About zetanor.net

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The website zetanor.net—the personal homepage and cybersynagogue 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 became polluted by shims and monkey patches to accomodate its large, steadfast userbase.

Tens of millions of United States netizens dragged IE6 into the 2010s, and it took aggressive measures by many (if not most) service providers to bring this figure down to the few millions by 2014. At that point, a good chunk of the Internet had already ceased to support Microsoft's dinosaurware.

Fortunately, going into the 2020s and according to Statcounter^[1] data, the IE6 userbase is fading away. Sadly, Internet Explorer has successors: old versions of other mainstream browsers, often carrying serious security flaws.

More importantly to zetanor.net, as I'm writing this, a few million United States of Americans surf the Web with no support for useful features that have been broadly supported for many years, like...

Flex layout (≈2015)
let/const declarations (ES6, ≈2016)
CSS variables (≈2016)
DOM append, replaceWith, etc. (≈2016)
Grid layout (≈2017)
Hex colors with alpha (#RRGGBBAA; ≈2017)
PointerEvent (≈2017)
URLSearchParams (≈2017)
fetch (≈2017)
finally (ES9, ≈2018)
AbortController (≈2018)

This matches WebDX's 2018 target of Firefox 64+ and Chrome 66+.

Everyone should despise the monopolizing feature creep that vendors (read: Google) have foisted on the Web, but I'm happy to accept simple, tangible improvements.

While the average end user may not care about website implementation details, I do, and I won't stuff my stuff with polyfills just to support a handful of Firefox 52 ESR stragglers. If that's you, try Lynx for a better experience.

Notes

^{^[a]} Statcounter isn't perfect, especially in that it is less likely to count powerusers who might, e.g., be using Firefox and uBlock with EasyPrivacy. It is, however, the best dataset available to analyze browser usage trends among the masses.