This seems like a clumsy, low brow solution, not to mention the fact that they're causing their own kind of information corruption. So, if I'm search for medieval, now I have to sit and write down the variations on the them. The four letter combination eval pops up in thousands of words (my guess). It seems to me that this is creating one problem to try and solve another.
First off, let me say that as a web application developer, I have always supported cross browser development. That said, I must say that much of the fault for this lies with Netscape and the others who have been slow to adopt web standards. Anyone who has had experience developing cross browser apps has fully experienced the frustration wrought by Netscape's inabliity to live up to standards. Remember the for several years netscape was stuck in a 4.x version (which was not standards compliant) and then skipped 5.x to go right to the 6.x version, which was a piece of garbade. Today the AOL version is as bad as a porn site with garbage pop up ads and the like, which does not bode well for it being taken seriously as an web application browser. Mozilla has come quite a long way, but if we had been waiting around for the 1.0, most companies developing web applicaitons would have gone belly up. Don't get me wrong... I am not a fan of either IE and moreover not a fan of MS choke hold on innovation, but when you're trying to meet a deadline and you're stuck on a stupid issue between Netscape and IE [read: document.all vs document.layers, for example] well, you've got to err with the side who has the most users, which isn't the way you'd like to do it, but the way it must be done sometimes. By the by, I still write cross browser compliant code (the extra work done outside of my tasks on any given iteration), because I fully support web standards. But that's got to go both ways. Any browser that wants to be taken seriously needs to fully support ALL standsards, not just a piece of them.
Javascript doesn't suck entirely, and if you use native DOM code you can write perfectly acceptable javascript that runs in most browsers. The trick is to not rely on WYSIWYG IDE's to do the work for you. Either they generate sloppy code, or they generate browser specific code [read: FRONTPAGE SUX!!!!]
Flash has uses beyond eye candy, but should be used in moderation
Too much content on any one page is bad. It's confusing to the user. A good example of this is./:-)
Data Driven content is better than static
CSS Rocks, but is largely unsupported. Use in moderation
Content, content, content
Hi/lo graphic option is way cool
Navigation...make it intuitive. That is, don't make a user search for what you're offering
I've never been a big fan of rebates. Recently, trying to keep an open mind, I purchased a SprintPCS phone during their holiday rebate promotion, and mailed in the rebate following their instructions. I received a letter back saying that my rebate was rejected because I needed to send the original invoice, which I thought was ludicrous. I called Sprint and the operator told me to just send my first months bill. I complied. About two weeks later I received another letter, my original bill and all other documentation removed. The letter said they had no idea why I was sending them this letter. You can only laugh, at this point. It amazes me that companies can sit on rebates/refunds/requistions as long as they feel like it. I don't know, but this seems borderline illegal to me. As someone who will consult from time to time, if I treated my clients as poorly as I've been treated by ATT/Sprint/Verizon in the last few months, I'd be out of buisness, if not in jail.
Rebates are a scam. Hardly worth the time to document the stupid purchase in the first place.
Ya know, I'm not sure I like having some lonely, mindless, arrogant book clerk deciding what I should and should not read online. While I agree that there's a difference between reading online and the intimacy that comes from holding a book in your hand, I find that no excuse for refusing to digitize information. This information should be made available to everyone ONLINE. This way, if I want to read a book, I don't have to go to the LOC, or spend three hours on the phone talking to a clerk who wishes I had not called in the first place. I really can't believe that they should be allowed to get away with something as regressive as this.
Yeah, just because we're 'in the office' for 32.7 hours a week, that certainly doesn't mean it stops there. The key is to work as much contract as possible. Make them pay you by the hour, that way they're much less likely to choose to usurp your time. I pretty much work constantly (sometimes not sunday) but I make an effort to get paid for as many hours of time spent on a project as possible.
It makes me physically ill to read stories such as this. It makes me want to rant. But, sadly enough, ranting will soon fall in line with guns, drugs, terrorists and any other thing they can use to polarize communities and companies and individuals who are otherwise minding their own business. Please, someone explain to me how sacarificing our constitutional freedoms will ultimately improve our quality of life. It won't. We all know that (or at least a group of us know that) and yet we still entrust governmental power to a bunch of mediocre metalities whose primary interest is the linings of their billfolds being padded with other people's property. All this in the name of Democracy? I think not.
