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IUCN expert Francesca Pella, supported by the ornithologist Mikel Salvador Corres from Spain led water bird monitoring exercises in the Buna river Protected Landscape with the team of wildlife trainees last January. The group learned about the bird migration concept, a key topic that explains the importance of wintering sites and justifies the conservation of the Buna river wetlands. The next water bird monitoring session was held end of March, with the support of Borut Stumberger and Peter Sackl from Euronatur.
The trainees, Tonin Macaj, Eduard Gajtani and Zeqir Ujka spent time observing the birds, working with field guides and have learned several Latin bird names, which proved to be very useful when interacting with international experts. The introduction of correct classification of bird species was an important aspect of the training. The training started with a seminar on "Bird migration and monitoring techniques". The workshop highlighted the importance of winter birds count and of the winter quarters protection such as the Buna River Protected Landscape. Species already monitored in the previous years in this area were introduced, such as waders, colonial birds and raptors. Between 12 and 19 January, the team of experts and local collaborators visited the winter quarters within the protected area and recorded the observations, using the international field protocols for wintering birds.
While counting the individuals of Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), a considerable presence of Pygmy Cormorant (Phalacrocorax pygmeus) was noted in the Buna river. The data is still being processed, but preliminary results indicate that during the seven days of the training at least 3,782 individuals of 77 different species, excluding the individuals of Cormorant roosts, were counted. An extensive monitoring carried out in Solana salina in Montenegro showed the higher individual abundance and the species diversity – therefore indicating less disturbance and poaching than in the nearby Buna river Protected Landscape. Overall, the group observed large amounts of litter and a considerable number of poachers in the protected area, confirming serious concerns about heavy poaching, already expressed by Schneider-Jacoby et al (2006) and Schneider-Jacoby and Spangenberg (2010).
The next water bird monitoring session was held end of March, with the support of two zoologists, Mr. Stumberger and Mr. Sackl. The first day seminar was dedicated to monitoring in general (definition, key points, and indicators) supported by two examples (Lake Constance and Slovenia). The field monitoring was done in different areas of the protected landscape, although the access to some areas was limited due to the floods. Euronature's ornithologists would be happy to involve members of the wildlife team in their summer activities, which will take place in Montenegro and at the Shkoder Lake.
Prepared by Francesca Pella, IUCN Expert
Schneider-Jacoby M., Schwarz U., Sackl P., Dhora D., Saveljic D. and Stumberger B. (2006): Rapid assessment of the Ecological Value of the Bojana-Buna Delta (Albania/Montenegro). Euronatur, Radolfzell.
Schneider-Jacoby, M. & Spangenberg, A. (2010): Bird Hunting Along the Adriatic Flyway – an Assessment of Bird Hunting in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia and Serbia. – In: Denac, D., Schneider-Jacoby, M. & Stumberger, B. (eds.). Adriatic flyway – closing the gap in bird conservation. Euronatur, Radolfzell, pp. 32–51.


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I'm not working this weekend, so I've been sitting in front of the telly with a can of beer (Grolsch is my tipple of choice at the moment). Disappointingly, there was nothing I particularly wanted to see on the box. Come Dine With Me didn't appeal, and I detest the X Factor so much that I won't even entertain the thought of having it on anymore (I'm seriously considering buying Killing In The Name Of…).
I flicked over to the Beeb and was greeted by the Casualty* theme. I can't listen to that tune without wanting to say "Will everyone stop getting shot!" in a really bad cockney accent. Previously, I've said that I was no fan of medical dramas, but for some reason, I thought I'd give it a go. Maybe it's because I had nothing else in particular to do or maybe it's because I've just spent a month watching seven series of Scrubs, but I thought I'd see if Casualty had gotten any better since the last time I watched it.
I think it's definitely improved. I was quite pleasantly surprised and even moderately entertained. Back in the day, Casualty always used to be about "guess the really predictable disaster" and tonight's episode remained true to those roots. I can sum it up with: Man unscrews valve on bus/fluid starts leaking out/bus goes downhill on narrow country lanes/brakes fail/bus goes over cliff. I don't think it'll Casualty will ever top the classic "man in field/combine harvester" episode, but it's good to see the producers continue to try.
It's also good to see that at long last, the show has recognised the existence of us junior doctors. I've spent more time than I care to remember trying to explain to people that "junior doctor" and "medical student" are not the same thing and then explaining what we junior docs actually do all day. I think having us on telly will help a little bit. The juniors on the show all seem to be very attractive, much more attractive than any group of doctors that I've ever worked with, if a bit on the numptyish side.
All in all though, it kept me amused for three quarters of an hour or so, so it's definitely a big step up on the last time I watched a medical drama on the BBC. I might even consider watching it again next week.
If anyone reading this and thinks that I really need to get a life and get out more, I totally agree - Big Ed has just texted me and now I'm off out dancing…
* "Casualty" is such an old-fashioned name isn't it? I'd be interested to know if it's still called "Casualty" any hospital in the
Interestingly, more changes are afoot because it's been decided that "Accident & Emergency" is now not a good enough name, so it's going to become the "Emergency Department."
In about 10 years' time they'll probably all go back to being called "Casualty" again. Who makes these decisions? What a waste of time and effort.

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- Japanese Grand Prix
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Jenson Button won an enthralling Japanese Grand Prix ahead of Fernando Alonso as Sebastian Vettel secured his second world championship with 15 points in third.
It was a tight finish as tyre degradation dominated the race and Alonso closed to within 1.1s of Button at the chequered flag. Alonso pulled in the McLaren in the final five laps, but with two laps remaining Button responded and upped the ante with personal bests to maintain the gap and win the race.
Vettel, who led up until the second pit stops, settled for third in the knowledge that he needed just a single point for the title, and both he and Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber in fourth were ordered not to take any risks. Nevertheless he was still within 0.8s of the lead battle as they crossed the line.
Lewis Hamilton had another difficult race and finished fifth after a puncture and another tit-for-tat battle with Felipe Massa. Michael Schumacher managed to split the pair of them in sixth using a different tyre strategy and one of his most competitive races of the season. There final points positions were occupied by Serio Perez, Vitaly Petrov and Nico Rosberg after a drive up from 23rd.
The start of the race saw Button get a better start than Vettel, but the championship leader was aggressive as he blocked the inside line, forcing Button on to the grass. That allowed Hamilton through in to second, while Button appealed in vain for a penalty to be handed out. Vettel couldn't pull more than a three second gap in the first stint, but just as Hamilton appeared to be closing the gap a right rear puncture saw him lose out to Button and have to pit early.
