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WILMINGTON, Ill. — Mrs. Betty J. Blaha Morrill, 87, of Wilmington, Ill., passed away Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, at the Joliet Area Community Hospice Home.
Visitation and video tribute will be held on Saturday, Jan. 5, from 9 a.m. until the time of the funeral service at 11 a.m. in Freitag-Reeves & Baskerville Funeral Home, 700 East Kahler Road. Wilmington. Pastor H. Jae Lee from the First United Methodist Church in Wilmington will officiate and burial will follow in Maplewood Cemetery, New Lenox, Ill.
Preferred memorials in lieu of flowers may be made as gifts in Betty's memory to The Wilmington Community Band, c/o Wilmington Rotary, 120 South Main Street, Wilmington, Illinois 60481.
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BROOKLYN, Mich. – Fast friends in the Sprint Cup Series. Fast times at Michigan International Speedway.
There are dual storylines entering Sunday's Quicken Loans 400, and one features the duel emerging as the most compelling saga in NASCAR's premier series this season.
Brad Keselowski and Dale Earnhardt Jr. have been side by side for the lead in the final five laps of three races this season – including Earnhardt's win last Sunday at Pocono Raceway. Earnhardt's good fortune – he inherited the lead when Keselowski attempted to remove debris from his grille by drafting a lapped car but misjudged it – didn't spoil the good vibes between them.
When Earnhardt boarded his plane hours after the Pocono win, a coaster next to his seat contained a beer left by the race's runner-up.
"We are good friends, and you hate to see a guy have to lose a race in a manner like that, but I'm excited that we won," Earnhardt said. " I know that he would have definitely rather lost it to me than a few other guys out there that he's not best of buddies with, and as we race year after year, we become more competitors than we are friends, and that's just the natural cycle of it."
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But there is more than just a friendship dynamic to their relationship. Earnhardt gave Keselowski his break in NASCAR, plucking him from Nationwide Series obscurity for the JR Motorsports ride that he took to four wins in 2008. A year later, Keselowski was hired by Team Penske and made a swift ascent to its storied No. 2 Ford.
Earnhardt also gave Keselowski a place to live in a row of townhomes on his sprawling 140-acre compound north of Charlotte. When Keselowski was ready to buy a house, he stayed in the neighborhood and bought a house whose backyard abuts the woods that contain Earnhardt's wrecked car "graveyard" and "Whisky River," the replica of a Western town built by Earnhardt.
Keselowski still stops by Earnhardt's place regularly (this week, he attended the basketball recreation league that NASCAR's most popular driver hosts each Wednesday at his house), but there is a competitive element that has emerged as both have qualified for the Chase for the Sprint Cup in three consecutive seasons and are prime championship threats in 2014.
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"Dale got a lot more competitive and I did as well, and that puts a little bit more spotlight on that relationship and emphasis on the competitiveness, which I think is a good thing," Keselowski said. "We got to talking, and it seems like we've kind of swapped back and forth for leads and wins a couple times now, and if we continue to be in that spot, it might not be a bad spot for the rest of the year."
While it might not be a contentious rivalry with the cantankerous emotions that have fueled interest in NASCAR, Keselowski (Penske) and Earnhardt (Hendrick Motorsports) also are emblematic of the power struggle between two of the strongest multicar organizations in Cup.
"There is a bit of a rivalry, whether either of us wants to acknowledge it, between the two companies, and I think it's sometimes been friendly and sometimes not been friendly, but that certainly puts us both in a unique position between a friendship and a competitor," Keselowski said.
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"I guess when I've always thought of rivalries, I've always thought of them as being unfriendly. It's kind of interesting to think about it (as friends). I wouldn't mind racing Dale for a bunch of wins and championships, and that becoming a headline. That would be a lot of dang fun."
The odds are good for a rematch at Michigan, where Earnhardt has been a force since ending a 76-race winless streak two years ago. He has led the past four races on the 2-mile oval, and two poor finishes outside the top 35 last year are misleading because he blew an engine while leading in June and blew a tire while leading in August.
Keselowski has only two top 10s in nine starts (a third in 2011 and second in '12) here, but the Rochester Hills, Mich., native desperately wants to win at his hometown track, where Fords historically have excelled.
Horsepower and handling will be a necessity if either wants to set the blistering pace required Sunday. With suspension changes to the Gen 6 car creating better handling and more stability, drivers have been screaming around Michigan this weekend with relative ease.
On an ultrasmooth surface that has produced maximum grip and supersonic speeds since a 2012 repaving, Kevin Harvick set a track record with a 204.557-mph lap that marked the fastest qualifying lap in 27 years since the dawn of NASCAR's restrictor-plate era (which choked down speeds at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway). The top 20 qualifiers posted laps above 200 mph.
"That says a lot about how comfortable the cars are," Earnhardt said. "I didn't really feel like we were going that much faster than what we have ran here in the past.
It could be a false sense of security, though, if the blazing speeds cause stress turning Sunday into a race of attrition.
"It's daunting if something goes wrong," Gordon said. "This is going to be a real challenge for reliability. We are going so fast. From engines to just components on the car, tires, it's concerning. Even 400 miles, you are going to have to manage it. The cars are comfortable enough and stuck so well that is why you are not really noticing the speeds as a driver."
Another major concern about surpassing the 200-mph mark is that it's well beyond the threshold of a liftoff speed for a stock car – around 185-190 mph. Keselowski is aware of that, having gone airborne four years ago in a terrifying wreck at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
"Certainly you lose some speed as the car spins out, but we'd really prefer to not have to lose any speed before the cars turn into airplanes," Keselowski said.
But that doesn't necessarily mean he advocates a reduction in speeds.
"The speeds are up because the cars are comfortable," he said. "This track used to be notorious for being real loose into Turn 3, which is more of a flatter corner and you don't really have the banking to support you. This year, we're entering Turn 3 5-10 mph faster, and it feels probably 10-15 mph slower because of how much more secure you feel.
"We're certainly pushing the edges of every facet of the car, the track, the sport with those speeds but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I think that can be a good thing and we'll all have to see how that plays out."
Said Harvick, whose No. 4 Chevrolet enters as the favorite in starting from the pole for the third time this season: "How fast is too fast, you know what I mean? The cars will slow down a tremendous amount when we get them in (the) race and in a pack. It's going to be quite a bit hotter on Sunday. They'll slow down.
"This is one of those race tracks where you're running fast, but you really can't put it all in perspective I guess until you hit something just for the fact that it's so wide and smooth. But you don't really get that huge sensation of speed. So, we just want to win. However fast we need to go to win, we'll just call that 'good.' "
That same philosophy could apply to the hometown longing of a win for Keselowski, who regularly gets peppered by friends and family for tickets and passes for Michigan.
"That's one of those things that it doesn't really hit you until you've done it," he said. "There's deep, deep emotional ties to running there, and when you run well somewhere that you've had such emotional ties to, it just kind of really hits home in your stomach."
After one of his two wins in the Nationwide Series at MIS, Keselowski locked himself in his motor home and reflected on the race while sitting on the edge of the bed.
"I can only imagine what it would mean to me at the Cup level," he said. "I can tell you it wouldn't be like any other win."
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A video BIOS may contain x86 binary code, binary scripts and several data tables, which describe the hardware. Portable drivers need to parse the scripts and tables to drive the hardware correctly. Therefore driver developers sometimes would like to look into BIOSes from different cards.
There are several options on how to dump the BIOS:
- vbtracetool: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~stuart/vbtracetool/
- Vbtracetool can do more than just dump the BIOS, and is the recommended method. You can get it with git:
git clone git://people.freedesktop.org/~stuart/vbtracetooland then follow the QUICKSTART.
- Vbtracetool can do more than just dump the BIOS, and is the recommended method. You can get it with git:
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echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/<pciid>/rom; cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/<pciid>/rom > vbios.rom; echo 0 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/<pciid>/rom
- using a dd incantation:
dd if=/dev/mem of=vbios.rom bs=1k skip=768 count=64
- This can result in a damaged BIOS dump unfortunately, due to possible mangling when the system BIOS copies the video BIOS in shadow RAM.
