15 Jul 2002
Mon, 15 Jul 2002
Mark Pilgrim: Using Relative Font Sizes
I read dive into mark/July 15, 2002 with anticipation today and indeed, Mark delivers. This is Mark's latest installment in his "30 days to a more accessible weblog" series. I copied and pasted the relative font sizing code that Mark gives for MT into my stylesheet, saved it, and rebuilt the entire site. I was always dissapointed by the fact that MT's default stylesheet didn't give users the option to resize text from the browser's view/text size menu. With Mark's code, mine does now. Try it, go to the menu and choose a different size than the default. Your browser should resize the all of the text in the page you are reading. Cool.
Posted at: 22:34 | permalink
Google's Great, But Not Infallible
Even with all of the PhDs stuffed inside google, they still make mistakes. For instance, take this example: I wanted to search for pages containing the words "trackback" and "kmping".
http://www.google.com/search?q=trackback+kmping
If you follow that link, google will auto-refresh to a search that includes the words "trackback" and "camping". This is a total semantic disconnect. I would imagine that the smart folks at google would understand why this would be so frustrating to users. Unfortunately, I was wrong.
http://www.google.com/search?q=trackback+camping&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=n&oq=trackback+kmping
Even if you could justify the design in which auto-refresh destroys my original typed query, it becomes very difficult to justify when you consider that I now have to retype my original query in order to make even incremental edits to it.
Posted at: 19:41 | permalink
Dave Winer: Duncan Wilcox on Google's Integrity
This is a must read from Dave Winer at Scripting News. Duncan Wilcox explains some of the details of how and why google works the way it does.
Posted at: 18:03 | permalink
