The Notes

Below is information that fits nowhere else and requiresn't a full dedicated page.

Biography

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  • Born (IRL):
  • Aka: Big Z
  • Clans:

Zetanor is a handle I've used since , where "I" is some guy online. Ultimately meaningless, the moniker was picked back then because it was available, recognizable, and extremely badass-sounding 😎.

At that point, the only Google hit for the word was a Web 1.0 sci-fi encyclopedia describing someone's headcanon, including a galactic system made up of stars or galaxies named Alphanor, Betanor and Zetanor. Or something like that. It's been lost to time.

The website Zetanor.Net has taken various forms since . Initially a blog, which was itself mostly an excuse to learn HTML, CSS, JS and PHP, it eventually became the primary depository for my digital schizophrenia art.

If you need to tell or ask me something, you can send NSA-readable plaintext to:

  • e t r z . n t @ t e e n z a r n a o o

Here are my various other socials:

I have opinions on fonts.

Discord

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As of some time in 2022, the furries that consistently make Discord worse have (yet again) made Discord worse; it's currently impossible to permalink directly to an account. Instead, users are expected to exchange their vanity name and numeric tag. As I sometimes change my vanity name on a whim and won't remember to update it here, if you wish to contact me using this shitware, do the following:

  • Join the Official Mountain Dew® Discord: https://discord.gg/dew
  • Look at whichever profile sent the following message: link
  • That's me. You found me.
  • If that doesn't work, then I dunno. Maybe switch to a service that doesn't promote child abuse.

Pronuncing "Zetanor"

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The TRUE and HONEST pronunciations of "Zetanor" are:

  • IPA (RP): /zɛtənɔɹ/
  • IPA (GA): /zɛtnɚ/
  • IPA (DA): /ˈziˈːnɔɹ/
  • IPA (TTS): /zeɪˈfaɪndɚ/

Browser compatibility

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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. By 2014, much marketing and aggressive elbowing lowered this figure to just under 10 million. Many (if not most) active websites had by then already ceased to support Microsoft's dinosaurware.

The US IE6 userbase is today nearly imperceptible, 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, a few million Americans surf the Web with no support for features like…

  • flex layouts
  • CSS variables
  • #RRGGBBAA (with alpha)
  • defer on script tags
  • let/const declarations
  • promises and fetch
  • URLSearchParams
  • pointer events/semantics

My personal opinion on this block of laggard users, which is significantly smaller than the block of IE6 users that was left behind in 2010-2014, is that they're not worth polyfilling for, and not worth intentionally supporting. While I do have a distaste for superheavyweight modern browsers and script-heavy content, and while I do hate the speed at which physical technology turns into e-waste, all I'm asking for here is the use of up-to-date software with fewer security issues.

Thus, my approach to amateur webdev is that, just as I've stopped using float/clear over flex just to support Internet Explorer, I'll also stop using XHR over Fetch just to support some decade-old Firefox ESR.

Well-Known URL Paths

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