Comments on My Classmates' Pages

I really like Sean's photo page. I like the filters he chose because they take such a popular image (the Statue of Liberty) and distort it in all kinds of ways. I also really like the purple background, although it makes the black writing a little hard to read. Maybe white would be a better color for the text.

I also like Kelly's movie. She chose a scrapbook theme that fits well with her photos from her trip to Paris. I have a little trouble reading the small text on her site. Maybe it could be a little bigger.

Finally, I think Norah has a great homepage. It looks very professional with the choice of colors, image and all her links in a table.

Safari vs. Firefox, Part II

As I put the finishing touches on my assignments for this course, I consistently notice that Safari gives me fewer problems than Firefox. The same page will look very different in each browser, but always the way I want it to look in Safari.

For example, the screenshots in my Music Concrete assignment look okay in Safari, but they don't have the right dimensions in Firefox. In Firefox, there are extra pixels of height beyond the borders of the image, but in Safari, it's cropped just right. Also in Firefox, the audio files have a white box behind them that looks unprofessional. There's probably a way to fix this, but I'm not sure how.

My boyfriend is a programmer, and he says that one of the biggest headaches of his work is making sure the code he writes looks good in Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, etc. I wonder if sometime in the near future there will be a more universal code that all browsers recognize, down to the small details.

Safari vs. Firefox

I have been happily using Firefox for several years, and my only complaint was that the icon to close each tab was way over on the right side of the screen, not on each individual tab.

Then, while testing some of my code for this class, I got frustrated because my changes weren't showing up in Firefox. I opened the same page in Safari and right away saw my new and improved site. I'm not sure if the extra time it took for me to switch to Safari was necessary for whatever needs to happen between changing the html and seeing the change online, but I was sold. I've been using Safari ever since. I especially like the Top Sites feature where you can see miniature screen shots of your favorite websites all at once and click on the one you want to go to. And to top it all off, the icon to close each tab in Safari is right where I need it: on the tab itself.

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