Experiments in web technologies

This site has no specific theme as such, it's developing into a fairly mixed bag with web design being the main orientation.

The Fat Belly Man website is written as far as is possible to meet all current web standards. These include CSS/XHTML standards and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

A novel feature of this site, well, interesting for geeks anyway, is that CSS units are mostly expressed as percentages as opposed to pixels or ems.

This allows the website to be viewed in a greater range of visual display units, PC monitors, PDAs, mobile phones etc and still maintain visual integrity. There is the added advantage that the whole web page scales accurately when text zoom is used.

An apology to users of broken browsers, for example, Internet Explorer 6, the nature of this site does not permit many concessions to non Web Standards compliant browsers. Of course, all efforts will be made to ensure that the Fat Belly Man site slims gracefully into inferior browsers.

No to child immigration detention

In the United Kingdom around 2000 children of asylum seekers a year are imprisoned without charge and without a time limit on their detention.

These children are in effect being excluded by the UK Borders Agency from the protection of legislation afforded to other children and in many cases are also ignoring the Agency's own guidelines on the treatment of children in its custody.

Please sign the petition, end child immigration detention, on the Downing Street petition website calling for an end to the abhorrent practise of imprisoning innocent children.

The Refugee Council have recently published a report based on interviews with asylum seekers that help dispel many of the negative myths and stereotypes perpetrated by politicians and some sections of the media.