If crusty old Peter Howell would just grow up and do his research like a proper journalist, he'd understand that, here in Canada, it is not illegal to download music for private use.
Part VIII, Section 80 of the Copyright Act:
reproducing all or any substantial part of... a musical work embodied in a sound recording... onto an audio recording medium for the private use of the person who makes the copy does not constitute an infringement.
We also pay a hefty hidden levy on blank recording media here.
It may be illegal to download music in the United States, whose media has brainwashed Canadians, including the lazier journalists, but it is not illegal in Canada.
The requirement for variable font sizes is something of a myth in accessible Web design. The only browser with a problem resizing fonts is IE on Windows. People with an actual need to resize fonts, as distinct from people who are visually-impaired enough to require screen magnification (which blows up everything on the screen), should switch browsers.
It's an oversold problem.
One could certainly have argued for standards-compliant navigation columns that appear and disappear. Those columns of nav links could be improved. But the winning site is itself a massive improvement over W3.org.
I know Google relies heavily on links to weight its search results, but it also uses meta keywords. When will Google reward those of us who slog through the process of creating Dublin Core metadata? When will Google use that metadata to index pages? While some people load up meta keywords with extraneous entries, Dublin Core users are likely not to do that, producing more reliable self-indexing information.
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The requirement for variable font sizes is something of a myth in accessible Web design. The only browser with a problem resizing fonts is IE on Windows. People with an actual need to resize fonts, as distinct from people who are visually-impaired enough to require screen magnification (which blows up everything on the screen), should switch browsers. It's an oversold problem. One could certainly have argued for standards-compliant navigation columns that appear and disappear. Those columns of nav links could be improved. But the winning site is itself a massive improvement over W3.org.
I know Google relies heavily on links to weight its search results, but it also uses meta keywords. When will Google reward those of us who slog through the process of creating Dublin Core metadata? When will Google use that metadata to index pages? While some people load up meta keywords with extraneous entries, Dublin Core users are likely not to do that, producing more reliable self-indexing information.
Just a thought.