- nvclock: http://www.linuxhardware.org/nvclock/
- nvagetbios: https://github.com/envytools/envytools/blob/master/nva/nvagetbios.c
- using any nouveau module after 2.6.34 (commit):
cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/vbios.rom > vbios.rom
Note: assuming that you have debugfs mounted on "/sys/kernel/debug"
On powerpc machines, the video BIOS can be retrieved from Open Firmware:
- find the file with:
grep -r "IBM VGA Compatible" /proc/device-tree/
- copy it to a convenient location, using the path obtained above. For example on a 12" powerbook this is most likely:
cp "/proc/device-tree/pci@f0000000/NVDA,Parent@10/NVDA,BMP" ~/vbios.rom
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Nielson Construction was lauded for "outstanding environmental awareness" by the Board of Oil, Gas and Mining during its Earth Day Awards presentation April 26 in Salt Lake City.
Nielson Construction was the only construction company recognized with the award. Six mining operations and an energy education foundation were also recognized with Earth Day awards.
"It is a popular misconception that oil, gas, and mining companies are enemies of the environment," said Jim Peacock, Chairman of the Utah Board of Oil, Gas and Mining. "The fact is extractive industries have matured as society has changed, and industry has embraced the notion of environmental stewardship."
Board of Oil, Gas and Mining Earth Day Awards recognize companies, organizations and individuals who exceed regulatory requirements in protecting the environment while providing essential natural resources. "Industry expends a tremendous amount of time, money and resources to protect the environment while in pursuit of natural resources," stressed Peacock. "And, when operations cease, money and resources are expended to restore the land to pre-extractive uses."
Nielson Construction is the only construction company to ever be recognized with the Earth Day award. The company was recognized for reclamation projects at Skyline and Star Point Mine in Carbon County and Des-Bee-Dove Mine in Emery County, among others.
"We were honored to be recognized for our efforts in mine reclamation. We have a long history of mine construction and reclamation and our people take our partnership with the mining industry very seriously. We strive to be the best in the business and to be recognized for our environmental efforts in reclamation, particularly in our home of Carbon and Emery County, is especially gratifying," said Wayne Nielson, company president.
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Canyon Fuel Company's Skyline Mine for providing assistance in the form of laboratory gas analysis to the Utah Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program's efforts to research an underground coal mine fire in an abandoned mine in Carbon County.
Canyon Fuel Company's SUFCO Mine for voluntarily participating in a cooperative project for Sage-Grouse habitat improvement with the Manti La-Sal National Forest.
Energy West Mining Company for outstanding final reclamation and site restoration of its Des-Bee-Dove mines in Emery County.
Plateau Mining Corporation for outstanding final reclamation and site restoration at the Star Point Mine in Carbon County.
Barrick Gold of North America, Inc. for voluntarily reclaiming an area of subsidence at a formerly mined property near Moab, and providing financial assistance to the Utah Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program to seal abandoned mines in the Mercur Mine site area and Ophir Canyon project area.
Simplot Phosphate, LLC for its continued efforts to educate the public about mining, reclamation and post-mining land use at its facility in Uintah County.
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Skip to comments.Marin's Gun Buyback Program Goes Belly Up (Marks Won't Be Paid Promised Money)
Posted on 01/17/2013 4:21:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
Promises may not be fulfilled for lots of gun owners who turned over their firearms
Marin County's gun buyback program has become a victim of its own success.
During its first-ever gun buyback event on Tuesday, the county collected 827 guns and more than 1,500 rounds of ammunition, most of it from Marin County residents, according to the district attorney's office, which organized the event.
Those turning in guns were given $200 for semi-automatic handguns or long guns, and $100 for other guns. But the $43,000 in cash that was available to those surrendering firearms was depleted within 90 minutes.
When the cash ran out, participants were given vouchers that they were told they could redeem within 30 days. Marin County District Attorney Ed Berberian said $70,000 in vouchers was distributed.
However, it now appears those with vouchers might not be paid unless the county receives more donations for its buyback program, Berberian said today.
A second gun buyback event is scheduled for Monday at the Mill Valley Police Department, but Berberian said people surrendering guns there will be told they won't receive any money. The buyback is scheduled for 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Initially, there were scheduled to be two collection sites on Monday but the county has since cancelled one that would have been in San Rafael.
Berberian said the people who received vouchers on Tuesday were told that the vouchers were not guaranteed, and many said they didn't care.
Anyone who wants to make a tax deductible donation to cover the vouchers issued in the buyback program can mail a check to the Marin County District Attorney's Office, Attention Gun Buy Back Program, Room 130, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, Calif., 94903.
A tax identification number will be issued to contributors, Berberian said.
What a great deal, a no money buyback.
Ok now this is funny.
A "buyback" where you receive no money... this take stupid to a new level.
Liberal doublespeak at its best: The government used other people's money to "buy back" firearms that never belonged to the government. After that, they defaulted on their promise to pay for the guns. Some prefer the security of a government nanny running their lives, but I prefer freedom.
Sounds like grounds for a lawsuit to me. Maybe even some criminal theft by deception charges for the States Attorney are in order.
Whatta bunch'a maroons. LOL
Pure thievery by liberal hacks
I would have nothing against these buy-backs if they checked the serial numbers of every gun to see if it was stolen, and the only guns they got were worthless junk. It saddens me to see valuable collector's items turned in for a pittance (or in this case, a worthless voucher).
What a scam but these feel-good imbeciles deserve it. Might as well promise the idiots who surrendered their firearms a stock option for a solar panel company.
Only in CA!
Hey, this is Marin. But I repeat yourself....
Will the tax deductible donation be local or federal? Wait, I thought all cities, states and the fed are going belly up for lack of taxes. More robbing Peter to pay Paul.
You can't worry forever about your mistakes. You f-ed up. You trusted us.
It's a simple structured-finance deal. Bernanke and Obama would approve.
And they want people to believe that some people turnuing in their guns that were told they would recieve no money said, "that's ok." What kind of dope would forfeit a gun and not want even the pittance they were offering? Hand in a new .45 caliber that retails for $700-$800 and you get $100, a voucher which may or may not pay out that $100 or NOTHING. Sounds like a lose, lose, lose proposition. I cannot see even 1 person OK with getting nothing in return unless a big lefty liberal inherited some old guns and their anti-gun sentiment would maybe turn them in, but I still can;t see even them not wanting at least the minimum $100 or $200 for a long gun.
ROTFL!!! Morons!
Those kind of guns (and anything close to that) are being skimmed by the police and the liberal hacks. No way are they being crushed or demolished.
Ammo buyback?
I've got a bunch of old 7.92mm Turkish army surplus Mauser rounds that are corrosive and give me misfires on every other round. It would be nice to get some cash for that. I couldn't in good conscience sell it to another gun owner.
>> People should start turning in $10 water pipe zip guns ...
Pawn shop owners love these buybacks; they turn in all their crappy guns that they bought across the counter for $5 each.
Silly people foolishly turn in grandpa's old gun ro that of another family member "before some child gets hurt..."
But they could have sold grandpa's old gun for $2500 because it is a rare xxxxxxxx.
Ignorance can be cured but stupidity is permanent.
Well, if they are still promising "no questions asked" and "no checking of serial numbers or ballistics" then I suppose this might still be a good way to dispose of that weapon that might send you to prison under other circumstances.
Lol..maybe they should auction off some of the guns they collected, to pay for the vouchers.
If you have a POS gun trade it in for the $100 buyback...take the cash and upgrade. Of this does not apply if you live in rip-off Marin County.
A lot of people believe that Marin County is lily white and rich, but it ain't so. Just across the county line from San Francisco is a "hell hole" known as Marin City, which, in my youth, was predominately black — it's always been poor, very poor. Perhaps it should be called a ghetto! Marin City was originally built as housing for Shipyard workers during WWII.
In the 1960s Marin City was "re-developed" into high density public housing but quickly became a ghetto once again! One can only imagine the gun crime emanating from that carbunkle!
