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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. This is the place your mother warned you about. This is the place where minimalism takes a smoke break and checks its voice mail.
About the site
This website was created out of need to continue writing about things of a technical nature. It is also a sandbox for the owner’s creativity. It is a constantly changing experiment in what a website should be.
It stated out as a place to keep a Fever installation. It was also a placeholder site for when something interesting came along on the web. WordPress became interesting again, and so that is what is showing you what you are reading right now.
The site’s links and blog posts were first written mostly in MarsEdit, now Windows Live Writer, published with the aforementioned WordPress, hosted on Joyent Accelerator. So much for the mystery, huh? There’s more fun in the credits section down at the bottom of this page. But what I bet you’re really wondering about is that background image, aren’t you?
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.
He believes that someday, he will get his due. All he has to do is keep working at it. And bribe some public officials.
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.
Okay, maybe I do care if it validates. But not so much that I’ll stay up until 5 am trying to fix it. Hacks are hacks, but they get the job done. If you can see this, I have done my job. If you can see this and it looks spiffy, I have done my job very well.
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.
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