{"id":72,"date":"2005-02-07T13:32:21","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T18:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/07\/installed-nice-titles\/"},"modified":"2005-02-10T19:08:43","modified_gmt":"2005-02-11T00:08:43","slug":"installed-nice-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/07\/installed-nice-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Installed Nice Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you mouseover items in the blog, they now look a bit snazzier. This is due to <a title= \"Nice, aren't they?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kryogenix.org\/code\/browser\/nicetitle\/\">Nice Titles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It uses Javascript to snaz-up the title field of a link. I like that the site still works perfectly well without the script&#8230;. but the snazzing is well appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>I was also going to use the nice looking semi-transparent .png from the site above (here&#8217;s a great <a href=\"http:\/\/newsite.grytoyr.net\/apps\/alpha\/\">transparent PNG maker<\/a>) but Internet Explorer 6 doesn&#8217;t properly support transparent .png files Phoey on them! There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/articles\/pngopacity\/\" title=\"Cross-Browser Variable Opacity with PNG: A Real Solution\">ways around this problem<\/a>, by using the IE AlphaImageLoader Filter, but it&#8217;s a pain in the neck. I&#8217;m not much interested in jumping through Bill&#8217;s hoops when an internet standard exists and Bill doesn&#8217;t follow it. Besides, you know that such a browser-specific solution will require upkeep. Just like when IE 5.5 came out and my old company, Wavexpress had to scramble to re-write web pages because the new version of&#8230; I think it was I-Frames, wasn&#8217;t compatible with the old. We were working <em>directly<\/em> with Microsoft engineers on our project and we hadn&#8217;t gotten even a 1 day&#8217;s heads-up that the new release of IE was coming or that it might mess anything up. So Phoey on Bill.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s even a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/msiepng\/petition.html\" title=\"Proper PNG Support in Internet Explorer for Windows \">petition<\/a> with 20,000 signatures asking Bill to put this promised native functionality into IE.<\/p>\n<p>I kinda like the look. What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you mouseover items in the blog, they now look a bit snazzier. This is due to Nice Titles. It uses Javascript to snaz-up the title field of a link. I like that the site still works perfectly well without the script&#8230;. but the snazzing is well appreciated. I was also going to use the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}