Caveat Lector

The ideal web browser would have:

• Mozilla’s support for standards (with a dash of Opera here and there).
• Opera’s tabbed browsing.
• IE5 for Mac’s ability to pull up URLs from history while I type, and go to them with a mere tap of the Enter key. (Opera makes you arrow-down to the page you want. I hate that.)
• Opera’s disable-popups preference. Boy, is that nice.
• IE6 for Windows’s support for P3P.
• ICab’s instant-page-validation feature.

Just some musings as I work from the G4, since the laptop is still hosed. (Light at end of tunnel. Rescue CD-ROM arriving by mail shortly.) I’m going to be tweaking the Caveat Lector design once the laptop is functional; it looks like garbage on IE5/Mac. Fixed that (on my desktop machine); now need to be sure the fixes work on the other side of the ocean.

Some things, of course, are byproducts of inconsistent CSS support across platforms, and for the most part they’re minor enough that I don’t worry about them. The first paragraph of a block quotation should not be indented. Works in Opera, nowhere else. The first paragraph inside a list item shouldn’t indent either, but it does on IE5 Win (or maybe in Opera? Can’t check). Depending on your browser, entry headings may be all-small-caps (wrong) or caps-small-caps (correct). And I give up on consistent font sizes. Increase or decrease font size in your browser until you’re comfortable; it’s what I do, and it works right nice.