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I wanted to post a updated link for this... was under the 'today' section... ;-)
This seems like a clumsy, low brow solution, not to mention the fact that they're causing their own kind of information corruption. So, if I'm search for medieval, now I have to sit and write down the variations on the them. The four letter combination eval pops up in thousands of words (my guess). It seems to me that this is creating one problem to try and solve another.
First off, let me say that as a web application developer, I have always supported cross browser development. That said, I must say that much of the fault for this lies with Netscape and the others who have been slow to adopt web standards. Anyone who has had experience developing cross browser apps has fully experienced the frustration wrought by Netscape's inabliity to live up to standards. Remember the for several years netscape was stuck in a 4.x version (which was not standards compliant) and then skipped 5.x to go right to the 6.x version, which was a piece of garbade. Today the AOL version is as bad as a porn site with garbage pop up ads and the like, which does not bode well for it being taken seriously as an web application browser. Mozilla has come quite a long way, but if we had been waiting around for the 1.0, most companies developing web applicaitons would have gone belly up. Don't get me wrong... I am not a fan of either IE and moreover not a fan of MS choke hold on innovation, but when you're trying to meet a deadline and you're stuck on a stupid issue between Netscape and IE [read: document.all vs document.layers, for example] well, you've got to err with the side who has the most users, which isn't the way you'd like to do it, but the way it must be done sometimes. By the by, I still write cross browser compliant code (the extra work done outside of my tasks on any given iteration), because I fully support web standards. But that's got to go both ways. Any browser that wants to be taken seriously needs to fully support ALL standsards, not just a piece of them.
I've never been a big fan of rebates. Recently, trying to keep an open mind, I purchased a SprintPCS phone during their holiday rebate promotion, and mailed in the rebate following their instructions. I received a letter back saying that my rebate was rejected because I needed to send the original invoice, which I thought was ludicrous. I called Sprint and the operator told me to just send my first months bill. I complied. About two weeks later I received another letter, my original bill and all other documentation removed. The letter said they had no idea why I was sending them this letter. You can only laugh, at this point. It amazes me that companies can sit on rebates/refunds/requistions as long as they feel like it. I don't know, but this seems borderline illegal to me. As someone who will consult from time to time, if I treated my clients as poorly as I've been treated by ATT/Sprint/Verizon in the last few months, I'd be out of buisness, if not in jail. Rebates are a scam. Hardly worth the time to document the stupid purchase in the first place.
I've had many problems with their wireless divsion. my contract with them is up this month, and I'm giving them the boot. Verizon sux just as much!
Ya know, I'm not sure I like having some lonely, mindless, arrogant book clerk deciding what I should and should not read online. While I agree that there's a difference between reading online and the intimacy that comes from holding a book in your hand, I find that no excuse for refusing to digitize information. This information should be made available to everyone ONLINE. This way, if I want to read a book, I don't have to go to the LOC, or spend three hours on the phone talking to a clerk who wishes I had not called in the first place. I really can't believe that they should be allowed to get away with something as regressive as this.
Yeah, just because we're 'in the office' for 32.7 hours a week, that certainly doesn't mean it stops there. The key is to work as much contract as possible. Make them pay you by the hour, that way they're much less likely to choose to usurp your time. I pretty much work constantly (sometimes not sunday) but I make an effort to get paid for as many hours of time spent on a project as possible.
It makes me physically ill to read stories such as this. It makes me want to rant. But, sadly enough, ranting will soon fall in line with guns, drugs, terrorists and any other thing they can use to polarize communities and companies and individuals who are otherwise minding their own business. Please, someone explain to me how sacarificing our constitutional freedoms will ultimately improve our quality of life. It won't. We all know that (or at least a group of us know that) and yet we still entrust governmental power to a bunch of mediocre metalities whose primary interest is the linings of their billfolds being padded with other people's property. All this in the name of Democracy? I think not.