As reg­u­lar or semi-regular vis­i­tors here would note, there have been var­i­ous minor quirky design changes in the last sev­eral days. Most imme­di­ately evi­dent is the new back­ground pat­tern, sourced from squidfin­gers most excel­lent pat­terns resource. If you’re par­tic­u­larly atten­tive, you would have also noted the changes to the footer of this website.

Those who aren’t unfor­tu­nate enough to be stuck using Inter­net Explorer would have pos­si­bly appre­ci­ated the footer for look­ing kind of snazzy… for the ben­e­fit of those poor sods stuck with IE, here are some screen­shots of the footer in var­i­ous browsers.

Fire­fox 1.0PR

Netscape 7.2

Opera

Kon­queror

I’m a fan of the way Opera han­dles it, per­son­ally, but I use Fire­fox 1.0PR at the minute for day-to-day stuff. Of course, if you’re using Inter­net Explorer, it should still be per­fectly vis­i­ble, but also bor­ing and gen­er­ally crap. Switch over! If, of course, you can’t, for one rea­son or another, then my sym­pa­thies to you. If you choose not to, no such apol­ogy is forth­com­ing! (yes, I know, per­sonal pref­er­ence… Pfft!)

Aside from the purely aes­thetic, of course, there is a rea­son for these changes. Not for my tin­ker­ing, but for the dis­play and pre­sen­ta­tion of con­tent. There’s a new license in effect, you see. Well, actu­ally, it was prob­a­bly always in effect, I just never got around to mak­ing it pub­lic — the Cre­ative Com­mons license this web­site is now for­mally under is that which I’d planned to use since the incep­tion of this ver­sion of the web­site. So, there we go. Just for the sake of con­ve­nience, I’ve repro­duced (in text-only form) the Cre­ative Com­mons deed human-readable sum­mary here.

You are free:

• to copy, dis­trib­ute, dis­play, and per­form the work
• to make deriv­a­tive works

Under the fol­low­ing conditions:

• Attri­bu­tion. You must give the orig­i­nal author credit.
• Non­com­mer­cial. You may not use this work for com­mer­cial purposes.

• For any reuse or dis­tri­b­u­tion, you must make clear to oth­ers the license terms of this work.
• Any of these con­di­tions can be waived if you get per­mis­sion from the copy­right holder.

There we go. Please, enjoy my con­tent. You’re free to do what­ever you want to it, within those con­straints, but it’d be nice if you told me just so I can go take a look. That’s not a require­ment of the license, of course, but it’s some­thing I think would be nice.

If you wish to use con­tent here for com­mer­cial pur­poses, or with­out the require­ment of attri­bu­tion, feel free to get in touch to dis­cuss licensing.

Note that this licens­ing does not apply to con­tent oth­er­wise marked.

Tags: author, Internet Explorer, stuck using Internet Explorer