About Daniele Giabbai's page

White vs. Black

Have you ever asked yourself why people use dark color pages or light color pages? What makes a page owner put dark colors in his pages instead of softer colors? Why did I choose to use a black background instead of using a white one? If you're making yourself all those questions, then I suppose you're interested in human psycology... But as that's not my case I won't continue writing all this stuff...

Looks like I'm going totally nuts, huh?

Well, actually, what I'm trying to do here is catch your attention. Maybe you're asking yourself why you're still reading this. I don't mind what you think of me: the only thing I want is bring you down all this document without boring you.

Why english?

Right now, what you might have noticed is that this page is written almost entirely in english. As that's not my own spoken language, you might ask yourself why did I choose that idiom. And maybe I'm wrong and you're not asking yourself that. As I'm tired of making myself crazy, making all those suppositions (in my language we say "pippe mentali"), I'll stop writing for this document this way. Let's just say that this is a way to practice the written english language. So, please, forgive me for my lexical/syntactical/grammatical english faults.

Netscape 4.51 vs. Internet Explorer 5.0

The notice on the bottom of the menu, here on the left side of this "About this page" section, says something that most Netscape users will not like. It reports somehow that Internet Explorer is in a way better then Netscape. Well, what I actually think about is that Netscape is generally a better browser than IExplorer, but when it comes to cosmetics then the general look of a page shown with IExplorer can be made more attractive. And so this page, my own home page, has few cosmetics that only with IExplorer can be appreciated. On the other hand I don't have enough knoledge to fully appreciate one browser or another I have tryed to make this page look the same with both browsers, but you can feel something more with IExplorer. Maybe with future realeses of the browsers we might enjoy more compatibility with the HTML standard.
Right now there's a lot missing from the standard in either side.
I was asking to myself: if a page looks the same with two browsers, what makes me choose between the two of 'em? What else is there to let me choose one or another? Which one should I use regularly and why?

Post Scriptum

Well, if you're still reading this then I succeded in making you read this whole document!
Please, don't stone me...