Canadian Queer Webring Home : Gay & Black Glossary

The Canadian Queer Ring links together websites that are proud to be Canadian and proud to be Queer. If you’re Queer and Canadian you’ll want to join this Ring! If you’re not familiar with the concept of Rings, check out the WebRing.com or my essay on webrings.

• This ring is open to all groups, organizations, services, directories, businesses and individuals who are queer and Canadian. The ring showplaces the incredible variety in Canadian gay Life. The most important thing is to be honest about who you are.
• Pages promoting hatred, homophobia, racism or any other form of intolerance are not welcome. Pages should show respect for yourself, for the gay community and for the community at large.

• Your site should at least be viewable without ActiveX. ActiveX is too big a security risk to turn on generally. You might still use this tool to enhance your site, but visitors without it enabled should at least see something.
• Place your nav bar on the page most closely related to the webring topic, or on a page reserved for all your webrings. The URL you register at WebRing.com must be the exact page where your navbar is. If you put navbar somewhere else, the automated link-checking software won’t be able to find it and WebRing.com will automatically suspend your membership in the ring.
• Please validate the HTML on your website to make sure it contains no errors. Otherwise people who use a browser different from yours may not be able to see the fruits of your work. I suggest using a validator called HTMLValidator. Click to
   download a free copy.

• best browsers

  Please check that your own website works with all of these up-to-date-browsers:
  Click the corresponding browser icon to download the latest free browser software, or click the browser name for more information.
  	Firefox	59.0.2	with the Java 1.8.0_131 JRE (Java Runtime Environment). No longer suppoorts Java Applets. Most widely supported next to IE. Many add-ins. Very fast rendering. Weak on table rendering. Best for printing. Fairly slow to start up. Often stalls on first page from a new site. Must hit reload. 9% market share. Firefox properly balances two-column layouts. None of the other browsers do. Firefox displays SSL certificates.
  	Google Chrome	53.0.2785.92	with the Java 1.8.0_131 JRE. Dropped support for Java Applets. Good for YouTube. Frequently automatically updated. Has no edit source button. Slow starting when it fiddles with a proxy. Poor downloading — it hides the fact it is doing so in the bottom left corner. Often downloads without you asking. Handles foreign language sites particularly well since it integrates with Google Translate by automatically translating. Best for interacting with Google. BrowserMark rates this as the fastest browser. Good for ecommerce. Can’t print white writing on a black background. 53% market share.
  	IE11	11.0.9600.17501	with the Java 1.8.0_131 JRE. Now works with Java Applets. Some websites will work with no other browser, though many work on everything but this eccentric browser. 10% market share.
  	SeaMonkey	2.49.2	with the Java 1.8.0_131 JRE. Similar to Firefox, with integrated Email. No longer supports Java Applets.
  	Safari	5.1.7	with the Java 1.8.0_131 JRE. For both Macs and PCs. No longer supports Java. Apple has dropped support for the PC version. Freezes. Simple and stripped down. 12% market share.
  	Avant	2018:1	with the Java 1.8.0_131 JRE. It is a fast browser, especially at starting up. Has problems with JavaScript. Excellent at rendering and printing tables. It uses the Firefox or Chrome rendering engine. In theory it should handle Java, but I can’t get it to work.
  	Opera	48.0.2685.52	with the Java 1.8.0_131 JRE. It no longer its own rendering engine, which was its main advantage. It uses Chrome. It no longer supports Java Applets.No longer lets you configure your own editor. No bookmarks. Implements SPDY for faster communication. In Turbo mode, caches pages in encrypted compressed form. 6% market share.
  	Edge	25.10586.0.0	with the Java 1.8.0_131 JRE. Stripped down browser without features. It does not support Java or any other plug-in.
  	Oracle’s Java	1.8.0_131	JRE

• It costs nothing to belong to the ring. No ads will appear on your webpages.

As owner of this Ring, I make the final decision on who gets in… but hey, I’m pretty lenient! Still interested? Then follow these instructions:

The main reasons sites don’t get on the ring are:

1. problems installing the nav bar.
2. lack of a Canadian angle.
3. website still under construction.
4. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) that works only on one browser.
5. People don’t have a website already.

Still interested? Then follow these instructions:

1. Click join on the violet Canadian Queer Ring nav bar below. If for some reason you can’t see it, click here instead. The nav bar is the violet-rose bar with links to the next and previous sites on the ring. Just follow your nose.
   Powered by WebRing.
2. If you want more explicit help on joining, installing the nav bar, etc, see these instructions.