You are right about that, and what the final result would look like. Still, that's a pretty bad rule to change an inline tag into a block. Surely its better to reserve such things to class rules, not tag rules. It's probably why many submissions I've seen on the Firehose have looked similarly broken.
My guess is that, since "From the article:" sections were historically wrapped with the italic tag, the redesigner decided that they needed to be called out better, so to work with old submissions decided to get the appearance he wanted by repurposing the I tag rather than risk converting all the old articles from Is to BLOCKQUOTEs or DIVs. In fact, as I recall it was a requirement of the redesign contest to work with the site as written not require database conversion.
And thus are we tied by the traditions of the past, however misguided.
Unfortunately, it would be nigh impossible to get submitters to use <i class=italic> for traditional italic</i>.
Oh well. At the very least, make sure tags get closed in submissions before going live.
Eurogamer had the chance to speak with well known game designer Warren Spector (Deus Ex, Thief)
It would be better if we could say <span class=title>Deus Ex</span> where title applies an italic style in story submissions. Generally allow Slashdot-approved class references.
I'm only being obsessive about saying the italic tag is legal in Strict as it was a previous point of contention.
Eurogamer had the chance to speak with well known game designer Warren Spector (<em>Deus Ex, <em>Thief</em>)
That should read:
Eurogamer had the chance to speak with well known game designer Warren Spector (<i> Deus Ex,</i> <i> Thief</i> )
Not only is the italic <I> tag not deprecated in HTML 4.01 Strict, but abusing <em> to get a presentational effect at odds with its semantic meaning (for emphasis) is wrong. That's the same kind of abuse as using <table> for page layout instead of tabular data.
Apple Computer signed an agreement with Apple Records in the 1970s not to ever produce, publish, distribute or sell music, in order to keep the trademark.
Apple Records doesn't have the resources to follow through on the iTunes suit, although they did file one, and are 100% in the right.
On 5 February 2007, Apple Inc. and Apple Corps announced a settlement of their trademark dispute under which Apple Inc. will own all of the trademarks related to "Apple" and will license certain of those trademarks back to Apple Corps for their continued use. The settlement ends the ongoing trademark lawsuit between the companies, with each party bearing its own legal costs, and Apple Inc. will continue using its name and logos on iTunes. The settlement includes terms that are confidential.
If you really wanted to be taking on a project as big as coding a new feature for mtv you wouldn't let two hours of sifting through mailing list archives to find an ideal hardware setup get in the way.
OK, so point me at those archives, or a development wiki, something that can get me up to speed with the code and what tools and dev. environment are recommended.
I need something to push me out of the inertia of not knowing where to begin.
I have seven TiVos, and I want to use MythTV. In fact, I want to help develop MythTV in my spare time. My main barrier is I need someone to point me toward a setup which will give me the best control over both recording and code revision, including personal vetting of every revision coming from the official distribution to ensure it won't disrupt my own customizations or whether it renders mine moot.
I plan to take the code to a level where it could be used to schedule your own TV station, 24/7 or less, loaded with options and as flexible as a circus yoga master. I'm sure most development has been for in-band control. I want to develop a comprehensive out-of-band control system for it, and then marry the two.
Additionally, they are forbidden from encrypting the digital broadcast channels carried on cable (SD digital or HD). They can however encrypt anything else they want.
My cable company was telling me they didn't have any boxes. It took some searching but I found and printed out that whole FCC ruling and highlighted all the relevant portions. The same ruling also requires new acquisitions of cable boxes by cable companies to have the ports. But it seemed that just by having it in hand they acknowledged everything in it and gave me a Firewire-enabled box that same day. (Incidentally, the same ruling seems to make cable boxes that downconvert HD to SD an FCC violation as it doesn't encourage consumer conversion to HD-capable equipment.)
Unfortunately I no longer have a link to where to find it, but some Googling for some of the phrases quoted above should turn up a few copies. I do know the PDF copy I found had a error in how they enumerated the findings.
