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Site News
A site update blog detailing often small changes occuring on the saila.com.
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August 26, 2005
Hid the subscribe box and showed the search box in the menu Changed the spotlit items on the homepage. -
February 6, 2004
Removed the small ads and hit counter found under the navigation menu -
February 26, 2004
Updated the Creative Commons information to include rel="license" and the RDF content -
September 30, 2003
I’ve added three new sites to my blogroll: Lars Holst’s, dionidium.com, and Anne van Kestere’s Weblog about Markup & Style. (I also removed a few stale sites…) Also, offsite links now open in the current browser window as opposed to a pop-up -
August 8, 2003
Some pages are carrying ads from Google AdSense, as part of a trial run. If you have an questions, please contact saila.com -
May 14, 2003
Added five new Web Building Tips on CSS and creating valid HTML -
May 6, 2003
Added rel="bookmark" to the permalinks in Living Can Kill You -
May 6 2003
My deletion of the global style sheet is causing problems for Safari and Konqueror users, how now see a blank screen on the homepage. Think its due to a lack of support for document.createTextElement but I’m not yet sure -
April 23, 2003
The homepage once again displays as it should in older browsers like Netscape 4.x -
April 8, 2003
Fixed the permalinks for Living Can Kill You entries -
April 4, 2003
Added a new column about the site’s impending redesign -
March 18, 2003
The site should function a bit better in Opera 7 (i.e., it should behave closer to Gecko-based browsers). I’m hoping it won’t cause problems in IE 5.x now -
March 1, 2003
Added a new, reader-submitted “origin” to “Why end with 30?” -
February 15, 2003
A little over a year after this template started getting some public attention, I’m tweaking it ever so slightly. Before “officially” releasing it, I’d like to get it tested. Please report any problems (including the browser and operating system). Thanks -
December 28, 2001
Updated and fixed some links in the Recommended Links section -
December 19, 2002
The contents of saila.com are now covered under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial License. In certain cases, I may add a more restrictive licence on the a work, but it will be clearly declared -
December 9, 2002
Cleaned up some Recommended Links, and I’ve began tightening up the site’s HTML (like some anorexic anchors) -
November 3, 2002
Begun replacing email links with a feedback form -
October 11, 2002
Fixed the permissions (I hate permissions), so you can again comment on the LCKY entries -
October 8, 2002
Not sure about the usability of this one, but the menu is now automatically “unfixed” if it is longer than the browser window in Gecko-based browsers -
September 30, 2002
The site now has a CSS Signature of www-saila-com. This allows you to alter the appearance of saila.com in your user-defined style sheets -
August 25, 2002
Added Marek Prokop’s abbr fix for IE/Windows -
August 25, 2002
A new version of the Special Characters Converter was released allowing both entities and characters converted -
August 23, 2002
Did some modifications to the structure of the Web Design Tips. Now each tip is on its own page. This reduces download time, and makes the tips more flexible. Also added was the ability to show just a subset of tips -
August 13, 2002
The Special Characters Converter is having some problems right now. Expect an upgrade in the next couple of days -
August 9, 2002
Updated the Special Characters Converter and added some link elements to the templates -
August 1, 2002
saila.com begins its sixth year as this site’s domain -
July 23, 2002
Fixed an annoyingly persistent JavaScript bug that only appeared on the homepage in IE 6. Also removed the text-scaling feature, again, because I was unhappy with the results, again -
July 16, 2002
Josh Feingold alerted me to a problem in IE 5.0/Windows. Apparently it has a similar problem with the tools menu as IE 5.5/Windows did. Unfortunately it looks to have a different solution, which, until found, means IE 5.0/Windows users won’t be able to see the tools menu.Gecko-based browsers should be able to scale the font size (again) by resizing the browser. Though it also works on IE, I don’t like the visual result (there’s a flash before the text is resized) so until that is solved it will remain Gecko-only -
July 12, 2002
For the first time in recent memory, a version of a Netscape browser is now the second most common browser used to visit this site. The good news, it’s identified as Netscape 6. Opera 6 also breaks into the top five. Here are the top 10, by percentage: -
July 8, 2002
An addition to style switcher caused IE 5.5/Windows to not load this site. The problem, pointed out by “ecd” on css-discuss, relates to a bug I’d encountered before in that browser, but forgotten about. It should now be fixed -
June 18, 2002
Updated the option menus so that they now close when you click anywhere on the browser canvas. And, in Gecko-based browsers, the Tools menu now has an option to fix/unfix the navigation menu so it can scroll with the page -
June 14, 2002
Added some more entries to the Web Building Tips -
June 5, 2002
Overcame some obstacles (which included some hope jumping) and managed to indicate how many comments have been made about a Living Can Kill You entry. Though not ideal, it’s a decent enough hack. Also added the Special Characters Converter to the “Links” area of the homepage. -
June 24, 2002
Fixed some minor aesthetic problems in the option menus as displayed by the Windows version of Internet Explorer 5.x -
May 27 and 28, 2002
Adding a couple of tips about special characters and one about indexing sites to the Web Building Tips. Also built the Special Characters Converter -
May 14, 2002
Now that everything seems to be moving smoothly, I will be sending out the much delayed newsletter shortly. Also planning on some minor additions to the Glossary and Web Building Tips -
May 9, 2002
The options menus and homepage should now load, without error, in IE 5.x. Thanks to the readers who helped me narrow the problem down -
May 7, 2002
Fixed a homepage error that appeared in IE 6, tightened up the JavaScript error-catching for Opera, but am stumbling on a new problem: it doesn’t seem one can set an input’s type attribute via the DOM… -
May 6, 2002
