Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-15-2009

[andrewducker]

• Daily Routines
  How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days
  (tags: writing work productivity creativity organization)
• What TV anchors do during the advert breaks
  WGN-TV weekend anchors Robert Jordan and Jackie Bange do a little dance number each Saturday and Sunday night during their telecast's first commercial break. Word is that it started out as a short 10-second dance, but now they have choreographed it into the full 2:40 of the break.
  (tags: funny video news)
• Ecstasy's long-term effects revealed
  And the answer is.....unclear.
  (tags: science health drugs ecstasy)
• 5 obscure HTML tags that you should know and even use
  I knew only one.
  (tags: html)

Comments

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

I know and use the first two of those HTML tags, and know but don't use the last. The other two would probably not be much use to me.

[matgb]

IAWTC. And I taught her the first one. Plus the second I have styled on my LJ specifically as it's useful and it's the default for the "quote" button on LJ replies in most of the layouts.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Brings back memories of all the brain damage LSD did to people who didn't take it. Somehow we never got that generation of kids born with nonstandard numbers of limbs and such because their parents had dabbled in the filthy stuff.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

re: HTML tags:

<wbr> isn't part of any of the standards.

<q> doesn't insert quotations - that's for the :before and :after pseudo-elements and the content property in CSS). The problem re: IE is not that it doesn't support q, but that it doesn't implement all of CSS2.

<bdo> is used when mixing rtl and ltr text in the same document. The author of the blog post has never had to typeset Hebrew or Arabic fragments alongside English (etc).

A bit of a sloppy article, unfortunately.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

This.

(I didn't know only one, but thanks for the link!)

[andrewducker]

I don't think it's trying to introduce people to standards and what they should do - just tell you what functionality you _can_ use.

Which is more the kind of thing I find useful, to be honest.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Introducing people to non-standard markup is wrong, as the browser wars of the 1990s demonstrated. This is why widely-implemented open standards are crucial to the continued success of the Web.

Encouraging people to expect non-standard functionality is unhelpful and counter-productive. If you've come to expect that browser X behaves a certain way (going beyond the behaviour prescribed in the specs) when presented with certain markup, there's a tendency to assume that it is required behaviour. This sort of thinking is responsible for the common misconception that links are blue.

[andrewducker]

As a user I don't really know what _is_ standard/non-standard, and when knocking together a website I don't really have the energy or inclination to discover more than what works.

And all my links are blue.

Except for the ones that aren't.

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

Love the anchors and the HTML!! Thanks. :)