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Thoughts on Design

One thing comes to mind when I craft a webpage.

elegant adj.
[common; from mathematical usage] Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than `clever', `winning', or even cuspy.

The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exupery, probably best known for his classic children's book "The Little Prince", was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

Did I do it right? Did I test it everywhere? How does it look in lynx? In some areas, this dedication to elegance has lead to severe headaches over what the various browsers render versus what they should render. Netscape Navigator 4.x comes to mind. I am fully aware the page you are looking at here does not render the same under different platforms. This is intentional. Ok, not intentional, but let's call it a known bug, shall we?

I have been making large strides in the area of cross platform compliance of late. This page should look virtually identical in all the browsers. The exception being Netscape Navigator 4.x, which supports none of the modern features that are in use on the web today. If you are still using Netscape Navigator 4.x, I would encourage you to move to Netscape 6. If you are on a unix/linux machine, please consider using Netscape, Mozilla, or Konqueror. Each of the mentioned browsers are light years beyond Netscape Navigator 4.x.