Friday, December 6, 2002
At work today I completed another chunk of the interview reply forms that James requested. Lunch with Joel and Michael at Park Chow. It was Michael's first time. I helped him figure out what he needed to network computers at home. Joel and I had the burger royale with fries but we both got the burger on pizza dough instead of baguette. Delicious! Michael got minestrone-like soup and a salad. Met with Chris Cullander and Kevin Souza about Ilios; Chris wants us to hop on board their project, and that's fine by me. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover orzo and pork chops. Worked on Domenica's site: every page in the site now validates as XHTML 1.1 and looks as perfect as CSS will allow in Mozilla 1.1 and Netscape 7 and IE6! The whole site is entirely free of HTML table tags—it's all CSS divs. My first such site and it was a huge pain in the ass. Don't ever let anyone tell you that CSS gives you complete control over every page element you can imagine. Yeesh! Still must test in older browsers then on all Mac browsers. I'm certain now that the W3C validator was changed recently because it no longer seems to honor the SYSTEM doctype I specify in my sites. Grr! I looked at Tina's site, which had previously validated properly and it too was not validating now, so I fixed it all up. It's a small site, so it took only about half an hour.