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Queen Anne in Seattle: Market Stats & Homes For Sale
Queen Anne in Seattle: Market Stats & Homes For Sale
This is interesting to look at historical home sales and inventory for single family homes on the hill – You can see that inventory is low and sales are soaring in Queen Anne! Let me know if you are interested in Queen Anne Real Estate or have any questions at all.
Keep in mind these stats are on Single family homes in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood. Here is a look at average cumulative days on market and also the sales price to list price percentage. Queen Anne moves around a bit on this number compared to neighborhoods like Magnolia, but overall sales are strong.
This chart is one of my favorites which shows months of inventory in Queen Anne. This is based on how many Queen Anne homes are for sale in the MLS.
So what is for sale in Queen Anne? Here is a great interactive map so that you can find your Queen Anne home or if you are just curious about prices in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood.
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I would say IE, but that' s not right, if it weren' t for IE coding would be so simple that everybody could do it and we all would have a lot less work. Think about it. What we got here is a pure love/hate relation.
I really dislike flash website with sound. As I listen music most of the time while I'm seing websites, I hate flash animation with sound. Sometimes there is a button to turn off the sound and it's OK, but when there is no way to stop the music, I quit the website. Oh, of course this is the same for flash ads with sound !
All you need is to hate:
- MSN search that indexes pages absolutely unlogicaly.
- Page registrations, that asks your street address and keeps your number of credit card for later use.
- SEO companies that fools clients.
- Graphic web designers who think that html coders are stupid slaves.
- W3C banners on non-valid pages.
- W3C banners.
- Smileys.
- CSS hacks.
- Comments before DOCTYPE.
- Padding.
There are three which really get my goat…
1. Graphic designers who suddenly decide they are 'web designers', and create a "website" which is nothing but a stack of .jpgs with no actual content whatsoever. Accessibility? Who cares? It looks pretty….
2. People who insist that tables are the answer to everything, and absolutely refuse to use CSS (or DTDs) because they 'can't centre things like you can with tables' (read 'can't be bothered finding out how').
3. Browser incompatibilities and the evil that is IE. No need to say more.
Nice to read that these things which make me furious make most other people just as irritated!
There are millions of sky channels on my television, doesn't mean i'm going to go and buy a DV Camera and record my own brand of crap. So why do amateurs feel the need to be web designers.
Don't get me started on the whole table v css layout debate, if I had an AK-47, that would end the argument right there, or you can just accept that there is no argument.
1. The all Flash singing & dancing website: completely opposed to the fundamental nature of the web, therefore obsolete by default.
2. The crudeness of HTML - CSS: I keep getting flashbacks to 1988 when I learned to set type on a Laser Photo Typesetting System.
3. Total lack of typographic control in HTML - CSS: don't even get me started on this one.
4. Browser wars / browser incompatiblities.
Flame wars suck.
There have been instances where whole communities have been torn apart because of flame wars.
"Research shows":http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70179-0.html?tw=wn_index_2 that we're crap at understanding important nuances of communication.
It's clear that smilies are incapable of this job.
Surely there's someway of generating the necessary emotional feedback?
Internet Explorer 6 (For holding back the web)
Internet Explorer 7 (For promising to hold back the web for the next five years)
Mr. Aitken's comments are a breath of fresh air! While I appreciate much of what (now) falls under the umbrella of "Web 2.0", the term bothers me. The internet is a living, breathing animal; not a quantifiable machine. One cannot label a site or an application as 1.0 or 2.0. There is no black and white. There are trends but there are no versions!
*Frederikke Jensen*: _"I just hate when the text and menus keep expanding to the right when you are on a large monitor—the text is so hard to read."_
I haven't tried it but maybe a user stylesheet could set the html/body width to a smaller size for you. Or just reduce the width of the browser window. Install a program like Sizer ( "www.brianapps.net":http://www.brianapps.net ) to give you a set window size and position.
*Michelle O'Reilly*: _"Clicking on a link which is actually a link to a PDF file—and I have not been warned or told anywhere on the page!"_
I try to show an icon for the main file types after each link on our work website. But on plain links, all you have to do is hover over them and the address appears at the bottom in the browser. (In Opera, make sure the status toolbar is turned on.) So you will know if the link is a PDF or not. Simple!
Things I dislike:
* lists not marked up as lists. A lot of the text in this ALA article falls into this category!
* spelingk mistikes and tyypos.
* language errors. The one that gets me foaming at the mouth is when people mix up "lose" and "loose". I see it all the time! It's not as if the words even sound the same. I've even seen it in magazines. I'm thinking now that the English language has been permanently changed. For the worse.
* browser inconsistencies. Musicians don't have to remix their songs to work with multiple versions of music playing devices. Nor do painters have to repaint their pictures to fit different frame sizes. I guess it's the price we pay for the dynamic nature of the web.
* Microsoft's browsers
* Netscape's browsers
* Endless browser bugs
* Flash sites where you press the back button and lose all the steps you just took to get to a piece of information.
* Poor typography on the web.
* Poor layout possibilities with current HTML and CSS. It's a nightmare to code a decent, yet simple, multi-column layout, unlike in a desktop graphic design program.
"The problem with the web, as it is today, is not only that it's too much of a democracy, but that it's a very corrupted one. There are a very small number of leaders, who represent the so-called majority of the web citizens. But those are not the citizens who consume the web, but the citizens who make it. In other words, you will be led by the search engines, according to the preferences of website owners, not according to the preferences of website users like you!"
You can read more here "There's something very wrong with today's internet":http://www.comagz.com/webmagazine/story/theres_something_very_wrong_with_todays_inte
Mostly everything has been said right now, but I really hate another thing: standard UTF-8 url encoding.
Try passing some standard iso 5589-1 text through it in an AJAX context (try french, with é's, ç's and ê's); even multipart can't do it right. You just have to hack your way through it…(good 'ol UTF8-decode)
It would be so gracious, nice latin-1 url's, no & frustrations anymore… what a nice web it would be (besides everything else).
* Microsoft, for IE6 (being an utter and unmitigated abomination), IE7 (for being much too little, much too late) and Frontpage (produces some of the ugliest sites on the web)
* Cyber-squatters, who register every possible domain out there - making it difficult for legitimate web authors, and ruining the auto-suffix features of Opera and Lynx
* Web deezyners who use Flash for no good reason, with no backup
* Illiterate web authors who can't write coherent English (or whatever their native language is)
* People who build CMS with non-human-parseable URLs and no visible site structure
* People who build inaccessible sites that only work with their version of IE and all the latest plug-ins
* Link farms, especially those that appear in Google above genuine websites
There are sooooo many things wrong with the web. Cross browser compatibility issues has to be at the top of my list though. I hate spending a ton of time working on a website just to have to go back and rewrite portions of the CSS for another browser. It almost makes me want to go back to tables, but no, CSS is the language that keeps on giving.
I also hate the use of buzzwords. They're fine if you mentiont hem once in a while, but when an article about a barney fan club site uses the term "web 2.0" 20 times it just seems plain ridiculous.
"[...] my design will probably still have issues with Opera or IE5.x for Mac for those 8 people out there still using it."?
First of all, I'm sick and tired of people addressing the Opera browser as a browser full of bugs, a browser that's difficult to design for. I hate that more than anything. It's false. It's wrong. It's a lie!
Secondly, I hate Firefox. No, as a matter of fact, I hate Firefox's users. All of them. All of the "Firefox is so fast and so standards compliant and so secure and so great."? Rant, rant, lie, rant. Firefox isn't a great browser, it's a a great marketing campaign.
Lastly, but not least, I hate the fact that instead of spending the day of love with my girlfriend, as it should be, I'm stuck here whining about Opera, Firefox, hate and love. I hate it!
* "web designers" that are stuck in the past and refuse to learn CSS for layout (Steve I'm looking at you ;) )
* spam/adverts/etc - adblock in Firefox has curbed most of the adverts though, it's the most useful plugin ever
* having to hack sites for different browsers
* the fact that so many people believe everything they read on the web instead of going further and researching more about a subject
People continually going on about how this and that is wrong with the web.
Are you sure you really hate IE7 or AJAX already or is it because "experts" in the field have told you that you should.