It took a bit longer to get recording working on the Mac Pro. The cable box and my Canopus DV bridge don't like to play with each other, and occasionally I have to reboot the cable box to establish a valid connection. iRecord doesn't work at all with my box (SA 3250HD). I'm not expecting it to be able to tune the channel, but I also expect it not to just sit there doing nothing when the time to record goes by. So I use AV/C Browser to establish the connection, VirtualDVHS to record, VNC to play as it records, and MPEG StreamClip to convert. (It would be nice to have a non-recording playback option.)
I'm also having no luck trying to record the S/PDIF out of the cable box with the S/PDIF-in on my Mac Pro. Sometimes I just want to record the 5.1 audio from the cable box, such as some TV themes for resequencing and playing on my iPod. I'm guessing no one else is having problems as I haven't found any tips anywhere on how to get it to work. (I should be able to record the digital audio that way even from channels where the Firewire output is encrypted, yes?)
But iTunes songs can be played on more than just iPods. They can also be played on Macs and PCs, including portable laptops, running the iTunes software.
Well, still record the crappy audio. It will help to synchronize the separate tracks.
When I edited together a two-camera wedding shoot to DVD for a friend, the cameras didn't have the same timecode, and one of them had to change tapes frequently. I used their on-board audio to sync the images together, then another audio recording from the sound system to replace that (which had to be rate-adjusted due to it being just an audio cassette, so having the camera audio helped to establish sync).
If the cameras had their internal mikes disabled and recorded no audio, it would have been hell trying to get lip sync right. For a non-video podcast, you still want to keep the conversation's timing close to correct.
The only problem with VOIP is latency. It's a subtle thing, so whether or not it's a factor will depend on the type of discussion, but it can easily throw off comic
Noise level from the computer and its hard drives is usually cited as a reason not to do that when doing a dedicated theater. But then of course there are three easy solutions to the problem:
build your computer to have less noise in a home-theater case,
install the computer on the other side of the wall the display is on, or
if there is no suitable wall, build one, soundproofed to taste.
OK, what if Google instead just demoted Viacom links a little in the search results? They could call it an enhancement to their algorithm to adjust ranking of sites by their quality of good vs. evil.
What? You mean that there should be some drawn-out process to keep the most-commonly-used XML format from being standardized?
"For a member of the High Council there's no such thing as standard procedure."
"The book says --"
"Never mind what the book says, Section Leader. All you have to worry about's what I say, right?"
"Absolutely, sir."
"Absolutely, Section Leader. And what I say is that if a High Councilor wishes to swing stark naked through the trees and spit on the surveillance scanners, then swinging stark naked through the trees, spitting on the surveillance scanners becomes standard procedure, at least for him. Or his wife."
"Now there's a thought!"
"Huh! Not one to dwell on, given your present rank."
"One law for the rich, eh Major?"
"There's no law for the rich, Forres, and even less for the rich, personal friends of the President."
[Puts his feet up on the console] "They are only civilians, though."
"Do you want to join them?" [Nods at feet]
[Takes feet down] "Sorry, sir."
"If you want to get on in this man's army, Forres, you've got to learn to distinguish between civilians who are and civilians who aren't."
"Sir." [Thinks twice] "Are and aren't what, sir?"
"When you know that, Section Leader, you'll be ready for promotion."
10 most important video games of all time: Spacewar! (1962), Star Raiders (1979), Zork (1980), Tetris (1985), SimCity (1989), Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990), Civilization I/II (1991), Doom (1993), Warcraft series (beginning 1994) and Sensible World of Soccer (1994).
Why are these titles wrapped in emphasis (<em></em>) tags? The quoted article used no emphasis here. If you want them to be in italics for presentational reasons, they should be wrapped in italic (<i></i>) tags instead.
I notice these things because of my stylesheet:
i, em { font-family: serif ! important; } em, strong { font-variant: small-caps ! important; }
The first rule is primarily because sans-serif italics don't italicize on this machine.
in my stylesheet. That would be more annoying than running my mouse over the link text and diverting my vision to the status line for every link on a page.
I barely tolerate this more useful rule:
a[name]:before { content: "[#" attr(name) "] "; }
which gets really bad when sites don't close named anchors before opening multiple paragraphs or throughout their navigation bars, thinking their closure is implied.
