Project UpdatesViewing This Site
This particular page is about the 4th iteration of this website, and represents some considerable hours, effort, and attention to detail on my part in the layout and design of the site (unlike the previous "get something up ASAP" versions). ...I had to realize that, as a professional graphic designer, the poor site design was too distracting to me and it was keeping me from focusing on working on the actual language (which is the whole point of the project!). With that, then, and with finally having some free time since completing my linguistics degree (hook 'em horns!), I decided to bite the time-killing bullet and perform a proper redesign of the site. Having said that, half of you visiting will probably hate it; oh well, you can't please everyone!
Browsers
During this redesign I decided to not worry about supporting older browsers. Nothing here is mission-critical, and I would rather spend the time working on actual content than endlessly searching for work-arounds for poorly-made browsers ( cough cough Internet Explorer cough!). The newest browsers, Safari 4.0, OmniWeb 5.9, Opera 10, and FireFox 3.5 do the best at making the page look the way it's supposed to; they all support font embedding (which is pretty important for this site, as you can imagine), they all support custom tags (without going through any hoops) which save me oodles of time, and they all support text-shadow (which isn't really important, but I designed the site with it).
Having written all of that, feel free to download the fonts here and install them yourself for browsers that don't support font embedding. The fonts are required to be able to view this site properly. Many older browsers might work just fine as long as you download and install the fonts manually (you'll have to test it yourself). However, it's probably easier, and I would strongly suggest, that you consider just going ahead and upgrading your browser instead of going through that rigamarole.
I really had high hopes for Microsoft that they were finally getting on the ball with Internet Explorer 8, and I would be able to add it to the recommended list. Alas, although it is a much much better browser than its predecessors, Microsoft has continued to stay behind the curve with IE8; it didn't satisfactorily support any of the features I mentioned above. Text-shadow support is non-existent, the only type of font that you can embed in it is an .eot file (generating which is painful at best on a PC and impossible on a Mac), and it completely ignores all custom tags making most of the pages unreadable. Yet again, designing for IE proves to be a major pain in the tuchas... and since I don't have to - I won't!
UPDATE: Ok, so I've taken the time to define a custom namespace and have gone through the hassle of updating all of my custom tags so that the site will look halfway decent in IE8 (haven't tested it in anything else). You will still need to download the fonts, though.