Hmm.. I just set up a web server with linux, lighttpd, mysql, pgsql, and serveral server-side languages. Total out of pocket cost to MS $0.00.
Why don't we all just stop supporting MSIE? People keep using this trashy antique browser because things are bodged to work in it. Perhaps we should just develop for Firefox and let all the other browsers catch up when they realise that everyone is moving to Firefox.
Why on earth does Safari exist? What a terrible pain! Bin it and use Firefox then at least that's one less browser we have to worry about. Same for Konqueror - nice try, but let's face it, pants compared to Firefox. Bin Konqueror too!
As for the bloke on the main page who wrote about .Net being great, oh dear god what has that man been taking? He might as well say "All my sites look great in MSIE running on Windows!" and leave it at that. The day Microsoft make something that adheres to open standards, I'll show my ass in Burton's window!
Opera, although now free, is still waaaay behind Firefox. They seriously need to pull their finger out and sort all the layout glitches, CSS problems and other painful traits their browser currently has.
Oh, and just one more thing…
Did I say that already? Well, it's such an important point I thought it needed to be stated twice. How many of your clients have you converted to Firefox today? None? You're in the wrong job mate. Show them the light and find out how refreshing it is to get projects finished on time and on budget.
Most people on this discussion say they hate IE6.. I do too…IE7 will solve some problems and simply create more…I find myself quite frustrated with educating people about the importance of clean CSS based designs with a sense of fluidity to them…I detest table based layouts…and finally I simply cannot stand a "designer" who lacks openness when it comes to web site design and creation…The web is for people who belong to a new age and people with stuck up ideas, like it has always been with the computer sciences, make it harder for others by not adopting newer standards by staying rooted to the older methods of doing things
Passing a W3C validation and writing good code are two completely different practices. Just because ASP.NET can spit-out "valid" XHTML, doesn't mean the layout isn't riddled with nested tables and confusing class/ID assignments. The reason the suite is ignored by "standards gurus" is because those same gurus oppose almost any program-generated markup, because it is usually some of the worst markup on the web—validation or not.
Using Apache, PHP/Perl, mySQL, and perhaps a dash of Javascript you could do ANYTHING you'd ever be able to do using any of the Microsoft products you listed (had to resist an urge to put the cliche dollar-sign in the company name). You might have to get your hands dirty with the markup, but you could've saved yourself ~$400.
(Viva la [g]Vim!)
Regarding Ian Corey's entry: "The best deals on tsunami victims"? has to be the darkest (unintentional) joke I have heard in quite a while, and it is revealing of some unfortunate traits of this medium. Good catch.
...and tables nested 7 deep. **weep**
Every hour I spend understanding and perfecting my use of CSS, for example, is an hour I don't spend learning PHP. And no sooner do I learn enough PHP to impress my boss, than there's a new kid on the block (Ruby on Rails, I'm looking your way) that offers a better way. I know what I'm going to do when I retire!
I definitely can't stand browser/technology zealots that rant about anything that's not like the browser/technology they use.
I aim specifically to Opera/Firefox zealots:
* Opera zealots not assuming they have a buggy browser and ranting about FF instead of ranting about IE.
* FF zealots for thinking they are the *only* alternative to IE and all should switch to FF instead of promoting users to use _anything_ but IE
Then, there's the PHP zealots, that would simply say anything in Perl is cryptic and useless, and say RoR is the n00bie platform instead of assuming the power it has and trying to compete (say, CakePHP for example).
Let's just be more tolerant and don't fight between the well developed and updated platforms, let's just fight against those who try to keep us stuck in 1998.
I hate spotty teenagers on chat forums with their silly avatars. When some bit of software has yet another bug and you try to use Google to find some sort of solution, you always hit on chat forums populated by teenagers filling pages and pages with rubbish. I also hate "The page you are trying to view contains POSTDATA"¦"?. I also hate it when your website works in (what you think is) every conceivable browser and somebody asks, "did you try it in IE/Mac?"? I also hate the 256-colour web palette that some people still go on about. (What century do you live in, mate?)
I hate reminding firefox groupies that Netscape 2 thru 4 was the first truly widespread browser, how do you think spyware got it's start? Now hackers are being educated by lamebrains that write and comment here to use the dom which is immensely hypocritical to allow validation, yet parse crappy code unwittingly to the end user, the dom also allows more ways to entrap cpu cycles while the user wonders what's going on. oh forget it!
Here is my short list of things I hate on the web:
1) Page breaks in articles. I've yet to hear a valid explanation for this. Total waste of time (and bandwidth).
2) Websites that don't work in Safari. WTF?
3) Poor site navigation. It still exists in droves.
4) Gratuitous Flash. Ever band site I've ever been to, I'm looking in your direction.
5) The "Web 2.0" buzz phrase. Shut up, already.
I hate the following:
# Javascript menus.
# AJAX—It's not revolutionizing anything. They tried it like 10 years ago. It failed. It still fails. There are so very few instances where it's useful.
# Design over standards.
# Large static sites with inconsistent markup and the clients that insist you maintain them the way they are.
# _"Web designers"_—If you don't know what markup or CSS is, you're not designing for the web.
# _"Web 2.0"_—eat me.
What are you talking about? On which search engine do you get "Best deals on Tsunami Victims?" I don't see it on either Yahoo! or Google.
I hate that Firefox, for all its other goodness, can't render ♥ whether it's written as "&9829;" or "♥". Not even unicode escapes will take care of it. I guess it's the XUL one-size fits all platforms (not!) reason that it's not accessing OS X's built-in use of unicode.
To note: putting the heart in something that is styled with monospaced fonts seems to work (but why should I work-around?).
PS to that above: There's no little heart symbol showing up in FF on the Mac for these articles. Fine with _every_ other browser-platform combo in which I've looked.
PPS to that above: It doesn't work in any gecko-based browser. Here's the extra bit of oddity: add "monospace" to the last font declaration in ALA's /css/base.css file (replacing "sans-serif") and it works. Wha?
In today's world of tabbed browsing, there's a feature that HTML _doesn't_ provide that really annoys me. I wish that using <target="new"> or <rel="external"> would open in new tabs first if they're enabled, _then_ open the link in a new window. Theoretically, it would degrade kindly. That would make me happy—as a tabbed browsing junkie, nothing annoys me more than clicking on a link that opens in a new window.
* I hate poorly-designed forms!
There are enough tutorials and articles on the web now explaining what makes a form good or bad, so I won't list everything here. Accessibility issues aside, there is no reason why every single company absolutely *needs* to know my phone number, where I live, what I do, what my mother's maiden name was, etc. The amount of information demanded of users becomes more than the amount of content that is being denied to them in the first place.
* I hate Internet Explorer.
IE _could_ be the most amazing browser in all existance. Microsoft has shown their commitment to web standards with such products as Visual Sudio's Visual Web Developer. Yet we, as web developers, are expect to not only put up with but actually _applaud_ the next version 7.0, which fixes *bugs* we have been fighting with for the last 5 years? It's just gross.
* I hate the lack of documentation Opera has.
Maybe I've just haven't found it yet, but I can't seem to find any decent web-dev documentation about Opera. Although I can't say I would ever use Opera as my default browser, I _like_ what the company is trying to do.
* I hate the terms "AJAX" and "Web 2.0"
I hate how the terms imply segregation of technology, and how that implication has segregated the web community.
* I hate rant-based blogs where nothing is ever good enough.
You know these people - the ones that rant about CSS layouts being just as syntactically ill-formed as table ones. Some of these people complain about those who complain about IE. Some just complain about those who complain about them. Stop ranting about inane things we can't change and do something productive!
* I hate the lack of a newbie resource.
Waaaaay back in the day there was Webmonkey, where newbies could go and learn many things about making ugly-geocities-esque web pages. It was good because at the time that was what the web was. But now, _some_ of us know better because we're doing better compared to what we were doing years ago. I don't see a lot of anyone teaching the basics in a way that prepares people for (what should be) their future - "standards based" design. Why reinvent the wheel with every developer, making them go through the same hoops we did?
* I hate over-used layouts.
