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About

Take a walk with me if you're interested in finding out more about this site, and about me.

About draco

My name is Sunny Wong, and I have been living in Singapore for the past 22 years since birth.

I am now serving NS and is slated for relief on 6 September 2008. After which I will pursue further studies or work should studies not accept me.

I also work for a web design studio named devsync which I co-founded with Eric and Sheldon. The studio used to have some work but all have been stagnant since we enlisted into NS. Here is to hope the studio gets some love after we are all free for some work!

When not infront of computers or stuck in military camps, I can usually be found sleeping or hanging out with friends doing nothing in particular.

If you're interested, there's even a whole resumé for your viewing pleasure.

Colophon

This site serves as a playground for me to test interesting things in the World Wide Web. That said, the previous version was a test of negative margins CSS concept I had learnt from A List Apart.

The entire site structure is now a blog concept, instead of having it breaking up into "articles", "test", "blog" and etc. Several external sources of information are also integrated into the site layout now -- Twitter, Del.icio.us and Flickr -- as can be seen at the footer of every page.

More about v5

This version (v5) is made with grid layout in mind. After reading through some materials from subtraction.com, I set off to messing around with my own grids thus what you see here may look simple but it's months of tweaking.

Beside that, the under-lying CSS and HTML codes are written to conform with the latest specifications (at time of coding) -- some parts of HTML5 and CSS3. As these specifications are still being worked on regularly, I believe only the latest of modern web browsers will render the site as I intend: Firefox, Opera and Safari.

I have also taken the liberty to try CSS3 selectors(mainly child selectors and adjacent siblings) to style the site without the use of class hooks. Honestly, this is very versatile but sometimes it gets tad tiring with all the counting of child selectors. I will still recommend the usual class hooks as IE6 does not recognise these CSS2.1 selectors. (And dang Firefox for still not having full CSS3 selectors support.)

Why `XHTML` instead of `HTML`?

Due to a bug (read:#311366) in all versions of Firefox prior to 3 causing it not to be able to render unknown block-element properly, I have to use XML serialisation.

This should not be an issue as I have stopped supporting IE since this version. If IE8 proves to be a worthy platform, I'll consider content negotiation.