Tuesday, July 9, 2002
Tinkerers' champion
It is not just libertarians who are concerned about the restrictions caused by America's latest copyright law. Edward Felten, a professor at Princeton University, argues that the "freedom to tinker" — the right to understand, repair and modify one's own equipment — is crucial to innovation, and as valuable to society as the freedom of speech.
Day 22: Using real lists (or faking them properly)
Mark PilgrimHowever, you can also go further and use real list markup (
<ul>and<li>tags), then use CSS to change the boring black bullet into an image. Besides being "the right way to do it" in some academic sense that you may or may not care about, this techique has additional accessibility benefits.