I'm guilty of this as much as the next person. Imitation is the highest form of flattery, after all. The CSS Zen Garden is a fantastic site - each entry's visual style is different from the last. Yet, out of however many hundred have been submitted, there are only about four or five different layouts. Most are single-column, a few double-column, and some are one big horizontal row. The visual styles are superb and show great creativity - can we not be as creative when it comes to placing and positioning content?
* I hate the lack of XPath-based functions in the DOM.
At first all I wanted was _getElementsByClassName_. Then I wanted a built in _CSSQuery_. But after discovering XPath, lets just go all the way and get that in there.
What I hate about the web is not what we've lost, but what we _haven't_ lost. I hate that we haven't lost IE, despite the best efforts of many browser makers. I hate that people still make their links open in a new window. I hate complex dynamic URLs. I hate that people still force the "precision" cursor when you hover over their links. I hate the cybersquatters who just have domains without ever having any plans on doing something with them. I hate compulsory website registration. I hate the www. prefix. I hate that people are even today, in the year 2006, making sites with presentational tables, or indeed presentation markup at all. I hate all the stupid, immature people who can't find anything better to do with their time than to troll. And I really hate the people who can't be bothered to—if they're not going to learn proper English—at least run what they write through a spell-checker. I hate comment and referrer spam. Hell, I hate spam of all kinds. Spammers are some of the most despicable people on the planet.
But most of all, I think I just hate IE. Even IE7, with which I work on a regular basis. I know, I know, even the proprietors of this site say "Don't be hatin' on IE7 just yet," but the simple fact of the matter is that it's not going to be better. It's going to be just as "good enough" as they can get away with. We're still going to have to wrestle with IE being the browser that rides the short bus, holding back the web. I hate the fact that I just won't be able to make a website without thinking about "oh, but will this work in IE?" IE just makes me angry. So… very… angry…
I have to disagree with "CoMagz" (comment 11). It seems to me that the writer of that article has somehow missed a whole lot of what's out there on the Web these days. I think that his misunderstanding of the Web can be summed up with his own sentence: "The web is totally different from any other industry I can think of." The Web isn't an industry, though. Sure, there is industry built up around the Web, but it itself is not an industry. It's not something that exists to make money; that's just one of the many things that does happen on the Web. The problem is that the Web is being run by the webmasters and not the users? Hardly! If it actually were being run by the webmasters, then nobody would be using IE! Either way, I just disagree with him.
Oh, and I hate ALA! ... wait, no, that's not right, I love ALA! :)
It's been said before, but laying out pages with HTML/CSS is so very, very complicated and needlessly so.
More times than I care to admit I have just dumped out a site with a HTML table layout because I don't have the time or patience for the hours of trial and error required for an appropriate CSS layout that works in the majority of browsers.
Tables are still so widely used because they work and work quickly.
yes, what Adrian says is true for a lot of guys. Some needs are very dificult to reach only with divs an css (like two blocks with the same height). Tables are a real option, but i try to use them the minumum.
*Dan Boland*: _"Page breaks in articles. I've yet to hear a valid explanation for this. Total waste of time (and bandwidth)."_
I take the opposite view. There's nothing worse than waiting for an enormous one-page document to fully load. HTML specs come to mind. Especially when all I want to read is a fraction of the page. Why waste bandwidth by forcing me to load the whole document? Magazines don't come on a continuous single sheet of paper. People can only take in so much at a time. Page breaks are a natural solution.
I agree with the person who said myspace.com is their biggest hatred of the web. God, it's so bad when you compare it to something like flickr and it could be so good. So REALLY REALY good. It's badly designed usability-wise, it's interface is gruesome and it's clunky/loads slow/very bad at image handling.
It's such a popular site and such a great idea that is let down by a complete lack of thought when it comes to the account holder and user…
"Web Kaizen specialist" - this is what I hate about the web, stupid job titles.
bq. Why don't we all just stop supporting MSIE? People keep using this trashy antique browser because things are bodged to work in it. Perhaps we should just develop for Firefox and let all the other browsers catch up when they realise that everyone is moving to Firefox.
The problem I have, I don't know about you, is that I haven't yet managed to design a killer website that ordinary surfing plebs are so desperate to use to full effect that they will download a new browser for it. If they can't use my website, they'll go elsewhere, and take their money elsewhere.
And sadly, there will be no shortage of people peddling IE-only websites to those clients who care more about cash than quality (and who can blame them!) - so all that happens is that the standardistas are left out in the cold with no work.
I read through the Valentine's Massacre, and I didn't see any comments regarding e-Mail portability.
One thing that I hate about e-Mail nowadays is that it is not portable… or transferrable… I cannot understand why Postal Service (at least in the US) offers free forwarding of all your mail for one year after you moved, if you lived in California, but moved to Maine, no matter what, you'll still get mail sent to California at your new address in Maine.
You just can't do that… or please, if anyone knows how to… let me know, and I'll shut up!
I know… Yahoo! and Hotmail can do it if you pay X amount of dollars… But that's about it…
I am glad that mr. Google is breaking such trend by GIVING AWAY pop and forwarding services. So if you decide to change your e-Mail address, you don't have to have a comprehensive list of contacts, so if one of your friends that you haven't heard from in a while, can still send you a message and it will still make it to your new e-Mail inbox.
Now, all they need is IMAP. But that's another topic. =)
The big 5 recurring areas for me, in no particulat order:
1) Browser compatibility. Something almost universally despised with no easy solution. As a side note, sure, we can stop supporting pages for IE. But the unfortunate reality is: a] Older versions of IE will be in use for a long time and b] a large number of users simply don't care what browser they use. Meaning they don't want to download a different browser, and just fire up the one that shipped with the OS.
2) CSS compatibility. Related to 1, but it makes me crazy that CSS has so much potential - even aside from the power it already makes available - but often ends up requiring a few dozen hacks to support different browsers. Using a lot of hacks gives my striving for lean, clean code the heebie jeebies.
3) ASP.NET. That may change, but so far my encoutners with it have left me tired and annoyed. Perhaps I need more time with it. But I have to agree PHP, and even ASP, seem much easier to work with.
4) Frontpage. With a passion I hate this software and the "websites" it produces. Particularly making changes to an existing site for a new client, to discover mountains of FP junk code I have to tiptoe through, lest you bump the wrong webbot and send the page into spastic error filled fits, searching and searching for the area I need to work on.
5) People who sit on domain names. Not just squatters wringing a buck from a site name, but people who have them…and never use them. For years. Maybe domain names need a system similar to that for real estate. If it sits neglected and empty for too long, someone needs to step in. Use it or lose it. Or not. I don't know. Look, it's frustrating, ok? I've venting here.
*Chris Hester*: _"I take the opposite view. There's nothing worse than waiting for an enormous one-page document to fully load. HTML specs come to mind. Especially when all I want to read is a fraction of the page. Why waste bandwidth by forcing me to load the whole document? Magazines don't come on a continuous single sheet of paper. People can only take in so much at a time. Page breaks are a natural solution."_
Thanks for the response, it's nice to hear other people's perspective on this.
It's funny you mention the waste of bandwidth, because I think splitting an article into multiple pages is an even bigger waste. The host server is sending the same overhead once per page, whereas sending an entire article as one page only sends everything… once.
I've been told that the main reason this happens is advertising—one ad per page. But what's preventing sites from simply putting all of the ads throughout the length of the article?
As far as what the user wants, you want page breaks. I don't. And most sites accommodate both of us by having "single-page view" links to click. But even that leads to problems; there have been several occasions when I click the single-view link and get a 404. Why introduce the possibility of errors when you don't have to?
And why should I be penalized for wanting all of the information at once? Every page that has to load unnecessarily is a waste of time, considering I've already invested to reading the article.
And I guess the crux of my argument against page breaks is this—you mention that magazines don't come in one long page. That's true, but the web is an entirely different medium. The web doesn't have vertical limitations the way every other medium has. Now that doesn't mean that I want to read _The Shining_ all on one page, but for a three page article, give me a break!
There are idiots who think they know VBscript but can not write HTML or CSS. What is this world coming to?
