In case you did not know, it turns out that Firefox does not recognize “text-align: center;” for tables or the body. I read in some blog that this bit of code is not compliant. But au contrair (as they say in France), I shot this code through the code compliance tool at W3C before I put it into effect. But browsers evidently don’t care that much about standards. In any case mozilla has its own centering code, but it does not work in IE. Turns out there is one code that works in all browsers:

margin-right: auto;
margin-left:auto;

Remember to check your code on all the various browsers. You can work very hard to get your web pages w3c compliant. Yet even if they meet those rigid standards and render well in one browser that does not mean that they will render well in all browsers.

I always check a webpage every time I upload anything, whether it is a bit of text or an image. I had an XO in the Navy by the name of Dougherty who used to say, “You can only expect what you inspect.” I have taken that on as one of my mottos, and as long as I have followed it, it has served me well.

The season for planting tomatoes is coming up. Spring is here. The winter this year was so long and drawn out that I found myself longing for a spade, some black earth and a flat of tomato plants.

My favorite way to indulge such passions is to create a folio for InDepthInfo on the subject. Thus, I have put together InDepthInfo on Tomatoes.

InDepthInfo seems to continuously evolve. There are parts of it that are ten years old, as I pointed out in a previous post, I seldom find the time to bring the older sections up to the new look. The tomato website took me three weeks to put together and it exhibits my philosophy on information presentation. It starts with an overview that serves as a kind of table of contents, and some of the pages delve down to subsections (such as the page on growing tomatoes). Other pages branch (such as the page on cooking). Meanwhile there are tangential references to other folios and articles throughout. I think it gives the whole tomato site an organic feel. At the same time it is relatively easy to navigate.

My idea is to present information in an easy to use, straight-forward manner, but at the same time retain the nuances and the depth that is important to more advanced readers.

I just entered into the modern age. At 49 years old I got my first MP3 Player. The whole family flocked about when I downloaded an audio book. We all like music, but most of us like to listen to books on tape.

I figure this will be handy on trips and whatnot, when the wife wants to sleep while I drive. I don’t dare use it while I try to work. I know it would distract me to no end…