This site has been defunct since 2005.
It remains here as a reminder of the “cutting edge” in 2003.
About this Site
Standards Compliance
XHTML 1.0
The pages on this site conform to XHTML 1.0 Strict. You can test any page on this site for conformance with the W3C HTML Validation Service by clicking on the badge (above left) at the end of any page. Alternatively, you could just check this page as being representative.
CSS 2
The pages on this site use Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2 and conform to the CSS2 Specification. You can test any page on this site for conformance with the W3C CSS Validation Service. Since this site has a single, site-wide stylesheet, you can simply check this page.
Dublin Core
The pages on this site use Dublin Core Metadata conforming to RFC 2731 (Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML) using the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1.
Browser Compatibility
Microsoft Internet Explorer
This site has been tested with Internet Explorer (IE) for Windows (4.0, 5.0, 6.0) and Mac (5.0, 5.2) and works perfectly. A workaround is in place to circumvent a major CSS2 implementation bug on all Windows versions (Mac version OK)
We do NOT claim any level of compatibility with Internet Explorer 3.x, or earlier, browsers, since this is incompatible with the W3C recommended practice of using XHTML with CSS.
Netscape
This site has been tested with Nescape for both Windows (6.2,7.0,7.1) and Macintosh (6.2) and works perfectly. Compatibility with Mozilla, which also uses the Gecko rendering engine, is taken as an indication of likelihood of compatibility with other versions.
We also claim usability, but not perfection, under Netscape 4.x, with the caveat that certain features may be buggy on some sub-versions.
We do NOT claim any level of compatibility with Netscape Navigator 3.x, or earlier, browsers, since this is incompatible with the W3C recommended practice of using XHTML with CSS.
Mozilla
This site has been tested with Mozilla 0.8, 0.9.6, 1.0 and 1.1 for Linux, at different times, and operated perfectly.
Opera
This site has been tested with Opera as follows:
- Version 5.0, Linux: Menus descend partially and vanish, workaround devised and implemented. Game of Life (GoL) universe cannot exceed 11x11 cells, suspect buggy DOM implementation, the practical workaround is to show image of GoL instead of the applet.
- Version 5.0, Mac OS 9: Menus descend correctly, but have white bands, still usable. Same Game of Life problem as on Linux, same workaround.
- Version 6.05, Windows: Same menu problem as MacOS, still usable. Same Game of Life problem as Mac OS and Linux, same workaround.
- Version 7.11, Windows: Perfect. GoL is a little slow, but otherwise perfect.
Lynx
This site has been tested with Lynx, a text-only browser, on Linux and operates well.
Others
This site is largely illegible, by way of fonts being rendered very small, in Konqueror 2.1.1, the KDE Browser, and suffers layout problems in Amaya, the W3C Browser, due to its apparant lack of support for CSS2 absolute positioning.
Credits
This site was designed, constructed, and coded by Emmet Caulfield. It features a combination of careful CSS and JavaScript authoring for cross-browser compatibility, along with server-side browser detection and compensation implemented in PHP. All graphics produced with The GIMP. Photographs of nebulae and galaxies from the Hubble Space Telescope.