About The Bar

Many years ago I read a series of comics created mainly by John Ostrander & Timothy Truman for the now defunct First Comics called "Grimjack".

This series contained a small section in the back called "Munden's Bar" where guest comic authors could bring their own creations into the bar, which was owned by the aforementioned Grimjack, and have them interact, usually in humorous ways, with the denizens of Cynosure.

There will be a more detailed discusion about Grimjack, Munden's Bar, and Cynosure in the Comics section in the future.

During the early nineties I ran a bulletin board, which was named Munden's Bar, and later when internet news & mail was offered thru this bulletin board, I registered the domain mundens.gen.nz for the use of the denizens of the bar. This domain is still in use by myself and my immediate family. One day, it will host this site to.

Currently most of the look and feel of this site has been derived from directly Eric Scott Raymond. I stole his cCSS file and played about a bit. I have also resused many of the following statements on standards compliance, etc. from ESR.

Anyway, feel free to make comments on the site usability, I've been reading Jakob Neilsen, and trying to follow the guru's teachings, but we can all learn more.

The entire site is currently generated from a single XML source file, into XHTML 1.0 compliant mark-up, using CSS for layout.

This site is a proud member of the Viewable With Any Browser campaign.

I have made a concerted effort to keep the HTML on this site standard, clean, and portable. These pages use no Netscape- or Internet Explorer-specific tags, and if I use any JavaScript it will be ECMA-compliant.

The HTML has been designed to degrade gracefully in a non-CSS-aware browser. The contents of the left menu bars should appear before main text.

Almost all the HTML is XHTML (4.0.1 transitional) that has been validated.

If you see broken images, get a browser that can view PNGs.

This site uses no Flash, Shockwave, or other such proprietary garbage.

There are two kind of bugs that can cause this website to render badly in your browser. One is problems in my HTML/CSS/JavaScript; the other is bugs in your browser, including failures to comply with W3C standards.

I am quite willing to repair broken code on my site. But my willingness to `fix' the site to accommodate every crappy browser ever written is limited. Consider this an incentive to get a browser that actually works. On the other hand, if you point out where I'm not standards-conformant it will generally be fixed quickly.

In practice, this means that you may trip over some of the semi-infinite number of bugs in Internet Explorer especially older versions like IE 3.

If you trip over an apparent bug, try to find out if it replicates under a browser that isn't broken, such as Firefox or Opera.

Reports of broken links are always welcome.