Tag Archives: CSS

Cross-Browser Compatibility: My Website Animation, Part 3

Following up on the issue I discussed previously here and here, I finally bit the bullet and straightened out the problems caused in the landing page animation by a certain behavior of Android web browsers. After periodically digging around for … Continue reading

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Cross-Browser Compatibility: My Website Animation, Part 2

Digging into yesterday’s problem more I found references to a procedure called font boosting, and a number of ways to potentially control it or turn it off. Font boosting has to do with making the text larger by default on … Continue reading

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Cross-Browser Compatibility: My Website Animation, Part 1

The introductory animation on my website has been a source of annoyance for me for some time. It never scaled properly on Android devices. It worked fine on every other browser I was able to test (IE, Edge, Firefox, Chrome, … Continue reading

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To Do List Project: Part 9

I spent way too many hours not getting something to work that should be simple. I’m sure that I’m missing something obvious but I need to throw in the towel for today and get a post up. The problem is … Continue reading

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Different Options for Empty Web Links

While working on yesterday’s post I noticed, apparently after far too long, that the Intro link on my site’s main page failed to run the animation when clicked. More accurately, it would run a frame or two of it and … Continue reading

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Website Update Mostly Complete

I slogged through and got the hard part done. Migrating the WordPress installation down one directory was blissfully easy and the rest of it was just applying elbow grease and being thorough. It’s nice having a true landing page. That … Continue reading

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Website Update In Progress

I’m in the process of hand-editing all of the static webpages and I think it’s coming together reasonably. Doing these pages over and over again makes it clear that I should be doing at least the simplest level of automation, … Continue reading

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Responsive Design: One Observation

I try to keep digging until I understand things from first principles if it’s at all practical. I won’t claim I’m above settling for a temporary fix if there’s a deadline or so I can move on for a while, … Continue reading

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Random Explorations

Over the past few weeks I met two nice people who have both built websites based on Jekyll (the newer one was actually based on OctoPress). As I’m redoing my website I’m trying to find a good way to make … Continue reading

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