I truly despise some of the people who say that they are sick of crappy web sites and amateur designers but when you visit their website, it looks like a 10 yr old designed it.
I'm an experienced designer, developer and artist and have been doing this for almost 10 yrs now. I have come to realize, there are 2 types of designers/developers: editorial critics and inspirational types.
Editorial types tend to degrade everything that is wrong (and sometimes not but is based on their "infinite" expertise) while Inspirational types, offer objective criticism and support in an attempt to solidfy the online community of designers, developers and code "artists."
Other than that: IE SUCKS BALLZ and either needs to step up or step out. Your game, Bill.
About 2 years ago, the CSS consortium was going full-steam with a way to include specific fonts into stylesheets. then they did an about-face and stopped supporting this process. In the meantime - all websites have to be built with horrid typefaces like arial, times. If you're lucky a PC user may have a Verdana or Helvetica.
I mean, it's 2006, and i'm still having to decide on serif or sans for an html-based website layout.
Web and online design will always be considered a red-headed step-child of design as long as the fonts are held back.
p.s. if anyone knows a way of including fonts, please share!
Todd: You can try http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/ for headings and small sections.
Things I hate: Every single website that doesn't validate to it's Doctype, especially the sites that proudly advertise the fact they are valid xhtml/css and don't bother to ensure they actually are.
*Dan Boland* - I'm not sure I understand your argument against bandwidth. If I read the first page of an article, then decide it's not for me, doesn't this use less bandwidth than downloading the entire thing? What if it is the equivalent of 10 pages long?
The bugbear is when the article contains illustrations. I'm having to load all of these in one go. But I think we're talking about two different types of thing here. You - an interesting article. Me - an HTML spec. (Should be the same thing. :-) ) Now a while ago I wanted to check something in a draft produced by the WHATWG. I was appalled by the sheer length of the page, when all I wanted was a tiny fraction of the text.
Consider people are still on 56K as well. Even on broadband, I was waiting maybe up to a minute for the damn page to finish loading. Why not give the user content in sections instead? It makes so much more sense to me. Don't load content I don't want to read!
Now going back a few years, I was on 56K myself, and came across a personal site where the user had dumped _everything_ on one page. The problem was, that included masses of images and photographs. What a pain to load! I felt then there was no need for this. The page should have been cut up into separate pages.
*todd musgrove*: _"Web and online design will always be considered a red-headed step-child of design as long as the fonts are held back."_
I hear ya on the fonts thing. Microsoft had a great working demo years back that allowed any font, but no-one expanded on it. But Todd, please don't hate on the red-heads!
We've already gone through 2.0 with server side scripting. More Accurately the term would be Web 2.1 or Web 3.0 using the client/server analogy for technologies behind webpage presentation.
1.1 HTML/CGI/Javascript
2.0 HTML/Javascript/Server Side Scripting
2.1 HTML/Javascript/CSS/Server Side Scripting
3.0 Server Side Scripting/DHTML (the web is here)
I'm sure this has been said before, but it can't be said enough. Others would want to break it out further (whaa, you forgot XHTML… I think not). I feel these are the core stages.
We've already gone through 2.0 with server side scripting. More Accurately the term would be Web 2.1 or Web 3.0 using the client/server analogy for technologies behind webpage presentation.
1.1 HTML/CGI/Javascript
2.0 HTML/Javascript/Server Side Scripting
2.1 HTML/Javascript/CSS/Server Side Scripting
3.0 Server Side Scripting/DHTML (the web is here)
I'm sure this has been said before, but it can't be said enough. Others would want to break it out further (whaa, you forgot XHTML"¦ I think not). I feel these are the core stages.
What I hate is that people use the anonymity of the web to abuse peoples comments or waffle on when most people probably couldn't care less about their drivel. For example I once posted a question on a site about a coding issue using the standards-strict dtd only to get the reply:
"Why are you using strict you idiot. You should be using transitional. Everybody knows that!(more waffle followed)"
Anonymity can free people from so many inhabitions and allow them to express feelings in ways they never felt possible.
But it also allows people to give in too easily to the darker sides of human nature. And that I don't like.
But we take the good with the bad.
I hate that search engines still do not manage to index pages using frames in a good way.
I'm _really_ getting tired of the practice of "Search Engine Optimization". The more I work at a company that does nothing but use outdated keyword spamming tactics to appease *The Mighty Google*, the more I notice other companies stuck in similar ruts. Would you people like to know how to optimize your site?
Write good content.
Affiliate yourself with sites that share similar interests or promote your (site | company)'s ideal. If it just so happens that your kind of site is more popular on Yahoo than Google, so be it. Market towards that instead of worrying about Big Homey-G and stop filling the internet with <h1>. It's about time companies started using more s.
...the way web design is taught, when it is taught, in higher education institutions. I've had to teach myself everything I know because the most advanced web course offered at my university involves Frontpage.
When I first heard the term web2.0 I thought it will be something totally unique something more dramatic rather than just AJAX and others. I thought of Minority report where people browse the internet using their hands.
The first thing I learned about web2.0 is that it doesnot have a proper definition yet then why is it called web 2.0. From what I have understood its just same old things with a new cover. So when can we expect to see the real web 2.0 is still unanswered!
To me Web 2.0 is more of an ethos. It's about getting it right, drawing a line in the sand and saying "It ends here!". It's about the proper use of structured semantic mark-up, the separation of content, structure, presentation and behaviour. Designing, not simply prettifying, pages that degrade nicely using techniques that offer accessible and usable interfaces. Clever use of interaction models to give the user the best possible web experience.
Some things will be brand new or at least unobtainable ideas finally made realizable. Others will be the same old stuff done better. For the past 10+ years the industry has been stumbling along but now things are getting better. For me anyway, after stripping away all the hype, Web 2.0 is about a new start, a chance to turn over a new leaf and build the web anew.
dark side of the web: spam, malware, spyware ,adware noware. link farms and other dark SEO deeds.
wishlist 1: true UTF-8 support, let the sign on the keyboard's key show thru, be it croatian, ukrainian, chinese or martian.
wishlist 2: height:expand
wishlist 3: more variety and openmindedness in the web designers and developers' community. to many sheep following, instead of proposing new ways.
wishlist 4: online forums used to be a good source for help and fun. it seems that nowadays everybody asks question, nobody takes the time to reply. LOOK BEYOND YOURSELF !
all the best,
Spammers. Guestbook spammers. Comment spammers. The "table layouts are evil" fanatics. Flash. Java. IE. Snobby professional web designers who sneer at the efforts of lesser mortals.
if you have set up a personal web site you're correct. If you're speaking about a business web site, maybe you forgot to pay for MySql License as you should (and that's not so cheap).
Michael, I've seen a lot of really horrible Apache/MYSQL/Php sites full of tables and absolutely non-standard markup (the same that can happen for IIS/SQL Server/ASp.NET).
What I want to say is that you can (and should) produce standards compliant markup independently from the platform/tools you use. No set of tools can magically make you a "web star".
What I really hate is this aprioristic judgement: if you write in ASP.NET/C# probably you're an idiot, if you write a lot of rubbish in Php/MySQL it doesn't matter, "YOU ARE A GURU".
Reading through this long list of rants (Including the article itself.) is very depressing. I've been a web technician since Spring of 1997 and I think a lot of people have forgotten how bad things were back then.
Look, it's a heterogeneous computing environment and, interoperability is hard but, if you keep your head, it's possible.
If you don't push the envelope and don't bother to give any style to versions of IE earlier than 6, if you don't need PNG transparency, CSS has made things *vastly* better. Aside from one or two hiding tricks, you can pretty much use the same stylesheet for most browsers from version 6 onwards. If you keep things pretty bland, that really *is* progress.
But there is still a fraction of people out there that think CSS has somehow magically rendered the Web a safe place for concepts that really only work in the design of printed, hardcopy media. This just isn't true.
CSS gives you, the designer, only a limited degree of control over how something is rendered. This control is staggeringly simpleminded in comparision to the kind of control Adobe PhotoShop or professional, industrial-grade publishing software gives you.
