Cross posted via Archipelago...
Reuters: Canadian Pair to Get Figure Skating Gold. [It looks like the Canadian skating pair will receive a gold medal after all... bit of a cop out thinks I.]
[The French judge has been suspended, guilty of misconduct. A deliberation took place where the ISU has decided that the two pairs should be considered as equal in their performance. The IOC was requested to present a gold medal to the Canadian pair. They've agreed.]
diveintomark: The moral argument for CSS is accessibility. "Each client selects the best stylesheet they can handle (maybe the most complex one, maybe a device-specific one, or maybe no stylesheet at all), and the content of the page is rendered appropriately. This means people coming to your site from an outside link don't need to hunt around for a separate accessible site, because your site is universally accessible." [Instead they have to hunt around for the style sheet selector? It might be a step in the right direction, but I don't see this as universal access. I'm not sure that this ability to transform applies to the universal access model anyway. Isn't that closer to having stairs and a ramp?]
Mark updates: "No, I phrased it badly, so you missed the crucial point. Each client device selects the best stylesheet it can handle, and this happens automatically, without user intervention. I have updated the essay to make this point more clearly."
David Carter-Tod: "I agree that a selector is no great advance, but I suspect that a visually impaired reader will have style sheets turned off or their own style sheet dominant." and continues "Similarly, for printing it's automatically achieved with the media attribute, so again there's no conscious choice or separate action involved." [Both things I didn't understand... so here's hoping that someone writes a BDG for CSS. I already have O'Reilly's Definitive Guide, which I will work through this weekend.]
Jonathon Delacour : the heart of things. "Almost like CSS vs. The Axis of Evil. There's no need for that. We'll let the CSS Themes for Radio present the case for CSS and allow Radio users to make up their own minds." [Just so.]
Subscriber Interface for weblogs.com. "As a fully fledged weblogs.com adict, i find the hourly update in Radio to be too long a wait, so i constantly have www.weblogs.com open, and keep hitting refresh, looking for blogs that i follow."
Sam Ruby's Radio Weblog: A Busy Developers Guide to WSDL 1.1. [It's nice to see the BDG thing growing. It's a great way to share and get things done. Go Sam! Is it just me or do you also think this is a radio station every time you read "WSDL". "double you ESS dee ell" a la the old WNBC pronunciation.]
dr.moensted: Eudora Internet Mail Server Filter page.
"Great googly moogly! I am going to be able to use Archipelago to edit both my Manila and my Radio site! Sweeeeeet!" [That's exactly correct Al!]
More from Zimran: "If you want to find the real iceberg in the technology world, it's that the 1% of people who create technology are utterly clueless at figuring out what 99% of people actually want. The technology world is a wasteland of pointlessly hard to use products that don't benefit anyone and were expensive to produce. Joel might be OK with this--I'm not." [Zimran, propose a solution too. Joel and many other developers feel that users don't know what they want, you say developers are clueless with regard to figuring out want everyone wants. Who knows?]
[Here's what I know. When developers are also users the software works. That's why being in a situation where a developer "eats the dog food" is so critical. It creates the map between user and developer and back again. Everyone wins.]
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