Most of them will probably just make a character from their genitals.....
Indeed. Didn't one game already try this for faces and end up with a lot of penis- and vagina-faced avatars running around?
If you let the end-user upload the data, you don't know what alterations he'll be making to that data. You could end up sitting behind someone with goatse for a head in the virtual cinema.
If the word "videoplay" in the URI didn't help you I'm not sure that a (video) tag would.
Which is why I qualified it with, "when it isn't necessarily apparent in the URL." Not everyone is in the habit of checking the browser's status line[*] before clicking a link. I failed to check for it this time, going for a quick middle-click open-in-new-tab stay-on-this-tab.
But "(video)" next to the link is a lot harder not to notice, and certainly not as bad as embedding stock market links after the name of every publicly traded company and before the apostrophe-S as seen on a lot of news sites.
[*] Status line or location bar or wherever other browsers may choose to display such information on hover if not subjected to a javascript override.
I try to look before I click, but it is tiresome to have to do it all the time. I use stylesheet rules to alert me to various issues like javascript: links, PDFs, and goatse so I don't need to run my finger over a link and hope I'll actually see the actual link's address in the status line. Sites like fark.com run off-site links through a redirector to track story popularity; others do the same but use Javascript to rewrite the status line to hide the redirector from you. And who knows when something undesirable may happen just on a mouseover event on some sites?
audio which might be disruptive in a work environment
Your boss just walked by didn't s/he??
No, I don't have speakers on my work machine, flash is disabled, and I can't play any video for that very reason. Well, that and that they're generally a nuisance, so I feel for those that are vulnerable to such things. It would just be nice to be informed a little more prominently than having to check every URI's destination.
For PDFs at least one has the option of a client-side stylesheet to inspect the ends of the href attributes of anchors for ".pdf" and generating text after the tag. There isn't a consistent naming scheme for video servers to hang a CSS rule from.
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My guess is that, since "From the article:" sections were historically wrapped with the italic tag, the redesigner decided that they needed to be called out better, so to work with old submissions decided to get the appearance he wanted by repurposing the I tag rather than risk converting all the old articles from Is to BLOCKQUOTEs or DIVs. In fact, as I recall it was a requirement of the redesign contest to work with the site as written not require database conversion.
And thus are we tied by the traditions of the past, however misguided.
Unfortunately, it would be nigh impossible to get submitters to use <i class=italic> for traditional italic</i>.
Oh well. At the very least, make sure tags get closed in submissions before going live.
I'm only being obsessive about saying the italic tag is legal in Strict as it was a previous point of contention.
That should read: Not only is the italic <I> tag not deprecated in HTML 4.01 Strict, but abusing <em> to get a presentational effect at odds with its semantic meaning (for emphasis) is wrong. That's the same kind of abuse as using <table> for page layout instead of tabular data.
I'm guessing you missed the news: So there will be no more lawsuits between Apple Inc. and Apple Corps. Apple Inc.'s press release.
I need something to push me out of the inertia of not knowing where to begin.
I have seven TiVos, and I want to use MythTV. In fact, I want to help develop MythTV in my spare time. My main barrier is I need someone to point me toward a setup which will give me the best control over both recording and code revision, including personal vetting of every revision coming from the official distribution to ensure it won't disrupt my own customizations or whether it renders mine moot.
I plan to take the code to a level where it could be used to schedule your own TV station, 24/7 or less, loaded with options and as flexible as a circus yoga master. I'm sure most development has been for in-band control. I want to develop a comprehensive out-of-band control system for it, and then marry the two.
Just help me get set up and I'll run with it.
Additionally, they are forbidden from encrypting the digital broadcast channels carried on cable (SD digital or HD). They can however encrypt anything else they want.
My cable company was telling me they didn't have any boxes. It took some searching but I found and printed out that whole FCC ruling and highlighted all the relevant portions. The same ruling also requires new acquisitions of cable boxes by cable companies to have the ports. But it seemed that just by having it in hand they acknowledged everything in it and gave me a Firewire-enabled box that same day. (Incidentally, the same ruling seems to make cable boxes that downconvert HD to SD an FCC violation as it doesn't encourage consumer conversion to HD-capable equipment.)
