To go far away

The Internet programming languages

You can have:
Static languages: XHTML and CS carried out on your machine when you connect yourself to an Internet site.
Dynamic languages ( which are carried out on a server): PHP (for the Apache servers, usually coupled with "MySQL" data base) or ASP (for IIS servers coupled with access). These two types of languages are both very useful and each one of them has got its good and bad points.
This site uses XHTML, CS and conforms to W3C recommandations.

The navigators

There are many navigators for Internet :
Concerning Windows: Opéra, Mozilla, Internet explorer ou Netscape,...
Concerning Linux: Mozilla, Konquéror ou lynx (navigateur texte), etc...
Concerning Macintosh: Safari, camino, etc...
The list is not exhaustive and there are many alternatives of the same navigator, (for example: Mozilla or Maxton, before Browser, Crazy Browser based on Internet Explorer). Some of these navigators are free, others are charged or available with advertising, they have more or less functionalities and often privilege different fields : speed, ergonomics, respect of standards... Thus, we advise you to test several of them to choose the one which is more appropriate to you. It will always be necessary for you to have the last version for safety reasons, comfort and respect of the standards.
Indeed their importance is often neglected and many people are satisfied with the one that is imposed by defect on their machine. However:
They make possible the correct display of a site, indeed, they more or less respect standards defined by a consortium. Also, the quality of your display depends on the rigour of their design and of the creator of the site you visit, ( an example could be a different behaviour from the same navigator in different versions for its previous version did not integrate the new technological standards).
They are also integrated in a safety policy. Indeed people can more and more hear about faults , they concern failures of your navigator that a pirate can exploit to achieve certain misdeeds . These errors of safety are corrected thanks to the updates.
*At last, they are the interface between your machine and Internet and they bring more or less functionalities to adapt to your practices. Therefore, what is the interest of getting satisfied with a choice by defect.
Also, to update your navigator, you have to go onto their respective pages thanks to the icons:

Mozilla Internet Explorer Opéra Netscape

to finish, here is some statistics about navigators uses that date back to December 2004, and which are issued from the following sites:

"thecounter.com"

1^er[IE] MSIE 6.x (80%)
2^éme[IE] MSIE 5.x (9%)
3^éme[Moz] Mozilla (3%)
4^éme[NN] Netscape 5.x (2%)
5^éme[Un] Unknown (2%)
6^éme[Sa] Safari (1%)
7^éme[NN] Netscape 7.x (1%)
8^éme[O7]Opera 7.x (1%)

"w3schools.com"

1^er [IE]MSIE 6 (66.0%)
2^éme [Moz]Moz (21,3%)
3^éme [IE]MSIE 5 (4.8%)
4^éme [O7]Opera x.x (2.0%)
5^éme [NN] Netscape 7.x(1.2%)
6^éme [NN] Netscape 4.x (0.3%)
7^éme [NN] Netscape 3.x (0.2%)

A few easy ways

Some navigators like Mozilla and Opera make possible the display of different style sheets on the sites coded in XHTML an CS. The style sheets define the site's appearance. In our case, they make it possible to offer a new menu that is graphically different but identical at he functional level.
To be done : use in the tab "display" "the order" "style" or " use a style sheet". This functionality does not exist on Internet Explorer, this is why it was necessary for us to find a parade and to set up a pull-down menu to allow this change for those who use this navigator.
We, thus, renew our recommendation to test various navigators in order to use the one which is more appropriate to you. Moreover, updating your navigator will allow you to benefit from the last innovations.

The choice of the fonts

The font you see on your screen may not be those that were envisaged in the beginning. Indeed, for your computer to display any font we chose, it is necessary that this unspecified font also exist on your machine. This is why we chose and hierarchically arranged several fonts ( i a same font family) according to esthetism and legibility criteria. In practice, your computer checks that you have the first font we chose and if it is not the case, it displays the following font we defined and that it owns. If it does not have any fonts we chose, it randomly displays a font it has in the generic family that we determined ... If we didn't determine anything, the visual result is, as you understood, very uncertain.
Among the five generic families of fonts (Serif, Without serif, Cursive, Monospace, Fantasy) we chose "Without-serif" for it is the most adapted to the reading on the screen. In the "without-serif" family , we defined 10 fonts whose the principal one is Georgia. To check this the font is present on your computer, open C://windows/fonts and check that the font "georgia.ttf" is present. If it is not the case, you can download it and place it in the file we've just mentioned.

