Am a bit stuck (again) on the image I’m supposed to be working on, might have something to do with it taking just too long to finish, so I decided to see for the first time what mountains I would come across to climb if I continued on my quest to completely eradicate flash from my site starting with the main stuff of the Mars Needs women section.
The biggest problem is that I cannot test it on any Windows based browser. Hell has to freeze over and then some before I buy a first hand copy of Windows. Main reason Apple’s OS X just cost 29.95. Windows costs at the least the 5 fold of that. Not going to pay that for testing purposes, ever.
Well I sort-off did, once. Bought a “legal” (said the description) Win XP disk for 30 Euro’s from an auction site. Upon arrival the “legal” disk was just one of those writeable disks you can buy anywhere with a not so legal copy of XP on it. Also came the note: give me a mail once you have installed it!
I was like ‘what the heck’ and installed it on a separate partition of my Mac OS formatted HD and rebooted up in XP.
Now over time I have become more and more suspicious (remember that Phoenix Arizona based photographer that ran away with 2000,- of my hard earned money?) and since I started to play EVE (when I can find some time and that is not much lately) I just have become plain paranoid about scammers. So first thing I do is run a virus check.
After the check was done I was confronted with something like 78 virii, key loggers, add ware and spam ware.
By logging back into OS X I was able to remove manually all virri and whatnot, yet what if I missed something? The ‘call me back so I can monitor what you do’ note still echo’s in my mind. For Windows users the solution is simple, if you think your HD is compromised, wipe it clean and re-install Windows. Not much use for me with my virus swamped XP install disk. :s
Anyway back to me testing HTML5. A problem I ran into is that the scrollbars are just plain fugly. Now I managed to hide them yet maintain the possibility to scroll using your mouse wheel albeit only tested on Safari, Opera, Netscape 4(!), Firefox and Chrome.
Another minor annoyance is that the font weight is treated differently on Web-kit based browsers then on Gecko based browsers. But I may be able to correct that with CSS.
Remains that I need to know how it looks with Windows based browsers, especially the so (by developers) hated IE browsers. It’s pointless to continue if things don’t work on the majority of computers.
So here is my request, if you happen to read this blog and use Windows, could you please follow next link and see if you can scroll and compare how things look to the attached images in this blog? And if you cannot scroll or things look out of wack, could you then send me a note, by Email, Twitter, Forum or just respond here?
Here is the link: http://4f-creations.com/testhtml5/mnw_graduation.html
Thank you in advance,
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Rick
