Dec 11 2005
Firefox 1.5 and Custom Cursors
So, I’ve come to realise over the past few days (and would have realised sooner had I read the change log) that Firefox 1.5 allows custom cursors (i.e. graphical cursors). This is something that wasn’t allowed before (by Firefox; IE does) and surely should also be classed, like coloured scrollbars, as part of the OS/browser and not to be tampered with? Why are coloured scrollbars proprietary and graphical cursors not?
Surely this is a backwards step and not a forwards one, and will massively interefere with the accessibility of a website? (Imagine it now — black cursors on black backgrounds or white cursors on white backgrounds *shudder*!)
ETA: ..and the Disable Images in the Web Developer toolbar has stopped working. *grr*
Warning
This post is over 6 months old. This means that, despite my best intentions, it may no longer be accurate. Age, motherhood, experience, loss... these things have all changed me from when this blog was started back in the heady (ha) days of my youth.
As much as I would like to go back and edit 10 years of archives to provide an insight into the 'me' of now — to update coding snippets and revise website advice — it would probably take years to do so (by which point I'd have to start again!) This would defeat the point of keeping these archives anyway.
Please take these posts for what they are: a brief look into my past, my history, my journey.
