About zetanor.net

The website zetanor.net—the personal homepage of yours truly, Zetanor—has taken various forms since September 25^th 2007. It started as a blog built so I could muck around with PHP, then eventually grew into a depository for my digital art.

Well-Known URI

Here is a list of well-known paths provided by this website:

• /.well-known (RFC 8615, IANA Well-Known URIs)
• /.well-known/security.txt (securitytxt.org, RFC 9116)
• /favicon.ico (Wikipedia)
• /humans.txt (humanstxt.org)
• /robots.txt (robotstxt.org, RFC 9309)
• /sitemap.xml, informal but common (sitemaps.org)
• /feed/, informal but common enough (e.g., WordPress and Substack)

Funding

Funding for this website is graciously provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). This is the result of a mutually-beneficial arrangement, the terms of which I cannot disclose after signing an NDA. I am safe.

Browser compatibility

Humanity will forever remember 2001 for its greatest tragedy: the release of Internet Explorer 6. Significantly noncompliant with then-current standards and plagued by bugs that never got fixed, the web was long polluted by shims and monkey patches to accomodate its large, steadfast userbase.

Well over 40 million United States netizens dragged Internet Explorer 6 into the 2010s, and it took lots of aggressive marketing and elbowing to lower this figure to just under 10 million by 2014. Many (if not most) websites had before then already ceased to support Microsoft's dinosaurware.

Going into the 2020s, the IE6 userbase is nearly imperceptible, being estimated in the 6-digits range or below. Sadly, for various reasons, many other obsolete browsers continue to see day-to-day usage. As I'm writing this in 2022, a few million Americans still surf the Web with no support for 6+ years old features such as...

• CSS variables
• DOM manipulaton with append, replaceWith, etc.
• DOMRect constructor
• Flex and grid layouts
• Hex colors with alpha (#RRGGBBAA)
• let/const declarations
• Promises, including fetch and finally
• URLSearchParams

While the average end user may not care about website implementation details, I have to, and I won't provide complex polyfills to enhance the experience of a few retrograde surfers. The old and busted Safaris and Firefoxes of our age are the Internet Explorers of yore. My website will (maybe) look broken there. That's fine.

I do have a distaste for the complexity of modern web standards, for the superheavyweight class of software that comprises modern layout engines, as well as for the pace at which computers are turning into e-waste, so I can at least emphathize with Dillo users. But that doesn't mean I'll be making hacky stacks of <div>s and floats/clears just for you. Sorry Dillo.

Browsers from 2018 onwards are likely to support the full feature set exploited by zetanor.net, including Firefox 59+ (for pointer/mouse events and semantics) and Chrome 63+ (for AbortController).