Articles Posted During October 2002
link_type
Here's a difference between HTML
& XHTML of which you might not be
aware: Omitting type="text/css" when
using the link element to attach a
style sheet in XHTML documents causes
the W3C's CSS Validator to fail with
No style sheet found
.
2002-10-28 22:30:53
the_makers
Shawn Allen has written a great article about his experience at the most recent Meet the Makers in San Francisco.
2002-10-25 11:47:01
freedom_of_press
How ironic that the same day everyone's buzzing with commentary about the fact that the US is ranked 17th in the world when it comes to freedom of the press (behind both France and Germany), we find out that Google has removed 113 listings from its French & German websites because of laws in those countries that forbid some forms of controversial material.
The listings remain available on Google's US site.
2002-10-24 12:34:02
two_towers
From the Two Towers Protest FAQ:
We believe that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema's actions are in fact hate speech. The movie is intentionally being named The Two Towers in order to capitalize on the tragedy of September 11. Clearly, you cannot deny the fact that this falls under hate speech. We believe that if they will not willingly change the name, the government should step in to stop the movie's production or to force a name change.
I was really disturbed to find that 3598 people had signed the online
petition, but it turns out the vast majority are
trolling, and that the petition has been suspended due to a lack of maintenance by the petition author.
2002-10-24 09:59:56
relative positioning of floats
I posted this question to www-style (twice), but got no response.
According to the
CSS2
specification, An element is said to be
positioned if its 'position' property has a
value other than 'static'.
That's clear enough, but the spec
appears to contradict itself in its definition
of the
float
property. One one hand, it's said that
float applies to all but
positioned elements and generated content
,
which, by definition, means that elements with
position:relative cannot
be floated. But, the very next paragraph goes on
to say that [float] may be set for elements
that generate boxes that are not absolutely
positioned.
So, can an element with position:relative be floated?
2002-10-17 23:16:40
death_bite
Modesto police say that when Kelli Pratt's 65-year-old husband refused to have sex with her, she bit him to death.
She bit him. To death.
2002-10-17 19:18:26
google_grows_up
From SFGate.com:
Google's chummy relationship with Yahoo showed signs of fraying this week. After two years of using Google as its one and only search engine, Yahoo said it would consider adding others.
2002-10-14 15:35:16
koshiba
Nobel prize winner graduated at the bottom of his class:
Masatoshi Koshiba, one of the three winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, on Wednesday provided evidence of his earlier claim he was the worst student in his university class by making public a copy of a transcript issued by his alma mater, Tokyo University.
2002-10-09 14:22:44
ada_lawsuit
Think accessibility doesn't matter to you because Section 508 only applies to US Federal agencies?
From an article at law.com:
Gumson and a Miami Beach, Fla.-based disability rights group, Access Now, filed lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Miami in June and July against Dallas-based Southwest and Dallas-based American Airlines under the Americans with Disabilities Act. They are doing so under an untested legal theory. Namely, that ADA provisions on the accessibility of public accommodations to the disabled apply to Internet Web sites just as they do to brick-and-mortar facilities like movie theaters and department stores.
I've been wondering how long it'd be before the ADA was applied to the Web, and I sorta figured it would take a lawsuit to make it happen. Even if this particular case fails, it's only a matter of time until one succeeds, so this should serve as a wake-up call to anybody who does business online.
2002-10-06 23:37:42
baltimore
I bought a digital camera recently, so of course I've been experimenting with its capabilities.
2002-10-04 22:47:22
workspaces
Jason's workspace exhibit is coming along nicely, with 70 submissions in the first two weeks. There are some very nice systems in there, but it's the spaces themselves that really say something.
Now, if I could only figure out what mine says...
2002-10-02 22:33:52
show_ids
Somebody on WD requested a favelet to generate a list of the values of all IDs used in the current document. I'm not exactly sure when or why, but it seems like this could be a useful thing. So, here it is:
Show IDsI've only tested on IE5:Mac, but it should also work for IE4 or later on Windows.
For those interested in the nuts & bolts, here's what your browser parses when you select that link:
javascript:e='';for(i=0;i%3Cdocument.all.length;i++)if(document.all
%5Bi%5D.id)e+=document.all%5Bi%5D.id+'%3Cbr%3E';if(e!='')document.write
('%3Cdiv%20align=%22center%22%3E'+e+'%3C/div%3E');else%20alert('No%20
elements%20with%20ID.')
I know it seems like somewhat of a cryptic mess, but there's really nothing fancy happening here. For reference, here's the same script, before I faveletized it:
e='';
for(i=0;i < document.all.length;i++)
if(document.all[i].id)
e+=document.all[i].id+'<br>';
if(e!='')
document.write('<div align="center">'+e+'</div>');
else
alert('No elements with ID.')
I threw together an AppleScript this morning that makes quick work of such conversions, so I'll try to remember to clean it up & post it sometime in the next week or so.
2002-10-02 21:44:27
