E-mail glitch reveals others' information.  iVillage.com system taken offline after problem revealed...  [MyFreePress.com] 

Gimpysoft: Fort Awesome Control Panel
Ryan invites you to play with his light switches... 

You and We: a collective experiment  [co][nz.org] 

There's several growing versions of Life in the Aggregator at Radio Free Blogistan and gRadio... 

A Boy and His Blog  [LIGHT and POWER]

I enjoyed reading I Can Dodge Bullets... 

MovableType Trackback standalone released  [brilliant corners] 

Neighbour jailed for branding pedophile's genitals  [Exploding Cigar] 

If it's spam, the message is "delete".  Frustrated consumers are zapping unbidden messages without reading past the subject lines, making it hard for e-mail marketers to get their message through.  [CNET News.com]

"Unbidden messages."  Isn't that what makes them spam?  Isn't is "e-mail marketers" who are filling up our inboxes?  The article seems to be written with the premise that we all recieve some spam that we might want to keep.  Not true, for me anyway... 

After just reading yet another blogger attacking three different weblogs for their choice of colors which are difficult for him to read, I've just got to bring this to your attention.

In IE, under the Accessibility options, you can choose to:
"Ignore colors specified on Web pages"
"Ignore font styles specified on Web pages"
"Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages"

In NS, under the Color preferences, you can choose to:
"Use my chosen colors, ignoring the colors specified"

In NS, under the Font preferences, you can choose not to:
"Allow documents to use other fonts"

So -- why publically attack others for their design choices when you have the power to override them?  Accessibility, indeed, is important, but why do you choose to overlook already implemented solutions and go after others' designs?  They're allowed to make choices, too... 

Dave posted several entries yesterday pointing to sites that he says he can't read, yet in each case, I visited the site and was able to adjust the font sizes through my browser (IE on a PC).  In both cases, font sizes were defined correctly to allow user adjustment.  In neither case did I have to adjust the sizes to easily read the site (and I have 52-year-old eyes).

So I have to ask what the point is to singling out sites and publically ridiculing them like that.   I also have to wonder, based on the screenshots, if Dave has his browser's default font settings set to some ridiculously small size.

I support the current effort to encourage Microsoft to make it easier for the user to adjust font sizes on hard-to-read pages (Dave is part of that effort), but if that's the point of the posts, I'd hope there's more positive ways to accomplish it... 

August 2002

 


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