Alonso passed his team-mate Felipe Massa in to turn one using DRS for fourth before Hamilton's problem, and then Vettel was the first of the front runners to make a scheduled stop, allowing Button to close the gap. Alonso also closed in, and the pair pitted together before rejoining ahead of Hamilton. After the first round of pit stops the top six were still separated by less than ten seconds and all harboured ambitions of victory.
Button then closed up on Vettel as the Red Bull struggled to look after its soft tyres. Both Vettel and Webber pitted on the same lap, with the timing perfect from the team; Vettel leaving the box as Webber arrived and losing no time. Button's pace before the stop was enough, however, as he pitted a lap later and rejoined just ahead.
Hamilton was forced to stay out longer to allow Button to pit, and he slipped in to the clutches of Massa. The inevitable contact came in to the chicane as Massa tried to pass on the outside and Hamilton didn't quite leave a car's width. It was very minimal but Massa lost part of his front wing as Hamilton immediately pitted.
The bit of debris remained in the middle of the track, and while Webber had managed to jump ahead of both Hamilton and Massa with a pit stop he suffered similar contact with Schumacher at turn seven, bringing out the safety car to allow the marshals to clear the circuit.
Button bunched the field heavily at the restart, but then pulled a solid gap as Vettel was forced to pit first for the medium tyre. Surprisingly it was Alonso who appeared to look after his tyres best, closing in on Button before the leader pitted, and then keeping pace for another two laps. Although Button kept the position, it allowed Alonso to jump Vettel for second.
Hamilton put a very clean move on Massa in to turn one using DRS, but was then held up behind Rosberg. Schumacher had inherited the lead before making his final stop, and Hamilton managed to crucially pass Rosberg as Schumacher rejoined ahead of Massa in a net sixth place.
Button appeared to have the race in control as he extended his lead to over five seconds, with the focus on the battle between Alonso and Vettel. Webber was closing in, but a team radio message told him not to challenge Vettel and informed him that Vettel would not be attacking Alonso. That left the Ferrari free to chase Button, and Alonso closed the gap to a second with a lap to go. Button had the response right at the end though, pumping in fastest laps before crossing the line and bringing the car to an immediate halt.
As Button celebrated in the pit lane, Vettel received the congratulations over the team radio and replied to his Red Bull team "Thank you so much every single one. Every single one. We took nothing for granted, and we did it." The third place made him the youngest double World Champion in Formula One history, and a fully deserving one after such a dominant season.


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If you're contemplating applying to be a Maker at Brighton Mini Maker Faire 2012, but are not sure what to expect, here's the lowdown from one of last year's Makers, Jay Kendall. We'll be featuring different Makers from last year's event over the next few weeks to give you a flavour for what to expect if you're thinking of coming this year. Don't forget you have until 20th June to apply.
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Never having done a Maker Faire before, I was unprepared for what unravelled throughout the day. Having organised all my supplies, a spare pair of hands, a bed for the night before so I wouldn't be late, and the bus timetable for the same reason, I was in theory prepared.
I arrived early, found my space and set everything up. There were lots of volunteers to assist and so many exhibitors I was rather overwhelmed by the scale of what the fair was offering to the public. I was having second thoughts, technology was all around me, helicopters flying, moving images and stuff I couldn't begin to describe. What was I doing there? I work with wool and was going to demonstrate how to make felt balls, no technology, no laptop, no electricity, no robotics – just wool and a needle.
The rooms began to fill up and my helper made it in the nick of time. A very quick tutorial and a health and safety talk later, and we were surrounded by eager hands wanting to make a ball. From that moment on we didn't stop talking and demonstrating.
Sit down, health and safety talk, wool, needle, this is how you do it. So many times it was impossible to keep track. Again and again and again.
A friend of a friend fetched coffee and by the time my helper broke free to find refreshments all that was left was cake. I managed to escape for 10 mins to cross the road and eat my lunch before elbowing my way back in to continue as before.
Children as young as three enjoyed making a ball; boys, girls, mums, dads and grans all queued patiently and watched how it was done until it was their turn. The room was a buzz with excitement and the noise level was tremendous, but at our tables there was quiet chatter as everyone concentrated on what they were doing, knowing that if they took their eyes off the project they may stab themselves.
I left the Corn Exchange feeling so exhausted it was as if I'd run a marathon. Would I do it again? You bet!
Jay Kendall is a knitting and felting expert who ran a workshop at Brighton Mini Maker Faire 2011. This year we are looking for all sorts of Makers, from traditional crafts like this, to technological, scientific and other do-it-yourself creations. Find out more and sign up at: www.makerfairebrighton.com/call-to-makers-2012


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I'm sorry, that just looks like a condom...I'll stick with my Castelli head thingy
Giro's Ambient Skull Cap is a thin thermal fleece lined cap to keep your head and ears warm.
Sewn together from four panels of water resistant DWR treated material the front panel offers further protection from the winter by being made from Windstopper fabric, to stop the wind giving you an ice-cream headache. The inside of each panel is fleece-lined for warmth and there's an extra strip of fabric along the inside seam of the brim for sweat absorption.
A deep flap extends from the sides all the way round the back, coming down far enough to keep even the most wingnutty of ears warm, and the nape of the neck toasty, but it's easy enough to fold up out the way should things get too hot on a climb or if a feeble sun comes out. Although that means the cute reflective Giro logo on the rear of the flap gets hidden. Shame.
The peak is a fraction of the size of a normal cycle cap, Giro don't even call it a peak but a micro-brim, which is probably a clue, and at only a fat finger's width deep it's no good at all for keeping a low sun or slanty rain out of the eyes. Which is a pity as you'd expect a lot of both in the kind of conditions this cap is designed for. The micro-brim does have a strip of reflective piping along the edge though, which is nice.
The Giro cap is easily thin enough to fit under a helmet and all the joins are flat 'Smart Seams' so they don't rub, and it's snug enough on the head to wear helmet-free without it feeling like it's going to rip off at speed or go a bit Noddy at the crown. The Ambient comes in two sizes, small/medium and large/x-large with the latter fitting this standard medium head comfortably, but not too tightly, with plenty of stretch to spare for bigger bonces.
That Windstopper front works well, halting icy breezes in their tracks once they've made their way through the vents in your helmet that are specially designed to channel lots of cold air onto your forehead, but as the DWR coated fabric is only water resistant rather than proof it will only keep a brief shower at bay.
