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

[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.