Sushi Coma II

If you wanna read about sushi instead of web design, just skip the next few paragraphs.

I don't have much in terms of assignments at work, so I've been busy working on a long-term project that I've given myself—cleaning up the reams of poorly written, Dreamweaver-generated code that currently makes up a large portion of the site. Personally, I'd like to scrap the entire site and start from a nice XHTML and CSS2-based layout, but till I get that cleared from someone in charge of that sort of thing, I've been busy toying around with stripping out font tags (some of which are unnecessarily nested two or three deep) and converting to CSS. I've been having fun implementing CSS image rollovers that combine older techniques with the Fahrner image replacement method that's been generating so much hoopla as of late. I'm concerned about the accessibility issues, and Phark's simple yet effective workaround unfortunately won't work. Why?

Netscape Navigator 4. *shudder* yup.

Our audience is mostly students and educators, so 5% of our traffic still browses with NN4.* A straight application of the FIR actually shows up in Navigator 4...sort of. It has the image rollover show up, as well as the spanned text over it. Ugh. I used centricle's ever useful css filters to fix that problem (in Navigator, it displays the text that's hidden by the span), but I'm wondering if it will also work for accessibility issue...basically, I have to filter out the padding rule. I've actually been having fun doing this stuff, so I'm looking forward to trying it out tomorrow.

Mmmmmmm...uuuuuuuh. Sushi coma.

Went back to the much vaunted Fuji's today for some more all-you-can-eat sushi goodness. Party was double the size of the last Fuji's group, including a much braver Laura...admirably so. Final count came out to 14 plates. I probably would have had more, but I took up Justin's challenge to eat a chunk of wasabi, and that unsettled my stomach somewhat, though it was fun...Justin himself also took down wasabi like a big...green-paste-eating...thing.

Oh man...my mental functions are slowing down...this is starting to feel like a severe sushi coma. It's probably not a good thing that I have to blink every now and then to keep the monitor in focus as I type. Especially with my next class starting in about half an hour.

Tried oysters for the first time...and discovered I'm not much of an oyster fan. Didn't really taste it going down—it just kinda slid down my throat—and I think that's a good thing. All in all, not a bad day, though I think I've met my sushi quota for the next six months.