But most importantly it's a lovely warm cap, though not so warm that you get a instant brow sweat under effort - obviously your operating temperature will have a bearing on what temperature you'll find this hat useful at, but safe to say as soon as the thermometer hovered near zero then the Giro Ambient came out. Flaps down for the first bit of the ride while things tried to warm up. If things did get a bit warm and sweaty the Ambient cap did a good job of wicking moisture away so the head didn't become a damp and frosty lump once on the chilly descent.
It's also been quite handy indoors recently.
Light, thin, warm winter cap that's easily and comfortably worn under a helmet or just on its own.
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Giro Ambient Skull Cap
Size tested: One, white
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
Giro say we've all been there - out for a ride without a cap, the winter wind biting at your ears, then your arms start to shake and things get dicey from there. Our new Ambient Winter Skullcap can help solve all of that, keeping your dome warm with a soft thermal fleece lining, a wind-stopping front panel and cozy ear flaps. Bonus: It's designed to fit within a variety of helmets.
I've never gone for a winter ride without some sort of cap or hat on so we'll skip that bit. But the rest of it is right enough, it's a cap, a warm wind-stopping cap that fits under a helmet, with ear flaps.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Thermal fleece lined cap designed to fit within a variety of helmets. Water resistant DWR treated material, wind stopper front panel with ear flaps, small micro-brim for use with helmets, Smart Seam construction.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
On the whole, great. Warm, good ear coverage, not a problem under a helmet. The micro-brow was disappointing and marks the cap down a few points, making us wish for a proper peak to shield low winter sun and shitty rain.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Warm ears, comfy fit, you can look like Stirling Moss in the white one.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
The peak was too small, you might look like Stirling Moss in the white one, so it's also available in black.
Did you enjoy using the product? Mostly, yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Maybe, the micro-brow issue might put me off to be honest.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Maybe.
About the tester
Age: 42 Height: 180cm Weight: 73kg
I usually ride: It varies as to the season. My best bike is: The one I\'m on at the time
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: road racing, cyclo cross, general fitness riding, fixed/singlespeed, mtb, Fun
Jo Burt has spent the majority of his life riding bikes, drawing bikes and writing about bikes. When he's not scribbling pictures for the whole gamut of cycling media he writes words about them for road.cc and when he's not doing either of those he's pedaling. Then in whatever spare minutes there are in between he's agonizing over getting his socks, cycling cap and bar-tape to coordinate just so. And is quietly disappointed that yours don't He rides and races road bikes a bit, cyclo-cross bikes a lot and mountainbikes a fair bit too. Would rather be up a mountain.


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[Editor's note: Eagle-eyed RPG hounds may notice this is very similar to the text of our review for Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis on PS2. That's because despite the different titles, this isthe exact same game with a few additions, which we'll note.]
If you've even bothered to read this review, we're going to go ahead andrecommend Mana Khemia. Your interest is probably due to past run-ins with Gust/NIS collaborations (Atelier Iris, Ar tonelico) and if it's more of the same you're after, here's another heaping portion to tide you over until the next super-cute, anime-soaked, cliche-ridden JPRG lands on PS2.
It all starts with the same stock characters we've seen countless times - amnesiac boy with an ominous past, clumsily cute gal pal, adventurous blowhard, hyperactive floozy etc. The twist is they're all in school, so most of the gameplay revolves around completing assignments, chatting with friends and synthesizing new items for later use. Synthesis was interesting in the first Iris, and even in the second, but after a third Iris and tonelico, the idea of blending countless items together has started to lose its appeal. It no longer feels creative; instead it's an obnoxious middleman that you have no choice but to employ. Who wants to make the sword when you can buy one down the hall? Hope you're willing to spend 30-40 hours searching for ingredients and mixing them together in varying degrees to produce slightly different results.
To further complicate the process, item synthesis has now been integrated with leveling up. Fighting monsters (in traditional you-go/I-go style) nets you money and XP, but the latter doesn't do anything on its own. You can fight endlessly and never gain one level. Instead you must forge items from your Grow Book (think FFX's sphere grid or XII's license board) to activate links between nodes. Each node has different attributes you purchase with your accumulated XP. It's yet another way of extending what was an already grinding process - leveling up your characters. Plus if you're missing ingredients you have to exit out, seek out the new items and head back to your special brewing pot at school. Tedious!
We value a solid battle system over anything else when it comes to RPGs. As long as that's sound, we're set for 30, 40, 100 hours of gameplay. Khemia's battles start off slow, dull and hard, but eventually they blossom into strategic power struggles. Your main three characters sit out front and act as the front line. Another three sit offscreen and play the support role, hopping in to finish combos or whatnot. If you're using your best skills, dealing a ton of damage and exploiting your enemy's elemental weaknesses, a Burst gauge will charge and enable you to pull off some supremely devastating combos. The meter's a hell of a lot harder to fill than tonelico or Iris 3, so when you do finally fill the bastard, it's a genuine accomplishment. Too bad it takes hours for this side of the battle system to appear.


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College Bound, a St. Louis non-profit that aims to help high school students with "under-resourced" backgrounds get into college and earn a degree, is piloting a new mobile app designed to nudge students at key stages to persist in their college efforts. Code-named "Bridgit," the app is being tested by 40 high school counselors, and researchers are hoping to have it tried out with up to 4,000 students before the pilot is over.
The organization behind this project was seeking new ways to prevent "summer melt," a term used to describe the process that happens between the time a student is accepted into a college or university and when he or she actually enrolls. During that period the student has a myriad of tasks to take care of — going through loan acceptance, compiling immunization records, putting in a housing request, registering for courses, attending orientation and other college-related activities. College Bound estimated that "upwards of 40 percent" of students from low-income families don't weather summer melt.
Bridgit is intended to help them stay on track with all that's required. The app works by having students fill out a survey about their specific college plans and other aspects of their lives. Then Bridgit starts texting customized messages to the students to remind them about what they need to do to stay on top of their college requirements.
As coverage by St. Louis PBS described it, "Bridgit's job is to construct extra scaffolding around efforts to build up college enrollment." When a student takes a step in the right direction, it tracks that; when the student misses something, it sends alerts to counselors to intercede.
A small pilot took place last summer. And early results from the expanded pilot look promising.
In the course of six days, 1,200 students had completed the survey, the first step in Bridgit being able to automate task reminders. "We felt it was critical to foster engagement with high-school students, and texting is a primary way kids communicate and build relationships today," said Gregory Hill, director of innovation at College Bound. "Counselors can easily coordinate their case loads and also communicate directly with students via text. This is freeing up counselors to focus on problem-solving rather than information gathering and, more importantly, keep track of students at risk of not enrolling."