The choice of the resolution

Statistics of June 26, 2003 taken from the site onestat.com.
The most popular screen resolutions on the web in the world are:
1. 1024 x 768 48.3%
2. 800 x 600 31.7%
3. 1280 x 1024 13.6%
4. 1152 x 864 4%
5. 640 x 480 1%
As one can note, 1024*768 seems to be since June 2003, the most used resolution. Moreover, the continuous renewal of the data-processing parks allows us to anticipate a development in this direction. Finally, since it is a site of photographs we decided to define a minimum resolution of 1024*768.

The problems of colorimetry

The problems of colorimetry are numerous and very present even if it is difficult to become aware of it. Each screen, according to its characteristics, will reproduce the colours differently, (we refer, here, to concepts of luminosity, contrast, white point, temperature of colours... very well-explained in specialized works). we suggested you see the excellent site : Arnaud Frich

We propose at the beginning of this site a plank of calibration which will enable you to regulate the contrast and the luminosity of your screen. I.e. to ensure you that your screen will be neither too dark nor too luminous and that you will be able to see the whole of the luminous spectrum which extends from the pure white to the opaque black.

This adjustment does not presume anything about the quality of the colours which will be displayed. For our part, we calibrated our screen with a colorimeter , which is a second stage to obtain faithful colours, we can only advise you to make the same, to make sure that what we wanted to display is what you see.

The author

It seems difficult to speak about myself... My name's jerome, i choose "payanke" as photographer. i was born in saint denis in Reunion Island.
i'm proud of this island and i love it.

you can join me at: coeurreunionnais(arobase)wanadoo.fr
(where arobase must be replaced by @ )

Whatever i 'm happy to announce you that this site was choiced by ousurfer.com like the best french site in is category

The thanks

Thank you to all those who simply believed is me, advised me, spared me time and who contributed to the outcome of the site.
Thanks to Olive , Jim, Yannis, Laurent, Sylou, Roland S, Arnaud F, Regis E, Hassam M, Carole s, many thanks to all these "flowers" who let me use their beauty to make of this site what it is. Thanks to Kao, Lysie, Cendrillon, Angie, Steffy, Poune, Lumina, Puce, Hameline, Samira, Thank you to all my close relations and friends, Antoine and Myriam, Raymond and Brigitte, Yann and Denise, Fleur de lilas... And, especially thank you to all those I didn't name but that I do not forget.

"thecounter.com" 1er[IE] MSIE 6.x (80%) 2éme[IE] MSIE 5.x (9%) 3éme[Moz] Mozilla (3%) 4éme[NN] Netscape 5.x (2%) 5éme[Un] Unknown (2%) 6éme[Sa] Safari (1%) 7éme[NN] Netscape 7.x (1%) 8éme[O7]Opera 7.x (1%)

"w3schools.com" 1er [IE]MSIE 6 (66.0%) 2éme [Moz]Moz (21,3%) 3éme [IE]MSIE 5 (4.8%) 4éme [O7]Opera x.x (2.0%) 5éme [NN] Netscape 7.x(1.2%) 6éme [NN] Netscape 4.x (0.3%) 7éme [NN] Netscape 3.x (0.2%)

"thecounter.com"

1^er[IE] MSIE 6.x (80%)
2^éme[IE] MSIE 5.x (9%)
3^éme[Moz] Mozilla (3%)
4^éme[NN] Netscape 5.x (2%)
5^éme[Un] Unknown (2%)
6^éme[Sa] Safari (1%)
7^éme[NN] Netscape 7.x (1%)
8^éme[O7]Opera 7.x (1%)

"w3schools.com"

1^er [IE]MSIE 6 (66.0%)
2^éme [Moz]Moz (21,3%)
3^éme [IE]MSIE 5 (4.8%)
4^éme [O7]Opera x.x (2.0%)
5^éme [NN] Netscape 7.x(1.2%)
6^éme [NN] Netscape 4.x (0.3%)
7^éme [NN] Netscape 3.x (0.2%)