The Pools and the Pool

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Last night we had the Pool’s over, Jim, Rachel and Henry (or as Abby calls him, ‘Hendry’). A great time was had and we ate food, drank drinks, saw bunnies and played som games until our kids couldn’t handle it any more. I’m grateful to have good fellowship here with folks, it’s quite a blessing.

Then today Jessica went with Krystal Kaes to a pilates class whilst Craig and I took the kids to to the pool there at the Rec center. Once again fun was had but boy was I tired when I was done. I didn’t even get to swim laps, but Abby kept me plenty busy.

Accessible Forms

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Ian Lloyd writes what has to be one of the best articles on Accessible Forms for web developers. Really good. While I employ most of what he writes already, there were a few things I learned as well. I’d like to also point out that with CSS you can style a form button or submit button to look like a text link if you want to, thus if you need to make your submission look like a link for styling reasons you can do so with the magic of CSS:

Forgot Password

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I forgot my password for www.adobe.com so that I could view their tutorials and what not. I needed to find a glass effect for lettering and other objects. I typed in my username (which was one of my plethora of email addresses) and then clicked on the ‘lost password’ link. Which took me to the following page (screen shot below)
Adobe Lost Password

If I lost my password, would I be able to type it into the password box? No.

And if the text says, “Login,” why does the button say, “Sign In”?

XHTML 2.0

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As XHTML 2.0 is obviously not too near on the horizon this article is for discussion and further thinking on forward compatibility and standards.

Others have been having a discussion as to why you should have your site in valid XHTML 1.1 or 1.0 or 1.0.1.1.0 markup, which has not borne any fruit (in my opinion). The critical issue comes down, for now, to pragmatic issues such as time and workflow/CMS. I propose a third, more critical issue: XSLT and forward thinking. IF your site is valid XML (which valid XHTML 1.X is) then you can run an XSLT process on it’s code and you’ll find yourself with a WAP version, or an XHTML Basic version for phones. Or you could run an XSLT process on it and turn your XHTML 1.X site into an XHTML 2.0 site. Or you could turn it into plain text and wrap it with a <pre> tag.

An important reason to keep this set of standards is forward compatibility… not for 2005 but 2010. We need to be pragmatic, make it work now, but also be ready for the future. If Zeldman‘s new book on future compatibility doesn’t say this I’m going to be sad 😉

Squealing Like a Stuck Pig

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This morning Abigail got her arm caught in the bars of her crib while climbing out. She’s OK, but it has now prompted Jessica to declare, “There shall be a new bed for our daughter, even if I have to sell my internal organs.” To which I replied, “If you sell enough organs we can buy a house.” But in short, Abigail has needed a ‘big girl’ bed for some time, I’ve just been holding out because frankly I want to have her get a bed when she gets her own money.* I think that she needs to get a job and start pulling her weight around here** So hopefully all of the parts and pieces will come together and we’ll be waking up at 6:00 AM because she walks in, not because she’s screaming cause she’s stuck.

* This conversation never really took place
*this is a lie
**not for some time
***I never used this character set in the above paragraphs
****You’re reading it anyway

Broadcast Television

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As some of you may know, and those of you don’t will now unless you cover your eyes while reading the rest of this entry, we don’t have cable. We don’t have satellite either. So we get mediocre reception on our rabbit ears and we endure the garbage of Broadcast Television. Most programs, aside from This Old House, America’s Test Kitchen and TBN, there’s nothing good to watch on Television. I would much rather do one of the following than endure the boredom of most broadcast Television shows:

Thanks for putting out such amazingly quality shows networks – you give me lots of time to imagine what could really be done if I had time to sit and be bored.

High Percentage

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I love it when my Outlook Express application goes above and beyond the call of duty. When I ask for one hundred percent, I get 42,083% from it [see the bottom of the image, in case that doesn’t make sense].
Outlook Express, above and beyond the call of duty