Current testing is being done by college success programs St. Louis Graduates and Missouri College Advising Corps as well as through "random control trials" taking place at seven high schools in Missouri and Tennessee.
Researchers Benjamin Castleman from the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and Lindsay Page from the University of Pittsburgh School of Education are guiding the initiative. Once they've finished their research (expected by spring 2015), Bridgit could be licensed to districts or states for educators to use with students and families. It may also be deployed directly to families through foundation grants.
College Bound's goal, said College Bound CEO Lisa Orden Zarin, "is to make the technology free to students from low-income households." Another option under consideration is to create a fee for service offering.
The app was jointly developed by College Bound and Sense Corp, a management consulting firm. The project team chose to develop and deploy the software on OutSystems, a cloud-based Web application platform. That approach offers several advantages, noted Jeff Newlin, general manager of the Americas for OutSystems. For one, the app could be instantly scaled "from a few users to thousands." For another, since development infrastructure wasn't required, the solution could be deployed in a "short time." Also, as changes are made to the application's data model, programming interfaces or architecture, dependencies are "automatically updated." Management of the app is done through a central console.
The work is being funded by a $750,000 grant from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, which supports urban education as one of its flagship programs.
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It may not be the Great American Novel, but I do have a book out as of a week or two ago. Middle English Surnames in West Yorkshire is a book version of my MA thesis, and it should be of interest to folks into genealogy, onomastics (names), language, the SCA or similar groups, or English history.
The first part of the book is an overview of surnames and the names in the Wakefield Manor court rolls. The rest of the book — most of it — is a list of all the names with etymologies and references, divided by type.
If you are looking for a medieval name for the SCA, this is a good source. Every name in the list is from the 13th or 14th century, so they are all documented during SCA period. Many of the names are from place names as well, so this is also useful when looking for a place name to use.
Here are a few places to buy it:
- The CreateSpace store (I get paid more from this one.) 😉
- Amazon (paperback)
- Amazon (Kindle)
It should appear in other locations soon as well.


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I want to get a grip about the technical problems related to proving Penrose conjecture
Intuitively, it seems it should not be too difficult; just start by classifying it in 0-dimensional (i.e: Schwarschild singularity) and 1-dimensional singularities (i.e: Kerr singularities).
Assume we have a naked 0-dimensional singularity, take a neighbourhood small enough around it, how does the field look as the neighbourhood shrinks? can't i say that the asymptotic symmetry around the singularity is spherical? why can't i use this symmetry effectively to prove that there must be a schwarschild-like event horizon?
Assume now we have a naked 1-dimensional singularity, a neighbourhood small enough should have cylindrical symmetry. Find appropiate solutions given from symmetry, repeat and rinse
Where is currently stuck the programme for proving this conjecture? is there some specific step that is problematic, or this whole approach doesn't work for some deeper reasons?


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What do you need to do to get featured in the New York Times? Just get a Facebook group of about 800 people, apparently. The website Stuff Journalists Like noted a trend of journalists who love the social network.
There are two types of journalists – those who use Facebook and those who don't get Facebook. Those of the latter often dismiss cell phones and power car windows.
Not since the phone book has there been a tool journalists used more than Facebook.
Facebook is a favorite tool for journalists to find stories, and it just takes is a page to attract some attention. Last week, Bobby noted what looks like an increased number of puff pieces on atheists. His post nicely prepared us for the Times profile of black atheists, a group the paper just discovered and found it best to fit in front of Sunday's style section.
Ronnelle Adams came out to his mother twice, first about his homosexuality, then about his atheism.
"My mother is very devout," said Mr. Adams, 30, a Washington resident who has published an atheist children's book, "Aching and Praying," but who in high school considered becoming a Baptist preacher. "She started telling me her issues with homosexuality, which were, of course, Biblical," he said. " 'I just don't care what the Bible says about that,' I told her, and she asked why. 'I don't believe that stuff anymore.' It got silent. She was distraught. She told me she was more bothered by that than the revelation I was gay."
This is a fairly dramatic lead to the story that only serves as a mini anecdote with no further explanation. What was the path he took from considering being a Baptist preacher to becoming an atheist? From the opening, you might guess it has something to do with his sexuality, but the piece doesn't flesh that out, making the lead anecdote a lazy way to get into a flat story.
In the two years since, Black Atheists has grown to 879 members from that initial 100, YouTube confessionals have attracted thousands, blogs like "Godless and Black" have gained followings, and hundreds more have joined Facebook groups like Black Atheist Alliance (524 members) to share their struggles with "coming out" about their atheism.
Listen, a Facebook group of 879 members for something is basically nothing. I understand this is in the style section and may not need a hook, but framing the story with these numbers makes it seem like it's some sort of trend, when 800 really isn't that many for a place like Facebook.
While some black clergy members lament the loss of parishioners to mega-churches like Rick Warren's and prosperity-gospel purveyors like Joel Osteen, it is often taken for granted that African-Americans go to religious services. Islam and other religions are represented in the black community, but with the assumption that African-Americans are religious comes the expectation that they are Christian.
This is stated with authority but with little to back it up. Why not attribute this to anyone?
Given the cultural pull toward religion, less than one-half of a percent of African-Americans identify themselves as atheists, compared with 1.6 percent of the total population, according to Pew. Black atheists, then, find they are a minority within a minority.
I don't doubt that this story is true. It would probably be difficult to be nonreligious--especially atheist--in a black community. It just annoys me that the Times would print something so obvious. If there were a mass trend towards atheism in the black community, I might find it more interesting. But nothing in the piece taught me anything new about faith, race or culture, and breaking new ground is where I would hope the paper would devote its resources.
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We are having a tough year for our mason bees for some reason... I'd love any comments from the experts as to any causes or remedies for next year.
Last year we lost a lot of our cocoons to Mono wasps in early June (they even bored through the thick craft tubes). IIRC we ended up with about 60 or so cocoons after throwing most of them out (candled with a flash light to see the wasp larvae). This year I supplemented my remaining cocoons with an order of 20 and 30 cocoons from one of the well respected suppliers in order to build the population back up. We have 2 bee homes and my cocoons went in the top house and the 'replacement' cocoons went in the bottom.
Of my original cocoons most of them hatched but something is wiping them out in a hurry. All were placed out about 3-5 weeks ago and only 2 femalesremain. Last week there were 11. I found one dead on the ground, and another headless in the box. I haven't seen any birds around the boxes, and both our honeybee hives are thriving so far with no evidence of pesticide poisoning.
