Friday, July 12, 2002

Day 25: Using real horizontal rules (or faking them properly)

Mark Pilgrim

Suppose you want a divider between your posts. Regular horizontal rules (<hr> tags) are boring, so you use an image instead. This works, and can easily be made more accessible with the addition of proper alt text.

However, you can also go further and use a real horizontal rule, then use a little CSS trick to display it as an image in modern browsers. Older browsers and text-only browsers will ignore the CSS and just render a horizontal rule in their native style. (Text-only browsers generally use a row of underscores or dashes, expanded to fit the current screen width.)

posted at 10:11:22 PM — permalink

NetNewsWire Lite public beta

Brent Simmons

NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use news reader for web sites. It uses a familiar three-paned interface — like that of Outlook Express or Mailsmith — to display websites and their news. It reads RSS files. (It's not a screen-scraper.)

 NetNewsWire Lite public beta

This is super cool. Exactly what I've been looking for in a dedicated RSS news reader. Bonus points for letting me import my Radio subscriptions without any thought on my part. (Don't Make Me Think!)

posted at 9:54:14 PM — permalink