IANAL but it seems to me this law [and any other like it] runs contrary to the UDHR.
To wit, article 19 states:
'Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.'
According to the same Wikipedia article 'The International Bill of Human Rights consists of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [...] in 1976 [...] the Bill took on the force of international law.'
So they're up against not only EU law but international law as well.
That said, it's still going to be an uphill battle to get reconnected once you're cut off...
Call me old fashioned, but in my view every Right brings with it a corresponding Duty. In this case, the flip side of the Right to Freedom of Expression is the Duty to be Civil in what you say and not go around pushing the limits of good taste [or even taste, period] as Messrs. Wilders and van Gogh are/were wont to do. So, IOW, say what you like but be polite about it.
I'm suffering from the same problem [stupid web designers who use px instead of em], viewing my pages on a 21" screen at 2048x1536 [which, according to my NVidia X Tool, amounts to 115x118 ppi].
I have found stylish to be very useful. You have to know your way around CSS and the DOM Inspector but you only have to define stuff once for each site you visit and the result is worth it: no more stupid ad columns that eat half my page and a font I can read comfortably w/out needing a magnifying glass.
The way I remember it [and I have been coding HTML since, oh, '95], the IFRAME tag was m$' answer to Navigator 4 having a 'src' attribute for a DIV so you could load an external document in it. There was also a JavaScript method/property to change or retrieve the contents of a DIV. To me, this seemed like a sensible, logical and very useful extension of the DIV tag.
Along then, with the advent of MSIE4[?] came the abhorrence called IFRAME since m$ had to have the same functionality [but in a different fashion, obviously]. A frame is a window object and where the hell is the logic in embedding a window in another window?
And then there's the difficulties when scripting IFRAMEs. Try getting to the document.body of a page in an IFRAME. Or even worse, since in MSIE the event is a property of the window, have fun trying to intercept events in an IFRAME.
And then, to make matters worse, the w3c, in its infinite wisdom, decided to standardize IFRAMEs over the DIV src attribute, probably trying to pick features in equal measure from MSIE and Navigator when they standardized the DOM.
I agree strongly. I have been using a computer for the last 20 years [or there about] and from the very first moment pointers and pointer devices became available to me I have been using my left hand because of the key-clusters mentioned even tho I'm righthanded.
Two other bits of advice to avoid RSI. Use a trackball instead of a mouse; I never saw the sense in moving the pointer device to move the pointer, it's much easier to use with the left hand when you're right handed and the hand rests on the device all the time, reducing the risk of RSI. And two: don't do everything with the mouse; learn the keyboard shortcuts of your applications/window manager.
When eps I first came out I was lucky enuff to be living in the UK [I'm from Holland originally] where the situation vis-a-vis merchandising was much more favourable.
One of the items I bought was a so-called poster magazine, basically a folded A3 sized poster, which had short articles printed on the back. One of these articles was a back story on Darth Vader, telling how he fell into a lava lake [or some such] after a fight with Obi Wan explaining why he had to use the breathing apparatus seen in the movie. [Rememember that this was 1977!]
I assume this magazine was a UK version of a similar USA publication.
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If anyone knows how to get the status bar back that would be nice.
Check out status-4-evah.
IANAL but it seems to me this law [and any other like it] runs contrary to the UDHR.
To wit, article 19 states:
'Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.'
[source: Wikipedia - my emphasis]
According to the same Wikipedia article 'The International Bill of Human Rights consists of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [...] in 1976 [...] the Bill took on the force of international law.'
So they're up against not only EU law but international law as well.
That said, it's still going to be an uphill battle to get reconnected once you're cut off...
Call me old fashioned, but in my view every Right brings with it a corresponding Duty. In this case, the flip side of the Right to Freedom of Expression is the Duty to be Civil in what you say and not go around pushing the limits of good taste [or even taste, period] as Messrs. Wilders and van Gogh are/were wont to do. So, IOW, say what you like but be polite about it.
I'm suffering from the same problem [stupid web designers who use px instead of em], viewing my pages on a 21" screen at 2048x1536 [which, according to my NVidia X Tool, amounts to 115x118 ppi].
I have found stylish to be very useful. You have to know your way around CSS and the DOM Inspector but you only have to define stuff once for each site you visit and the result is worth it: no more stupid ad columns that eat half my page and a font I can read comfortably w/out needing a magnifying glass.
May be slightly OT but still.
The way I remember it [and I have been coding HTML since, oh, '95], the IFRAME tag was m$' answer to Navigator 4 having a 'src' attribute for a DIV so you could load an external document in it. There was also a JavaScript method/property to change or retrieve the contents of a DIV. To me, this seemed like a sensible, logical and very useful extension of the DIV tag.
Along then, with the advent of MSIE4[?] came the abhorrence called IFRAME since m$ had to have the same functionality [but in a different fashion, obviously]. A frame is a window object and where the hell is the logic in embedding a window in another window?
And then there's the difficulties when scripting IFRAMEs. Try getting to the document.body of a page in an IFRAME. Or even worse, since in MSIE the event is a property of the window, have fun trying to intercept events in an IFRAME.
And then, to make matters worse, the w3c, in its infinite wisdom, decided to standardize IFRAMEs over the DIV src attribute, probably trying to pick features in equal measure from MSIE and Navigator when they standardized the DOM.
Blech, I detest IFRAMEs.
Two other bits of advice to avoid RSI. Use a trackball instead of a mouse; I never saw the sense in moving the pointer device to move the pointer, it's much easier to use with the left hand when you're right handed and the hand rests on the device all the time, reducing the risk of RSI. And two: don't do everything with the mouse; learn the keyboard shortcuts of your applications/window manager.
When eps I first came out I was lucky enuff to be living in the UK [I'm from Holland originally] where the situation vis-a-vis merchandising was much more favourable.
One of the items I bought was a so-called poster magazine, basically a folded A3 sized poster, which had short articles printed on the back. One of these articles was a back story on Darth Vader, telling how he fell into a lava lake [or some such] after a fight with Obi Wan explaining why he had to use the breathing apparatus seen in the movie. [Rememember that this was 1977!]
I assume this magazine was a UK version of a similar USA publication.
Hope this clarifies.
Lester.