Even stranger, of the 'replacement cocoons' most never hatched. All were wintered together in my fridge in 2 separate boxes but the same environment.
I don't understand what happened this year and likely never will, but it's somewhat frustrating after doing everything by the book. Last year we had a fantastic year until the Mono hit. This year who knows? Maybe they had a poor pollen resource and ran out of fat reserves?
Here are a few photos. Note the queens that I cut out of the cocoons, one very dark and one very light.


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Earth's drone-heavy experimentation is largely the result of its one lasting member, guitarist Dylan Carlson. The band was originally formed in 1990 in Olympia, Washington by Carlson, Slim Moon (who later founded the Kill Rock Stars label), and Greg Babior. Moon and Babior left soon after and were replaced by Joe Preston. Earth played a few live shows and then recorded some material with Mike Lastra. After opening for L7 in Seattle, the group was approached by Sub Pop Records, which released the recordings in 1991 as Extra-Capsular Extraction. The following year, Carlson and Preston recorded Earth 2 with producer Stewert Hallerman, but Preston left soon after the album's release.
Sub Pop was unhappy with Earth's lackadaisical recording tendencies, and the label pulled the plug on 1993 sessions for the third album. Recording resumed the following year with producer Ian Dickson (who would become a permanent member just one year later), engineer Scott Benson, and drummer Rick Cambern. Phase 3 was finally released in April 1995. A live album taken from a Blast First label concert was released the same year as Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars. Sub Pop surprisingly re-signed Earth for three more albums early in 1996, and Carlson recorded a new album, Pentastar: In the Style of Demons. The album showed a more stabilized band, with the addition of guitarist Shawn McElligot and drummer Mike McDaniels. After a small series of live performances following the release, Earth quietly disbanded with virtually no public acknowledgment of the split. A live album appeared in 2000, followed the next year by a series of demos (one including a vocal from the deceased Kurt Cobain) issued with a CD version of the Sunn Amps EP. An Earth video titled A Bureaucratic Desire for Revenge was also available from Sub Pop.
Earth returned in 2002 for a series of live shows in the U.S. and Europe, this time as a two-piece with Carlson and drummer Adrienne Davies. That lineup was featured on 2005's Living in the Gleam of an Unsheathed Sword. The album was recorded live, with its title cut lasting nearly an hour. Earth returned that September with the more ambitious Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method, which suggested the sound of a drone metal band covering Giant Sand or Scenic. The year 2008 saw the release of Hibernaculum, which offered four long songs, three of which originally appeared on earlier recordings but were performed on this set via the new Earth sonic aesthetic. It also contained a DVD featuring concert and interview footage from the Hex tour. The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull appeared in 2009, and took the latter-day Earth sound into even more hauntingly abstract and cinematic directions.
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'I feel better knowing I have the option of not being a victim'
In WBEZ's ongoing series, "Our Guns," we talked to gun owners about what role firearms play in their lives. In this segment, we spoke to a gay man and a transgender woman who own guns.
The idea to explore gun ownership from this perspective came from a national group called Pink Pistols. The group advocates gun ownership in the LGBT community. Their tagline is "pick on someone your own caliber," and "armed gays don't get bashed."
Gwendolyn Patton of Pink Pistols says the group changes the perception that gay people are easy victims.
"We teach queers to shoot, then we teach the rest of the world we've done it," she said. "Because then they may think twice about using (LGBT people) as a target."
It's difficult to know just how big the Pink Pistols movement is— Pink Pistols doesn't keep a national count.
LGBT leaders told us that gun ownership used to protect against hate crimes was rare. But Pink Pistols said that being out of the closet didn't mean you were out of the gun cabinet, so there may be more gay gun owners than we know.
There isn't currently an active Pink Pistols group in Chicago. But we did find to two local LGBT gun owners. Both say they own guns, in part, for recreational use. But protection played a role, too.
Tallie lives in Oak Park, Illinois and was initially scared of owning and operating a gun. So, she pushed herself to practice and has become more and more comfortable with using one. She said she believed it's her right to defend herself.
OT lives in Chicago Heights, Illinois. He's a small business-owner who first bought a gun to protect his business from burglary. He said he wants anyone thinking about causing harm or damage to think twice about messing with him.


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Two Eminarti banks are to open branches in Syria, reported the daily newpaper Tishrin on Monday, March 19.
Khalifa Nuaimi, the CEO of Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank told newspapers that the bank's aim is to enter the Syrian market as it is presently experiencing "a positive business climate."
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Inovo, Inc., Naples, FL, a manufacturer of oxygen regulators and conservers for the Class II medical market, has launched Plex Online as its new ERP software provider. The software, from Plex Systems, Auburn Hills, MI, integrates Inovo's financial-related functions—accounts receivables and payable and inventory management—and its production systems—quality control, engineering-change controls, and corrective and preventive action systems.
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Side-stepping IEFebruary 25, 2004
I've explored the MOSe (Mozilla/Safari/Opera enhancement) concept twice in the past: MOSe and MOSe Menus.
Let's turn that telescope around. Let's take a look at some of Internet Explorer for Windows' biggest CSS deficiencies, and how you can use MOSe techniques or just plain old hacks to get around these problems.
Lack of Scalability
IE is the only modern browser on the market that doesn't allow you to resize pixel-value text. The problem of course, is that we've long known that the
px unit is the best way of ensuring cross-browser and cross-platform consistency.
So we have a choice: either don't specify a font size at all and wait for the flood of emails from the 95% of the population that doesn't even know they can change that, or break text scaling in Win/IE.
That is, we HAD a choice. Owen Briggs has since done a lot of work, and came to a pretty useful conclusion about font sizing:
I found you can make a nice ems stylesheet with
<p>text at 1.0 em, and then downsize the whole thing by selecting size in
<body>with %, like
76%. It's simple, easy to change, and works for everything. Score 1 for late nights and coffee. Enjoy.
I've been using this method for a while, and it's not quite as reliable as
px, but it's close enough for my liking.
Lack of support for
min-width and
Again comparing to all other browsers on the market, IE is the only one that doesn't support the CSS2 properties
min-width and
max-width (which have been a standard since 1997, incidentally). These are incredibly useful for controlling larger areas of type, particularly when setting line length limits to aid in readability.
The trick to getting around
min-width in IE is actually pretty easy. IE treats
width as if it were
min-width. By exploiting the fact that IE doesn't support child selectors either (more on this later) we can create a simple bit of code that doesn't allow a browser window to shrink below a certain size:
body {
width: 700px;
html>body {
width: auto;
min-width: 700px;
Max-width is trickier, and involves a non-standard, proprietary extension. A clever fellow named Svend Tofte has written up the gory details, but consider yourself warned: using this will prevent your CSS file from validating.
