So I’m on break at work today, doing a little web lurking and I go to Fox Sports. Packer season is coming up you know, hey. Anyway, I go to click on one of the main links right on the front page and as my mouse hovers above the story I’m about to click on, the text for the link disappears! “Well, that is odd. It was just there” I said to myself. So I move my mouse away from the link and just like magic, it reappears! Knowing a little bit of HTML and CSS myself, I right away realized that the link I was trying to click has a CSS attribute that makes the link turn white when you put your mouse over that. But I couldn’t help but wonder how many people with less web experience might have this occur and wonder what is going on. I mean it is totally possible that someone could have their mouse at a certain position on the screen when the page is loading and it could be sitting right on top of a link to one of the big sports stories of the day and the person could never see it. Now I’m all for the hover affect in most cases; it looks neat and most importantly, makes the link you are above stand out from the rest of the links on the page. But in this case, it is doing the complete opposite of both of those. Huh.
Was that my longest post ever? I think so. Day one of iPodless life went alright. Work was definately boring though. Meh.
Yeah, iPodlessness is no funs. I’ve been lucky that my 3G has lasted nearly two years with no issues, except for the days of anxiety where I couldn’t find it when I got to work and sat there the entire day wondering whether a) I lost it somewhere or b) I left it at home. I hate that.
The shuffle could be good for your iPod fix in the meantime; at least it has alternate uses when you get your real one back.
July 28th, 2005 at 11:41 pm