Unfortunately I no longer have a link to where to find it, but some Googling for some of the phrases quoted above should turn up a few copies. I do know the PDF copy I found had a error in how they enumerated the findings.
It took a bit longer to get recording working on the Mac Pro. The cable box and my Canopus DV bridge don't like to play with each other, and occasionally I have to reboot the cable box to establish a valid connection. iRecord doesn't work at all with my box (SA 3250HD). I'm not expecting it to be able to tune the channel, but I also expect it not to just sit there doing nothing when the time to record goes by. So I use AV/C Browser to establish the connection, VirtualDVHS to record, VNC to play as it records, and MPEG StreamClip to convert. (It would be nice to have a non-recording playback option.)
I'm also having no luck trying to record the S/PDIF out of the cable box with the S/PDIF-in on my Mac Pro. Sometimes I just want to record the 5.1 audio from the cable box, such as some TV themes for resequencing and playing on my iPod. I'm guessing no one else is having problems as I haven't found any tips anywhere on how to get it to work. (I should be able to record the digital audio that way even from channels where the Firewire output is encrypted, yes?)
But iTunes songs can be played on more than just iPods. They can also be played on Macs and PCs, including portable laptops, running the iTunes software.
And they can be converted into CD tracks.
Well, still record the crappy audio. It will help to synchronize the separate tracks.
When I edited together a two-camera wedding shoot to DVD for a friend, the cameras didn't have the same timecode, and one of them had to change tapes frequently. I used their on-board audio to sync the images together, then another audio recording from the sound system to replace that (which had to be rate-adjusted due to it being just an audio cassette, so having the camera audio helped to establish sync).
If the cameras had their internal mikes disabled and recorded no audio, it would have been hell trying to get lip sync right. For a non-video podcast, you still want to keep the conversation's timing close to correct.
It's news in the same way that ATI HDMI cards falsely claimed HDCP support was news last year.
OK, what if Google instead just demoted Viacom links a little in the search results? They could call it an enhancement to their algorithm to adjust ranking of sites by their quality of good vs. evil.
WWSCD? (What Would Santa Claus Do?)
They're in Alignment, font styles, and horizontal rules : Fonts : Font style elements: the TT, I, B, BIG, SMALL, STRIKE, S, and U elements.
Underline and the strikes are deprecated, but the others are only "discouraged in favor of style sheets".
Meanwhile, where's the WBR tag in that DTD? Did slashcode generate that?
I notice these things because of my stylesheet: The first rule is primarily because sans-serif italics don't italicize on this machine.
I barely tolerate this more useful rule: which gets really bad when sites don't close named anchors before opening multiple paragraphs or throughout their navigation bars, thinking their closure is implied.
Most of them will probably just make a character from their genitals.....
Indeed. Didn't one game already try this for faces and end up with a lot of penis- and vagina-faced avatars running around?
If you let the end-user upload the data, you don't know what alterations he'll be making to that data. You could end up sitting behind someone with goatse for a head in the virtual cinema.
But "(video)" next to the link is a lot harder not to notice, and certainly not as bad as embedding stock market links after the name of every publicly traded company and before the apostrophe-S as seen on a lot of news sites.
[*] Status line or location bar or wherever other browsers may choose to display such information on hover if not subjected to a javascript override.
I try to look before I click, but it is tiresome to have to do it all the time. I use stylesheet rules to alert me to various issues like javascript: links, PDFs, and goatse so I don't need to run my finger over a link and hope I'll actually see the actual link's address in the status line. Sites like fark.com run off-site links through a redirector to track story popularity; others do the same but use Javascript to rewrite the status line to hide the redirector from you. And who knows when something undesirable may happen just on a mouseover event on some sites?
For PDFs at least one has the option of a client-side stylesheet to inspect the ends of the href attributes of anchors for ".pdf" and generating text after the tag. There isn't a consistent naming scheme for video servers to hang a CSS rule from.
Already doing that, but I also think the links themselves should be marked so we won't have to wait for keyword tagging in future.