The question begs: what about
width? If IE treats it as if it were
min-width, then how do we get the functionality of
width? The answer hurts: we don't.
Lack of Alpha Channel support for PNG
One of the more-often lamented problems is that IE doesn't support the alpha channel of a transparent PNG. Fancy overlays and smooth transparency effects are only a pipe dream for, well, once more, all other browsers on the market. (Why would this be nice? Look!)
Luckily, as non-standard, proprietary hacks would have it, there is a solution. Our Swedish friends Erik and Emil tell us how to get PNG working in IE. Again: no validation for you if you choose to use it.
Lack of
:hover Support
:hover does work in IE, you say? On links, yeah, it has for quite some time. Even IE4 got that part right.
So what's the problem? Take a look at Eric Meyer's Pure CSS Menus in IE. The menu on the right has flyouts, but only in non-IE browsers. They're pure CSS menus, and rely on
:hover applied to list items, not links. Take a look at the menus dropping down from this very site, top right. Running IE? No dice.
This is a bit of an esoteric problem at the moment, but it's becoming more and more central-focus as we're exploring more seriously the advanced CSS that allows these sorts of menus.
Once again, hacks to the rescue! This time it's Peter Nederlof bringing us the fix. In his whatever:hover article, Peter exploits the HTC file hack that got our PNGs working in the last example. Validate, non.
Lack of child and adjacent selectors
Last one for now. CSS2 introduced some powerful new selectors in 1997 that we've been able to use to cut down coding time, and exploit new and advanced CSS effects.
Well, that's only half true since IE doesn't keep up. In fact, because IE doesn't understand these selectors, we've actually been using them to hide CSS from it. It's been awfully handy, and out of this whole list, I'd prefer to see this problem addressed dead last. If we don't have a reliable way of hiding CSS from Internet Explorer, then the web stays stagnant until IE gets better.
IE isn't getting better. The web stays stagnant without these. I'm not really complaining about this point at the moment.
IE Bug Corner
We'd be in good shape if that were the end of it, but oh no, that's merely the tip of the iceberg. Bugs! I haven't even started to touch on the CSS bugs that IE induces. John and Holly over at Position is Everything have a great list of IE Bugs complete with workarounds in most cases, make sure to bookmark this one for later use.
This has been a brief overview of IE's more glaring problems, with current solutions. None of these are ideal, but in an ideal world we'd never have to work around deficiencies. I haven't touched on everything, I'm merely providing a starting point. Feel free to suggest more in the comments.
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Client-side scripting is inherently unreliable, and server-side negotiation dramatically reduces cacheability.
I'd agree with you if it was merely a case of user-agent sniffing, but it can be used for other purposes - as I mentioned, CSS signatures would no longer be needed. Another idea is different rules based upon the width of the browser:
@env[canvas-width < 500px] #sidebar {
display: none;
@env[canvas-width >= 500px] #sidebar {
float: left;
width: 15em;
re: dusoft
Why would the be so bad? We can say media=screen, why not env="useragent:mozill" or env="domain:blah.com" or heck, go crazy, env="domain:*mine.com,useragent:*ie*"
Wouldn't that just be one more seperation of content/style/form that all of this css/xhtml/xml/xslt stuff is about?
Some guy wrote a comment in my blog that complained about the <abbr> tag not working in IE.
He linked to his site with a solution cleverly called abbr-cadabra.
He basically forces abbr into the document parsing tree. It doesn't validate, but he says that is a failure of the validator, and is perfectly legal XHTML 1.1 Strict.
Ahh. Here's a script that does almost the same thing: http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/topic/50459-1.html
Anyway, I so hope that the next IE gets these things right. Not to mention makes standards compliance mode the default instead of needing to be tickled into it. :)
Re: font sizes
For some time now, I've been using a double set of rules to specify a base font-size for the <body> element. A hacked WinIE rule that specifies the size in percentages (e.g. 75%) and then another rule for the MOS browsers that specifies the size in pixels (e.g. 12px).
Then I make sure that all my other font-size specifications use EM measurements (e.g. 0.92em) that build - either directly or indirectly - on the base font-size set for the <body> element.
I've found this method to be absolutely, perfectly reliable.
I hate it when the non-English characters in my name get screwed up by funky software. Ack!
Escaped HTML character-entities ´ and Ö to the rescue!
The key to get a validating website which is relatively cruft-free is to add conditional comments (http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/ccomment_ovw.asp). I've used them on my site and they work very nicely. Now all my IE-specific CSS hacks go into a seperate CSS stylesheet, in which eg. box-model problems and font-sizing issues are resolved. Also, by using the "behavior" CSS extension, you can easily link in the additional Javascript trickery which IE needs.
I'm quite surprised that these tricks are so little used (or mentioned). They're great for forward-compatibility and they keep your CSS and HTML hack-free.
Any font-size solutions which make the assumption that the IE user still has thier base size set to the default 16px, and then uses a value like 76% to size it down is just asking for trouble.
If the user *has* changed their default size to something like 12px, then 76% of 12 is 9.12 – way too small for the average high-res monitor these days.
If they've set their default to 10, we're now talking 7.6px – illegible for almost every font every invented.
There is a better way, but I'm only half way through testing… to be continued soon!
Jim Dabell:
"Another idea is different rules based upon the width of the browser:
@env[canvas-width < 500px] #sidebar {
display: none;
That is what the css3 media queries are for, and they are already supported by Opera.
I completely second Jeroen's comments in regards to IE's conditional comments… you can an entirely new IE stylesheet inside a special comment tag, and only IE will ever see it… sure, it's a second stylesheet and a few extra lines in your , but it's so simple… zero hacks required, and you can target each version (5, 5.5, 6) separately if needed.
No server-side or client-side scripting need at all – just a standards-compliant comment that talks with IE.
re: Jeff Minard
In a way, the user agent is a media type. However, I am also in favor of using an ugly-but-mostly-unique URI to prevent namespace conflicts between browsers (*cough* phoenix *cough*) and versions. Thus I'd much rather say media="UA:http://www.mozilla.org/ns/M1.6 screen, UA:http://www.opera.com/ns/O7.11/linux alternative all" This seems to be the most flexible to me.
Of course other selectors I would like to see support for :focus ( http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#useraction-pseudos ) and :target ( http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#useraction-pseudos ). There is a whole list of cool selectors that I would like to (:before, :after, etc).
