Joel Friesen Web Desiger

That was one crazy vacation! Check out the website. Since I’ve come back, I was asked to teach at Camosun College. That’s right! You are looking at the screen output of Camosun’s newest Photoshop, Illustrator, Interface Design and Graphic Design for the web instructor! A big thanks to Camosun for trusting me enough to take on this large course load.

The SMPTE test pattern was reworked last night. It’s lost a couple lines of code and works in every browser known to man!

Previously, I had each row sliced into bars equally, I had to shave off a tiny bit so IE could render the page, if i had them all equal 100% IE would try to make the last one wrap. This left a tiny white line at the right side of the screen. That always annoyed me.

Last night I realized that I didn’t need the last slice, and I could just colour the row behind the bars, and float the bars left. So simple! It even removes a couple lines of code.

The white bar is gone, and the page renders perfectly in the 44 browsers I tested it in. Take a look! If only i could find a way to reproduce the 1000khx tone…

Feel free to steal the test pattern and use it on your own site, Just credit me in the code.