RadioRadio
Sunday, June 9, 2002[5:56:11 PM]
Here's a cheap way to get a rollover effect using images without using javascript -- just cascading stylesheets and html. (The links don't go anywhere.)
The trick is to set a border for the images, and use a stylesheet to change the color when the mouse "hovers" over the link.
Here is the source:
<style>
.cnav a:link {color: black}
.cnav a:visited {color: black}
.cnav a:hover {color: red}
.cnav a:active {color: green}
</style>
<div class=cnav>
<a href=""><img src="http:\//www.tdl.com/%7Ejrb/images/home.gif" border=4></a><a href=""><img src="http:\//www.tdl.com/%7Ejrb/images/mag.gif" border=4></a><a href=""><img src="http:\//www.tdl.com/%7Ejrb/images/news.gif" border=4></a>
<br><a href="">text link</a>
</div>
By using a div, you can have one set of colors for the images, and a different set of colors for the rest of the page. Note that it doesn't work in Netscape 4. Also, Mozilla doesn't use the "active" color for images.
[10:49:58 AM]
On the "meaning" of blogs. The most important thing about blogs is the ease of publishing. It's not (first) that "weblog" is important in itself, but that people want to express themselves in public. It's also key that an honest search engine makes all this information accessible. These are the fundamental differences between now and ten years ago.
Five years ago, people took to the internet with abandon. "Homepages" were all the rage, and you could see personality and creativity. But it was *hard*. Weblog software makes it easy -- to do weblogs. So people use weblog software to express themselves. The software particularly enables certain kinds of expression, but doesn't help as much for other structures -- long articles, for example.
Ultimately, weblogs will be a small -- but key -- part of the picture. The weblog value is in pointing. We need pointing, *especially* when we have software that makes publishing "content" as easy as publishing weblog pointers to content.
The value in pointing comes from "point of view". This is probably the most important place where weblogs transcend old media. Old media -- Walter Cronkite -- has turned into corporate Disneyland news. The range of topics for which their point of view is trustworthy has shrunk to approximately zero. Facts in an article may be correct, but the editorial slant of the article, and the overall context of the article will reflect the corporate agendas. The GE boss will insist on calling Florida for Bush, for example. Or New York Times will acknowledge that if you counted all the votes in Florida, Gore would have won, but frame the article as proving Bush would have won.
So for point of view, we need websites like Buzzflash, MediaWhoresOnline, etc. Every point-of-view can and will have websites, of course. Every field of interest will be (is?) covered by weblogs with various points of view.
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