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NYTimes on: the American perspective of Canada, flawed Ecstasy studies, and the iPod; bad HMTL
Yes, it requires registration — get used to it, registration is going to be the trend of ’04 — but The New York Times has a number of good pieces today, including:
- an American perspective on Canada’s changing socio-cultural values;
- how one scientist’s flawed studies feed the fears about Ecstasy;
- a detailed dissection of the iPod in the paper’s latest issue of its Magazine (the theme: Design 2003).
The HTMLDog lists some “bad tags.“ Although I agree with most, the hr is unfairly maligned. The horizontal rule is, semantically-speaking, equivalent to a section break — commonly found in longer narratives — and could also be used to delineate the navigation and content on unstyled pages.
MikeyC:
I agree. Even when using CSS for layout, I don't think we should completely forsake a document's appearance sans-CSS. CSS was only ever intended to be a way of providing presentational hints and not something bolted to a document so that it can't be viewed without it. <hr> tags split-up sections nicely on handheld devices (at least going by Opera's handheld 'mode').
Dec. 2 2003 at 5:18 PM EST
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MikeyC:
I agree. Even when using CSS for layout, I don't think we should completely forsake a document's appearance sans-CSS. CSS was only ever intended to be a way of providing presentational hints and not something bolted to a document so that it can't be viewed without it. <hr> tags split-up sections nicely on handheld devices (at least going by Opera's handheld 'mode').
Dec. 2 2003 at 5:18 PM EST
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