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Welcome to d3ft.com, a tawdry dreck of a virtual filling station by a street corner without an onramp to the information superhighway.
About the site
This site is written in MarsEdit, published with WordPress, hosted on Joyent Accelerator. So much for the mystery. But what I bet you’re wondering about is that background image.
You know, the star–looking thing (☆). If you’ve got a display resolution of 1024 by 768, you should be able to make out its distinctive shape. That background image is held in place with the nifty “fixed” image property. For that, we can thank the browser wars of the late 90s.
About the writer
His name is John. He’s been to Mt. Ranier.
About web standards
I’ll need to remind you of when I last mentioned the 90s browser wars. That’s where somebody came up with the idea to stick background images in place, so you could scroll a page without it moving. Some people love it, some people hate it. I use it on this site.
But I’m not entirely sure why we keep changing the standards. What was so wrong about the CENTER tag? Maybe that’s why they’re using <div align="center"></div> and I don’t care if my page validates.
By the way, I don’t check to see if Internet Explorer displays this site correctly. Nor Opera. Or anything other than Safari or Firefox. If it isn’t Gecko (Firefox, Camino) or WebKit (Safari, Chrome), I just don’t care.
Just to be clear, it isn’t that I can’t, it’s that I don’t.