Mail update

[venta]

Following this, I think I'm happy to declare my blacktreacle email to be working again. So if you're mailing me, please use that address (elizabeth at blacktreacle.com).

In other excitements, having just discovered from Sysadmin #2 that work's policy on browsers isn't quite what I thought it was, I've just gone all Firefoxy. Opinions may be forthcoming when I have some.

Comments

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Hmm... Interesting: I'm not sure there's a "policy on Browsers" here. There are people using IE, NS 4.76 and some reasonably current version of Mozilla. And me, with Opera.

Some of the policy (that of the MIS team) is "produce HTML that works on all browsers, and don't introduce unnecessary garbage". The Creative Services team, on the other hand, don't seem to know what they're doing (the CSS files include styles such as small, medium and large, which specify the point sizes of fonts, and the fact that the foreground colour should be black!). They also, conveniently, include "larger" and "smaller" links at the top of the pages. For those people who can't figure out how to reconfigure their browsers.

OUP's policy, on the other hand, seemed to be "IE everywhere, especially in the cases where it doesn't work. Where we'll blame Mozilla for being incompatible."

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

> reasonably current version of Mozilla

Pah! Mozilla 1.0 does me fine.

[Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1]

[venta.livejournal.com]

I think the policy here is basically: we support IE and Outlook. Use what the hell you like as a browser/mail client, but don't come crying to the sysadmins unless any problem you encounter is also reproducible on IE/Outlook.

Writing html is a completely separate matter with its own set of guidelines.