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Many Australian developers are very well aware of ALT tags and their importance. I would guess that there is just as great a percentage of American developers not using ALT tags as Australian developers doing the same. Recent similar legal issues have shown that AOL have been careless with regard to accessibility issues also. Incidentally, I would be interested to know if the IBM developers were Americans or Australians.

I do not see the relevance of your comment: "But I don't think Australia is off the hook--they apparently didn't think of it either."

IBM were contracted here as the experts/consultants. It is up to them to use ALT tags and explain their inclusion to the client. When you commission the construction of a cabinet, you can hardly be expected to insist that the maker uses specific glues, timber, joins, etc. The cabinet maker should make these decisions (and explain them if necessary) themselves, and any maker taking the easy road deserves a poor reputation.

I completely agree that IBM should be forced to accept the costs of these fixes. Hopefully it will teach developers world-wide that accessibility is not something to be taken lightly.

I encourage every Web site developer who reads this comment to visit evolt.org , and join our list for Web developers. Many of our members quickly learn the importance of the ALT tag, usability issues, etc.

This was posted by another /. reader in regards to the Classic Browsers Given New Life thread


The other way of doing this of course, is simply to download and install the appropriate browser from the evolt.org browser archive at http://browsers.evolt.org/.

The other way of doing this of course, is simply to download and install the appropriate browser from the evolt.org browser archive at http://browsers.evolt.org/.


"Give the anarchist a cigarette"

Well if you really want to know how it was 'in the old days' (TM) you can slide over to Evolt.org and download your own copy of these ancient browsers. It's much more fun.

I'm not sure if anyone else has posted this yet, but there is a somewhat helpful service: www.unclaimeddomains.com. I believe that it posts you a daily/weekly email of domains that have expired and are now available.

I have not tried the service, but some users have complained that 'expired' domains, are not being released by NSI. Kinda kills off the value of the service, eh?

Anyway, I figuure that someone might find it useful - I picked up the URL from thelist at evolt.org.

What a lie. Just as Wired is out of touch these days, so is Hotwired/Lycos. Webmonkey has only headed downhill in recent years, producing progressively simplistic, shallow, "beginners" articles suited to who? None other than the beginners using Tripod and Lycos.

To claim Webmonkey (or Hotwired) have been unaffected by their own ownership dramas is outrageous

Remember, Webmonkey are the same people who claimed ownership and copyright of everything posted to their email discussion list - prompting users to leave and form evolt.org

In contrast, Slashdot has continued to operate as it always has - the material posted hasn't changed, and I do believe that roblimo et al would leave if the site's editorial independence truly were in jeopardy. That will be our signal, as site visitors, to stop using Slashdot.

Bad form, Webmonkey!

The mechanism by which real communities were historically moulded from raping, pillaging hordes into the polite and modernised societies which many parts of the world is largely that of an internalisation of the power systems - self-discipline to social norms in other words.

Originally, as noted, there were no rules in society. If you wanted to do something, you did it and didn't care about consequences to anyone else but you. The only way to get anyone to obey was through a range of vicious threats - the medieval times were full of them.

However, once you persuade a community to self-moderate, (and the meta-moderation here is quite similar), such draconian measures just aren't necessary. Few will even think of significantly stepping out of line. Fewer still will actually do so. And when that self-moderation happens internally within each member, destructive behaviour is very rare indeed.

Some communities do operate like this - evolt.org is one of them. Evolt members do enforce community norms without admin intervention - for a community of 3,000 self-opinionated web developers like me, to not to have a flamewar for months at a time is almost unheard of. And the last few times that someone's ripped off our (now former) design, it's been members of the community who have pointed it out and sent private 'cease and desist' notices.

If you want more of the theory behind this, have a look at Foucault's Discipline and Punish.

Fair warning - Amazon Associates apply. Circumvent if you feel that way

evolt.org has a positive review of Napster here, with a walkthrough on how to use it. A couple of people have posted follow ups with some extra info.

As others have posted, Wired is reporting that the RIAA is suing Napster - because apparently alot of Napster traffic is made up of unauthorised music.

Alot of Internet traffic relates to illegal activites, etc, so err, let's sue it! ;p

evolt.org has a positive review of Napster here, with a walkthrough on how to use it. A couple of people have posted follow ups with some extra info.

As others have posted, Wired is reporting that the RIAA is suing Napster - because apparently alot of Napster traffic is made up of unauthorised music.

Alot of Internet traffic relates to illegal activites, etc, so err, let's sue it! ;p

Thanks for all the comments so far. Hopefully this gets moderated up so some people can actually read it :)

.djc.

There's an article at evolt.org ( Don't Panic About GIFs ) on this subject, with a few added comments /.-style from readers.

One of these additions suggests that the Unisys patent is not enforceable in Australia (among a few other major countries). I encourage people to read the article linked, and (even though it was posted back in August) feel free to add further information likely to be considered relevant.

Please note that evolt.org is a resource largely for Web designers, so even though there are many OSS-related postings, a lot of the content is aimed at those who produce their images on Windows/MacOS machines. As such, the original article is more of a "if you are using Photoshop, then calm down - you're OK!" type thing, than applicable to those using free image-manipulating software.

There's an article at evolt.org ( Don't Panic About GIFs ) on this subject, with a few added comments /.-style from readers.

One of these additions suggests that the Unisys patent is not enforceable in Australia (among a few other major countries). I encourage people to read the article linked, and (even though it was posted back in August) feel free to add further information likely to be considered relevant.

Please note that evolt.org is a resource largely for Web designers, so even though there are many OSS-related postings, a lot of the content is aimed at those who produce their images on Windows/MacOS machines. As such, the original article is more of a "if you are using Photoshop, then calm down - you're OK!" type thing, than applicable to those using free image-manipulating software.

A lot of people have mentioned the fact that you're webserver should be optimized, but no one has really said how.. A couple months ago, I put something together on exactly this subject, hopefully it can help peole that want to tune a server in preperation of the /. effect.
http://evolt.org/index.cfm?menu= 8&cid=193&catid=18.

.djc.