Hello: I've also been using Briggs' Magic-76 solution reliably.
Justin: If I understand you correctly, the point is not to use 76% as the font size the user sees, but just as a departure point to get a solid cross-browser base.
That is, I specify 76% on my BODY, but then P uses 102% and H1 uses 142%. (Yes, that 2% there counts for getting it right in most browsers).
I've heard others are using ems just as fine.
The point is, the user is not getting the 7.6px font-size he would get if I _only_ used 76%.
For font sizing I've been using font-size keywords for a while with reasonable success - after employing the usual hack to make sure IE5 behaves. Using percentage values on paragraphs and such allows IE to resize text at acceptable degrees: not too big, not too small.
The child and descendant selectors is the big issue, as far as I'm concerned. I want this one addressed *first*. The benefits are too great to be ignored. This and :hover support in IE would be a major step forward.
PNG support and implementation of max- and min-width are less crucial, though ought to be there in any next generation IE.
I really think browser makers should come together and agree upon a standard for hiding CSS. It should work like robots meta tags/files. Name a user agent, and you can specify whether you want only it or everything *but* it to read the code. Something like this:
/* _useragent-hide: IE 6, IE 5 */
/* _useragent-show: Mozilla, Safari */
Of course, there might be better syntax, but I'm just showing the idea. Also, I didn't bother to type in real user-agent strings.
I doubt that such a thing would be added to the W3C recommendation. However, I'm sure there would be no complaints, given how handy it would be. Browsers will *always* have bugs, even if they are exceptionally good, so we might as well stop depending on browsers having hacks and agree on a unified way of doing things.
Chris, the more I think about it, the more I think you're right. The major assumption in *not* having a method for hiding CSS is that all browsers will get all CSS right.
The current state of browser support is enough to dissuade anyone from this view, provided they've been building sufficiently complex CSS that takes full advantage of what it's supposed to offer.
Excellent summary of things we've all come to known one way or another, and best yet with workarounds supplied. Even as I'd wish to not having to do hacks, I have done the html>body trick for some time to separate IE-specific measures from "correct" measures for all other browsers.
Of those, the one that caught my attention more is the PNG support in IE, even if as gory and un-W3C as it looks. After looking at the examples though, I must admit this is something I dreamed of seeing for a long, long time. Too bad you have to trade validation to get PNG working properly in IE. We are missing on a lot of great features.
I'll keep my mouth shut about the font-size issue, as I doubt you will budge on it.
I've suggested the concept of tailored CSS before - as something like:
@env[user-agent="Googlebot.*"] {
/* Rules for Google only */
My reasoning was that you often want to tailor your CSS differently without resorting to HTTP negotiation. A standard @env rule where you could bung environmental stuff would be handy (e.g. no need for id="www-mezzoblue-com", just use @env[domain=…] in your user stylesheet).
Oh yes, a couple of other things: it's a nice summary, and a good place to point people when they wonder why I hate Internet Explorer.
I'm far more likely to go with a solution that involves invalid CSS than invalid HTML for a couple of reasons. The rules for CSS error handling are well-defined, the rules for HTML error handling are merely suggestions for a basic policy. Furthermore, If there's a problem with the CSS, it's probable that the content is still accessible, even if that means switching off CSS in your browser. If there's a problem with the HTML, there's no possibility of that, unless you count "view source".
Nice writeup, Dave. I totally agree with your statements on the CSS2 child and descendent selectors. I find myself using these more and more every day to hide things from IE. These definitely should be the last to be fixed.
RE: Jim Dabell:
You can always do that with server-side scripting or even by using JavaScript, I don't think it's a good idea to implement such a technique in CSS.
One thing that IE does wrong that reallyannoys me but never seems to get mentioned is absolute positioning. Specificaly if you set a left and right value it ignores the right, even if you've set width to auto.
This of course assumes I've read the spec correctly. ( http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#q24 , http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visudet.html#Computing_widths_and_margins">http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visudet.html#Computing_widths_and_margins">http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visudet.html#Computing_widths_and_margins">http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visudet.html#Computing_widths_and_margins">http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visudet.html#Computing_widths_and_margins">http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visudet.html#Computing_widths_and_margins">http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visudet.html#Computing_widths_and_margins">http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visudet.html#Computing_widths_and_margins">http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visudet.html#Computing_widths_and_margins )
It's just that if this worked it would be the holy grail of page design. Stick things where you want them, sized how you want them and you're sorted.
Simon (Wheatley), It's not width that's the problem, but min-width and, particularly, max-width. IE does not support the latter without egregious workarounds.
I must say it seems ironic to want child and descendant selector support to be last on the list of improvements to IE, simply because we've come to rely on that very lack of support to hide styles from it. We should want the best for the world's favourite browser, even if we only use it for testing ;)
Dammit, I keep saying descendant when I mean adjacent! Gah.
"IE is the only modern browser on the market that doesn't allow you to resize pixel-value text."
Today, no. See that: http://www.lucamascaro.info/trasformer/. It works! Px is transformed in em by this Mazinga transformer JS.
re: Chris Vincents' suggestion of /* _useragent-hide: IE 6, IE 5 */
First of all, I guess this would mean a major overhaul of IE's rendering engine, and MS would have to supply a patch for older IE's out there (which wouldn't help, since a large amount of users wouldn't even know, and even if, they wouldn't apply the patch - myDoom anyone?). Or MS could build this in to whatever comes with Longhorn, but then they could fix the numerous errors right away and ship a decent browser.
I love causing controversy.
> I love causing controversy.
You like people disagreeing with you?
> don't go breaking it up into a mish mash of bug and oversight fixes.
I never suggested that. I suggested a clean way of including environmental information in selectors. As Moose pointed out, some of the functionality is already proposed as part of CSS 3.
> If you want to do all this crap borwser checking malarky use something many people already love to hate - javascript for example
If you scroll up, you'll see I dismissed both server and client-side scripting as causing unwanted side-effects (plus they are both unreliable). If you have some magic way of making those issues go away, by all means, share them.
I've tried both the 76% method and the keywords method, and I have to say that I have had best luck with the keywords as long as I remember to put in the correct doctype.
I was turned on to it by www.alisapart.com after they redesigned. They have a good arguement there, although I dont believe the part about font-sizes never going below the 9px threshold as described by Eric Meyer, maybe someone else here has some insight.
My current workflow is now a mixture of keywords and px, and it seems to work really well, as long as someone doesn't choose smallest in the font size menu :P…
> What aspect of width does IE get wrong?
