Kiran Jonnalagadda’s Blog

A long standing issue with this site’s stylesheets has been fixed. IE7 users would see a long horizontal scrollbar, while Firefox users would see the right hand side sections overlapping the dividing line.

This site’s layout is now tested working with Safari 2.0, IE 7.0, IE 6.0, Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 1.0. The font rendering still seems to be a bit of a problem. I use Lucida Grande falling back to Lucida Sans, falling back to Verdana. It appears that some Windows systems have a bitmap version of Lucida that looks horrible. Lucida Grande also lacks an italic face. Safari handles this gracefully by substituting from Lucida Sans. Firefox does not, and as a result, Mac Firefox users get a poor experience.

That, and handheld rendering, remain to be resolved.

jQuery is a new type of Javascript library that looks like it’ll have me doing some real Javascript programming within this lifetime. Under 20kB compressed, your choice of MIT or GPL license. What does the code look like? From their site:

$("p.surprise").addClass("ohmy").show("slow");

Sweet!

Shunya reports on a book about Vaastu Shastra for websites:

Now we have a book which claims to use the principles of Vastu Sahstra [sic] to help design websites. “Earth is the layout, fire is the colour, air is the HTML, space is name of the Web site, and water is the font and graphics,” says Narang, adding that each must be chosen carefully and strike a balance with the other.

Narang, a vaastu expert who has spent four years analysing around 500 sites, says a Web site that is not designed according to vaastu rules will have few hits will negatively affect the business. Looking at Narang’s website and then considering the fact that she left out content as one of the five elements, I really wonder how well she has understood the 500 websites she studied.

Nishant says this is what happens when website builders start calling themselves architects and designers.