You can hand out a printed media stylesheet that isn't too horrible. You can make the world a little safer for mobile phones with a handheld stylesheet. You can build a pretty nice presentation with a projection media stylesheet. You can make your page render pretty much the same on most browsers after IE6, if you keep it simple.
The Web is not print. It's either hacks like sFIR or the Web safe fonts. Just accept it.
It seems to be realistic to use 30% of the budget in webdesign to hacks and fixes to get the pages OK. Thats too much compared to print and TV. If you listen to the big bosses in marketing and content they think like that and concludes that the web matures as a medium, but the deliveryplatform is beta quality. I agree. I think the W3 and Microsoft are still not working good enough together. MS sayes to bee customer driven. How can they not get the signals from all the people bying websites that their bad browsers makes our pages bad OR more expensive !
I don't think I've seen anyone mention this yet…
Links that have no real
URLin their
HREFattribute, and break the fundamental underpinnings of the web.
Obviously bad for accessibility, and _always_ a problem if you have script disabled, or don't have a script enabled browser.
It's still bad in that respect but these days the problem affects more people, even if they have modern common multimedia browsers on high powered desktop computers. For just a few examples:
* people using handheld devices with less power or lower support for scripts;
* people who like to see where a link would take them (by looking at the status bar with their mouse over the link);
* people who want to open a link in a new tab;
* people who want to copy the link address for sending to other people or just to bookmark it!
One prime offender that I use is "MSN Hotmailâ"¢". Maybe they have the right to use convoluted methods and code to do reletavly simple things like email, but that doesn't mean they should just make it all work their way and sod the individual people that actually have to use it.
*It's not like there's no alternative!*
Every link should always have a valid standard
HREF, event handlers can overide this if you must use your scripts and when done properly will not get in the way of the indivudual users' wishes like middle-click for new tab in Firefox.
If there's no non-script alternative content then the
hrefcan send the user to a page that simply says a browser supporting script is required!
I think there was an article on ALA about this… yeah here we go ""Accessible Pop-up Links":http://www.alistapart.com/articles/popuplinks".
I hate standards and the slew of rubish that people spout about the so called goodness of them. Place all the tacky compliance gifs and technocratic rubish you want, the 95% of people who use the net DON'T CARE. We are become slaves to the search engine, and creativity is in steep decline.
I hate css, recently minted developers are digg'ing this stuff as if moses himself chairs the w3c. Where have we moved from 2000? - we can now implement media styles and throw out the spacer gifs. BIG DEAL. News Flash: Absolute positioning has been around for years.
We are taking a media (yes thats right a MEDIA) not a giant technical resource as some would like the net to go back to circa arpanet, not a semantic machine readable database, a media to enable human communication, and taking the soul right out.
When skynet is born of the remains of google, I will blame all of YOU.
Things I hate about the interweb
* Design over standards
* Standards over design
* People missing the point of CSS, W3C, Standards e.t.c resulting in pages with hundreds of classes and hundreds of div's for no real reason. You might as well of stuck with your tables.
* Popups
* Googles targeted ads, although generally unobtrusive, are often irrelevant and link to terrible websites. Quite often I get one saying "Guitar playing Suck? - Learning to master guitar in 60 minutes". I dont think so pal.
* Although it has been mentioned 342342 times, browser rendering incosistencies is a real pain.
One thing I've grown to hate lately is having to defend the practice of Search engine Optimization from people that don't understand that SEO isn't synonymous with keyword spamming, or a multitude of other unethical black hat SEO abuses.
There are many companies out there these days using shady techniques in an effort to bolster the pagerank of their clients' sites, resulting in SEO turning into a dirty word for some.
White hat SEO, a term that others might dismiss as just another buzzword, encompasses everything from adhering to web standards/validation, semantic markup and accessibility, to well researched content.
Those that *do* consider SEO an empty buzzword, should remember that on top of adhering to standards compliant authoring practices, white hat SEO involves many other ethical practices that produce higher ranking for functional, trusted content rich sites. Definitely a step in the right direction.
I hate all so-called standard "gurus". I can design a site with valid HTML 4.01 & CSS using tables that is consistent across all browsers far faster than you can hack up some valid XHTML & CSS site that might be consistent. Don't get me wrong, XHTML & CSS are nice but they make me feel extremely limited and often frustrated. The browser companies need to get it together.
Web designers who hate Flash yet don't know the first thing about it other than you need a pluggin to view it. Flash can be a great addition/accent to an HTML based site. It can also create the most amazing Web-sites and applications to grace the internet when used properly and intelligently. Flash can engage your audience in ways that HTML,XHTML, and CSS never will be able to.
No support for transparent .pngs. It's been on the scene since around 1995. Can we get some $%#@#! support?
Pop-ups. Who doesn't hate pop-ups?
When a link is actually a link to a pdf and doesn't tell me and also doesn't open in a new window. I absolutely hate that.
What I can't stand is the rampant self-feeding, inward-looking, dare-I-say-it plagiarism that creates transitory schools of design thought pervading the net until the next site redesign? How many sites during 2004 did you see that used white-on-white, slight gradiented lozenges, and another, almost imperceptible top-of-page blue-grey gradient? Not to mention the little Web 2.0 style 'beta' starburst?
Either ponce around with self-aggrandising cyberpunk web-designer sneer, or have the humility that goes with being unoriginal. You can't have both.
I despise pages and "ads that make sounds":http://www.affiliate-facts.com/resources/ivg.htm or talk without any request or warning. Remember those annoying "Vonage ads":"http://www.oddcast.com/richmedia/cases/vonage.html" ? I sometimes achieve a zen-like state of mind and concentration when randomly surfing the web, only to be shattered by some random, unexpected, unsolicited noise.
it's not just IE and IE7
i also hate why msn messenger only opens page in IE and why XHTML 1.0 rendering of ASP.NET still won't validate.
I dislike flash websites, esp. complete flash based sites. And those with sounds that blast my speakers when i enter a site.
I would love to see sites that are tableless although i had did tabled sites before.
I would also be happy if IE and FF could pass the acid2 test.
The interweb was a valuable resource for research and discussion now its a glue ball of paid for links and SEO, any google search brings back an ebay listing. Who is selling 'Physics' on ebay and how did they come to own it ?
The use of JavaScript for hyperlinks! It annoys me when I hit my middle mouse button on a link, only to find that the new tab is blank, with JavaScript in the address bar.
And while we're on the subject, what about right-click disabling? Another JavaScript bane - for goodness' sake, if anyone's wants to copy your code, chances are they'll know how to bypass the intrusive "security" measure.
I hate Google. Actually, I don't hate Google at all. I actually use it from time to time. What I hate is The Cult of Google, the idea that Google is the only search engine/directory out there and that you have to be saying "Google" all the time to be cool.
I also hate that web people gave in to Microsoft's forcing Netscape out of the market. At first people complained about it but then everybody gave in and sucked up IE and forgot that Netscape had never gone away. Netscape 6 wasn't that great but it wasn't out that long before the much better version 7 (especially 7.2) came along. Then Firefox comes along and all the web gurus are like, "No way! Finally a cool browser! Had to put up with that sucky IE for the past seven years."
"Now I have a box that I can launch as many sites as I want to dream up."
As many sites? Don't think so. Better read that SLA again. Better not be wanting that server to be performant under heavy load either.
Unlike M$FT, open-source web technologies like Apache, PHP, and MySQL are FREE. Not $400, but free. And because they don't require a top-heavy GUI-based OS to run, they can handle many more visitors on the same amount of hardware.
Of all the annoyances plaguing the web, many of them are thanks to M$FT. Down with the Beast of Redmond.
You'd think by now most people get it - the web is about content content content and not about graphics by the pound, gradient backgrounds, 90% unclickable pages, meaningless flash, and "everybody has a fast connection now, it's not a problem"....grrrr…
Catching different browser bugs to maintain my design instead of simply display the line "˜you are using substandard and defected software; if it can't display this page properly do you really want to try a secure credit card transaction'.
