It’s been too long since I’ve posted here. I’d like to write about all the fascinating things I’ve been doing. Unfortunately, there’s really only one thing, and it’s only fascinating to certain people. But it’s the only thing I have to write about, so here it is.
I’ve been working on a new theme for my site, one that will play nice with mobile browsers. I thought it would be easy. I thought I would just copy some stuff out of the Mobile Biolerplate and stick into my theme and that would be that. But it happens to be more complicated than I thought.
So I decided to make understanding this stuff a project, something I would spend time on and labor over and work through with fear and trembling. Initially, this meant going through the MBP line-by-line, scouring the docs and blog and drawing out the reasoning behind what was in there and why it mattered. But this soon broadened into a search across various sites looking for more detail on things like viewports and font formats and conditional Javascript.
So now, after about a month of sifting and sorting, I’ve got a nearly finished theme. What I had intended as a lyric has grown into an epic, and not a very good one. But it has accomplished it’s purpose. I get the whole mobile thing now, and hopefully will find time soon to begin a more polished attempt. In the spirit of my unexpectedly long and difficult journey, I’ve named the theme Odysseus, and will activate it on this site once I’ve ironed out the last few wrinkles.
Now that I think of it, I should have blogged this whole project as I worked on it. >:|