Everything I read about CSS points to Internet Explorer as a browser that "mostly" supports CSS, but not completely. Unfortunately, in this case, it doesn't just ignore these unrecognized tags but completely stumbles over itself in trying to work with them. The Gecko rendering engine (Netscape/Mozilla/Chimera) renders it just fine.
1:54:39 PM
Problem Solved. What is "voice-family"?
After messing with font-family and font-size properties in a bunch of my selectors, with no success, I found the following properties that I was not familiar with:
voice-family:"\"}"";
voice-family:inherit;
These weren't listed in any of my books, so I deleted them. Problem solved!! Everything worked much much better after that. I got some of the basic selector formats from another site... I'm curious what these properties are and what issue they were supposed to solve.
10:15:50 AM
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