Moved out some minor design changes, as well as a complete reworking of many dynamic elements so that they will be created through the DOM. The latter change has not been thoroughly tested, and is known to cause some problems in Opera. Over the next few days these will be fixed… -
April 15, 2002
Created a section for photographs in the Attic -
March 16, 2002
You can now comment on the Living Can Kill You posts -
March 11, 2002
Updated the Web Design Resources section with some new resources and templates—including some CSS-based ones -
March 5, 2002
The Web Building Tips are now available for syndication, all you need is one little line of HTML, and your page will display a common Web design question linked to the answer. Get saila.com’s Web Building Tips now -
March 3, 2002
Added a feature letting Living Can Kill You be alerted by email when there’s a new posting -
February 14, 2002
Corrected two display problems that presented the privacy statement (how ironic) as well as the homepage (in Opera 5.x) from displaying -
January 28, 2002
Made the main navigation DOM-compliant, and as a result it is a bit “smarter”—the title now provides more helpful tips. Unfortunately, it still does not work in IE 5 on the Macintosh -
January 24, 2002
Added dates to this News page’s items. In DOM-compliant browsers, the actual date of the entry will be displayed. All browsers will have the items broken down by month -
January 23, 2002
Moved the Living Can Kill You blurb into the centre, and the Site News into the right column. Looking into a way to automatically push the LCKY item to the top when it’s new… -
January 23, 2002
More work on Living Can Kill You, this time altering the way the archives are listed in an attempt to make the search-engine-friendly -
January 14, 2002
Added a small BlobSnob ad under the Reading List of Living Can Kill You. These grassroots initiatives to promote each other’s work are admirable—this one was initiated by an 18-year-old in India -
December 27, 2001
Just in time for “One page, many designs”, saila.com now has a number of different designs for Netscape 6, Mozilla, and other Gecko-based browsers to try -
December 21, 2001
Fixed some problems with the Links box on the homepage, as well as the Mini Web Reference -
December 18, 2001
Opera (versions 5 and 6) is once again displaying the table-free, CSS-based layout. Unfortunately, because of Opera’s poor DOM support, the dynamic functionality is not available in that browser -
December 13, 2001
Added a new guideline to the Steadfast Suggestions for Web Design and cleaned it up slightly -
December 1, 2001
Made a variety of minor tweaks to help prevent Mozilla 0.9.6 from crashing all the time. Along with those tweaks are a few minor stylistic improvements that, in a dose of irony, work best in Mozilla -
November 17, 2001
Updated the About section to include information on syndicating the site, PDA-friendly pages, and an archive of the site news -
November 7, 2001
For some reason, the browser identification system I’ve been using successfully for over three years is no longer working. Still tracking down the reason, but until it’s fixed, you be seeing the old-look site (and a notification encouraging you to upgrade your browser) even if you have the latest browser -
October 16, 2001
Display problems for IE 5+ browsers at Living Can Kill You have been fixed, and the white space to the left of banner up top should be gone, too. (If you notice something odd, let me know) -
October 4, 2001
As I mentioned last week, saila.com is switching to a server using ASP, which will require some substantial changes to the site’s architecture. I hope you won't notice any disruptions as the work gets underway, as the end result will allow for a more interactive and open saila.com -
October 5, 2001
Added text-based icons to the Web Design Tips to indicate the type of tip. As the list grows, I will likely arrange these tips by category -
October 5, 2001
Got a PDA? You can now take saila.com with you. Under the Options or Personalize menu there’s a class of links called “To Go”. AvantGo creates a channel for the eponymous PDA browser, and DOC File makes a Palm-friendly file of the Web page using the technology from Screwdriver -
October 4, 2001
>There’s now a headline feed from saila.com you can access to include in your site. It’s a simple XML-based RSS file, so it can be used to distribute this site’s content. You can see an example of what’s possible with the content through UserLand -
September 25, 2001
Due to some changes with my web hosting company, the back-end of saila.com will be undergoing some major changes over the next couple of months. So, if anyone knows some good ASP tutorials online, let me know -
September 14, 2001
I decided to put a call for donations to the Canadian Red Cross' disaster relief campaign throughout saila.com following the events of September 11. -
August 30, 2001
Keeping with the fluid design of the site, the text scales proportionately to the width of the browser when you resize the browser. Fonts too big? Narrow the browser or decrease the size in the Option menu. Too small? Do the opposite -
August 30, 2001
There was a problem entering the front page of the site if cookies cannot be set. It should be fixed now. (Noticed by pointed out by Matthew Howard on August 25, 2001) -
August 30, 2001
Because of problems in Opera’s implementation of the DOM, the browser will display the old template temporarily. (Noticed by pointed out by Mimi Haung on August 19, 2001) -
July 21, 2001
Sure you can turn-off the ads on a page-by-page basis, but if you subscribe to the saila.com newsletter you can learn how to surf the site ad-free—always! If you notice the text-flow feature (or anything else) acting strangely, please send let me know -
July 17, 2001
That last phase of the homepage is done, with the beta release of the Links tool. Add up to five of your favourite sites to it, then detach it from the page to use as a desktop reference. Web spec links included free of charge! Like much of saila.com’s new features, you can find it under the Personalize menu -
July 4, 2001
New templates are up for the site. Essentially, they are modifications to the printer-friendly style sheet. One, called Clean has replaced the earlier text-only version of the site. The other, Low-Fi is how this site could have looked in 1993 and is specially modified for text-only browsers and handheld devices (like AvantGo) -
June 4, 2001
The Condensed Net Glossary is now at version 3.0.2 (after ensuring the not found page would display, and fixing a minor bug which prevented a search on terms). Features include a search-based interface for those using the newest browsers