Browser reviews that promote ActiveX Opt-in and Phishing Filter while failing to mention that it cannot render HTML, XHTML, CSS 1 or 2 and really; Advanced Printing? lets hope it can render a printed page better than the one on screen.
U.K web page accessibility; doesn't apply to printed pages but on a terminal it does? I guess printed page is so last year to the visually impaired.
The guys from the oversubscribed LAW courses who couldn't get work due to there being too many lawyers by a factor of ten, producing legislation that I have to give them half my income to interpret the aforementioned legislation so I can continue to work without sued by them for failing to meet the aforementioned legislation.
Explaining to client that they will have pay an annual free to AOL to send email to their customers who have already paid to receive email and also an annual free to an internet security to prevent denial of service attacks on them. (Wasn't the mobile phone industry found to be acting illegally when they billed both parties for one call?)
People who try to deny the fundament truth that the "˜customer is always right' and then blame competitors for unfair codes of practice when the customer goes with the guy that didn't restrict or deny them the product they wanted.
People crying over having to validate against W3C when it keeps out the hobbyists, W3C=Worth Free Cash.
Graphic Designers with proven web history who ask "˜Why can't you up the image quality and reduce the page loading time'
Big companies paying presumably vast amounts of money to produce websites that:
i) are hard to use
ii) look convoluted and as if they were designed in 2000
iii) use vast amounts of bandwidth for zero reason
iv) don't work in Firefox
v) and therefore ask you to 'upgrade' your browser to IE
When doing a search for certain types of information, a large proportion of the results are simply mirrors of what would be considered to be the master reference, causing the already large result list to be bloated even further.
Javadoc sites are particularly bad for this.
For example, do a search on 'HttpServletRequest' and the first 2 pages of results probably only contain 3 unique hits.
Maybe it's time for some meta tag that can be added to a site to indicate that it is a mirror (and which site it is a mirror of) so that search engines can simply show the mirror sites, next to the master, as 'Mirrors of this site' (With a link, of course)
Having said that, having the facility to search the web, like we do, should not be sneezed at - I really don't know how we got by before.
a) the use of animated gifs like smileys and "under construction"
b) MySpace
c) When you think it's new and exciting, it's like, 2 years old. It's hard to keep up
d) that everything starts to be a fad.
e) Dooce and every other person who got canned for blogging and then was suddenly cast on a throne. How DO these people still hold on to the fame?
f) Mommy and infertility bloggers. Cripes the psychotic nature in all of them!
But all in all, I LOVE the internet. Best. Invention. Ever.
1) Newspapers that make you "sign up" to read articles.
2) Sites that demand high security passwords to access low security content. Like this site, for example. Why must my password here be at least 6 characters, when I prefer an easy to remember 5 character password?
What I have hated over the past few years:
1) The sheer amount of catchup work I've had to do in web development. I spent too long using tables in my designs, and finally saw the light with CSS only recently. However, knowing where to start, and know for certain that I'm using the right hacks and/or techniques has been one of my headaches. At least, ALA is one safe haven!
2) Blogs - only because having a blog has confirmed that I have nothing much to write about, and has made me think about my life in general, and where my priorities are. Well, I guess that's a good thing really.
3) Buggy multi-page forms - getting 90% through a multi page form registration (typically anything to do with insurance, banking or mortgages), then getting stuck on some dynamic dropdown which only works in IE, and not any other browser.
4) Websites which don't tell you when they go down for maintenance. My wife spent ages filling in an online application form, only to press Submit, and it went to a blank screen (which had a maintenance message hidden in its source code!). Her form couldn't be recovered. She was angry. Real angry. And I couldn't do anything about it.
I have several. Since I'm chiefly an Intranet guy, I'm only slightly plagued by, but still dislike browser incompatibility. Where I get downright hostile is when it's "intentional" or intentionally not fixed for the advantage it might bring.
"The programmer with an idea."
About 4 months ago I did a search on the words "Senate ethics", and sure enough on page one I came up with "Click here for great prices on Senate enthics!" and "Ethics? Buy them on eBay!" Can't we just shoot these people?
"Search Degradation"
Time was you could simply enter the name of a questionable .EXE or .DLL you found lurking on your computer, and find out it's bona fides. Try it nowdays and the first page of Google hits are practically worthless ads without any genuine info. There are several more examples, but that one is characteristic.
I have never spent one cent on anything in a pop-up, pop-under, slide-out (you too, flash guys), or onunload(Buy_This(now)) and never will. Why would I hand money to anyone this inconsiderate of my time?
"Focus People!"
This whole notion of standards is getting a bit much, methinks. Obsessing on sites, and writing pages compliant to a standard is a bit much, considering that roughly 80% of the folk are browsing with a program intentionally non-compliant. Micro$not knows it and snickers, most users wouldn't know either way. If the tables were turned and Redmond only had 20% of the users, don't you think they'd change their ways over the weekend?
Banging on developer's heads is not really helpfull. It's the people doing browsers that have to comply or it's an airball. I mean, if a page I write isn't standards compliant, how does this hurt you? If done commercially producing a page unusable, the natural order of things will lead to users going elsewhere, or you having my job. In the end all are served.
The W3C has done a good job, up to a point, but hundreds of pages defining simple things is a bit out of hand. Kinda like NASA writing specs on a bottle rocket launch.
Last Thing.
The idea that it takes and understanding of 5 languages, and their interaction, how as many browsers react to this witches brew, AND the coding standards of each language is just nuts.
Know what I'd like to see? A genuine breakthrough. A CSS grouping that would, for instance, let me define H1, H2, H3, P, LI, fonts, weights, padding, and colors into one class. Then a page body you could do with something simple like:
<DIV class="newsrpint" columns="3">
A page worth of text
Too simple, huh?


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Okay, here it is, as promised.� A chicken dinner for any Sunday.
But this is not my grandmother's chicken dinner.� Not a whole chicken, unless you buy the chicken in cut it into serving pieces yourself.� Something I do not suggest as it takes up unnecessary time.� I usually go to my favorite meat guy, and have him do it for me.� I am perfectly capable of cutting up a whole chicken myself, but have no time to waste, either cutting or cleaning it up.� I have him cut out the backbone, cut off the wing tips, then cut the rest of the chicken into 8 serving pieces.� I take home the backbone and wing tips for stock.� (I don't consider making my own stock a waste of time.)
Anyway, this chicken dinner long preceded my grandma, who I think threatened to leave heaven to slap me upside the head if I didn't make a civilized Sunday dinner. Napoleon's chef is said to have cooked this either before or after the battle of Marengo.� Versions of the story vary.� But since it was a battlefield dish, his soldiers pilfered most of the ingredients from nearby farms – chickens, eggs, etc.� Don't ask me where they got the shrimp.
The fried eggs are very trendy.� Who knew Napoleon's troops would be trendy in an American big city in the twenty-first century?
Makes 6 servings
2 � pounds chicken, cut into 8 serving pieces
olive oil to film the bottom of the pan
2 cloves garlic, crushed
4 tomatoes, peeled, seeded, and chopped
1 cup dry white wine
6 or 12 slices French bread rounds (for crostini)
6 large eggs
6 extra large shrimp
1/4 cup parsley, chopped
Juice of 1 lemon (4 tablespoons)
Heat 2 tablespoons oil in skillet.� Add chicken, and cook, in batches, until golden on both sides. Remove chicken from pan; set aside.� Pour off and reserve the remaining oil. Heat 2 tablespoons fresh olive oil in the skillet.� Add garlic, swirling it around the pan until it is lightly golden, to flavor; discard garlic. Return chicken to the pan; add tomatoes, salt, pepper, and wine.� Cook until the chicken is tender, cooked through, and reaches about 155 to 160 degrees, 30 to 45 minutes. Reheat pan.� Add the bread; cook until golden on both sides; set aside.� Break eggs into pan, and cook as preferred, sunny-side-up or over-easy. Set aside.� Add shrimp to pan; cook until pink. Arrange all the elements on a serving platter:� Place the chicken pieces in the center.� Surround them with the pan-toasted bread (crostini) and lemon wedges. Top half the� crostini with eggs, the ��remainder with shrimp.� Sprinkle parsley over everything.