> It's not width that's the problem, but min-width and,
> particularly, max-width.
Width *is* a problem in IE. When we give an element a width, that is how wide the element should be, regardless of how wide the content is.
Lets say we have a div with width:400px and border:1px solid #000. Now we stick a 500px wide image in the div. What happens to the extra 100px of the image?
This is controlled by the 'overflow' property. By default we have overflow:visible. This means that the extra 100px of the image should be seen to overlap the edge of the div. Crucially the box, as indicated by the border, should stay 400px wide.
IE gets this wrong. It stretches the box (and its border, background, etc) to contain the overlarge image, so making the width of the box 500px, thereby treating our width:400px as min-width:400px. This has knock-on effects with flowing layout around our unexpectedly wide div.
Jim, you mentioned this:
@env[canvas-width < 500px] #sidebar {
display: none;
CSS3 Media Queries, where you query the capabilities of the device support this and is already supported in Opera 7. For a quick demo, take a look at http://www.virtuelvis.com/gallery/mediaqueries [1]
Your rule would look like this in CSS3:
@media all and (min-width: 500px) {
#sidebar { display: none; }
[1] For the time being, I'm also using this to provide Opera users with an easter egg - take a look at http://www.virtuelvis.com/archives/145.html (How to make CSS visible for Opera 7 only)
Great write-up Dave! I think it's pretty safe to assume that we all wish IE would update their archaic browser and help the web out. I dream of a day when I won't have to spend hours tweaking the positioning of elements, just to have it appear "usable" in IE, when everything looked great in standards-based browsers all along…
There's only so much illogical coding and hacking you can do before your potential is being held-back, and I think we've reached that point with IE.
Some good stuff here, some of the comments worry me a little tho - CSS is a standard and as such it can't be containing rules to specify the browser in which it does something. Print, screen, etc are different formats, but browsers aren't supposed to be - browsers are merely software for displaying content from the internet and as such it is the browsers who should change to support the standards and not the standards who should change to support the browsers. Also the thing about specifying different rules for different width screens is silly too - this is not what CSS is for. We all know the browser support for standards is less than ideal - but with careful planning this isn't really a huge problem, for many things you don't even need hacks (I generally feel hacks should be avoided at all costs since there is no guarantee that a browser wont get an update that suddenly screws everything up coz it lets IE or whatever understand what it didn't used to).
Standards is about having 'a standard' - when you start trying to make this standard recognise different browsers and give them different content or styles you are breaking the standard - sometimes it is unavoidable, but often it is just laziness. I have nothing against CSS distinguishing between screen and print and even mobiles and pdas if the start to do that - but this is fundamentally different from differentiating between browsers - it is not the W3C's job to sort out the inadequacies of the web browsers, the W3C set's standards which are meant to be the future and a better one at that - if you want to moan or suggest solutions direct it towards the browser makers - one day they have to cave…
…one day…
A couple of thoughts about CSS and IE.
The PNG behaviour works fine if I want an image that is a png but I've never managed to figure out how to handle doing proper pngs as backgrounds? It seemed to be somewhat problematic last time I tried.
/* _useragent-hide: IE */
are now going to do the same thing as all the mozilla 1.x users complained about when the "This site is built if IE and you're not using it so it wouldn't look right anyways, go download a real browser and we'll let you in". Browser sniffing never works.
A better solution, in the long run, would be to capability testing. Just as all our javascript now does
I would love to be able to do something like:
@if (understandsselector(::first-child), understandsselector(:nth-child(2n+1)), understandsproperty(border-style:dashed))
is used ONLY if the contents of the () are implemented
only applies to the last @implement
It gets a little wordy but this idea is if the browser understands the argument (correctly) it returns true. It might also be useful to have it return a number, -1 if it doesn't understant, 0 if it understands but incompletely, 1 if it does understand.
The advantage here is that we are testing for behaviour not browsers. I would also add tests for canvas size, windowsize, color depth, perhaps for input type (touch screens would have much larger button targets).
And W3C could reasonably include it in its Recs (is it too late for CSS3?).
> Print, screen, etc are different formats, but browsers aren't supposed to be
Sure, they aren't /supposed/ to be, but in reality, they are, and if a decent solution like this had existed from the start, people wouldn't be scrambling around trying to find hacks.
> Also the thing about specifying different rules for different width screens is silly too - this is not what CSS is for.
I have to disagree with you here too. CSS is about suggesting a presentation. When canvas width is limited, it would often make a lot more sense to use a different layout (for instance, a two-column layout with content on the left and navigation/auxilliary content on the right vs single column with navbar on top and auxilliary content below the main content).
> CSS isn't here to replace javascript or flash, don't go suggesting that CSS should be.
Javascript and Flash have traditionally been used in certain areas (e.g. rollovers) simply because there wasn't another option. Just because they got there first, it doesn't mean that the job is not better suited for CSS.
> Standards is about having "a standard" - when you start trying to make this standard recognise different browsers and give them different content or styles you are breaking the standard
Why do you claim this? From RFC 2616:
> The User-Agent request-header field contains information about the user agent originating the request. This is for statistical purposes, the tracing of protocol violations, and automated recognition of user agents for the sake of tailoring responses to avoid particular user agent limitations.
Apache, for instance, has used this in the past to avoid hanging badly-broken clients. Wouldn't CSS rules to work around Internet Explorer's broken implementation be working under the same principle? What's fundamentally wrong with that approach?
> it is not the W3C's job to sort out the inadequacies of the web browsers
It is certainly a spec. author's job to provide for robust implementations. And the W3C authored the RFC that I quoted above. The CSS specifications in particular include a fair amount of information on what to do when a parser doesn't understand something.
> A better solution, in the long run, would be to capability testing.
That relies on browsers being accurate about their capabilities. For instance, what about the width property? Microsoft does /something/ with it, but it's not to spec. Microsoft could code Internet Explorer to state that it supported the width property, breaking the whole concept, or it could code it to state that it didn't support the width property, which is unlikely at best, and would deprive authors of a valuable property.
There's certainly going to need to be *some* type of capabilities support eventually, though. Eventually you need a way to work with CSS 3, with a fallback if you're working with 2.1 or 2.0.
At the moment, though, with the big hitter out there almost-but-not-quite supporting 2.0, things are awkward. Theoretically, you want to live in a world where you ask "are you 2.0? Good!" and then only ask capability questions about features that are extensions to the spec. As it is, you would have to ask questions about features that are part of the spec (child selectors, etc.), which is no good.
OK, I'm going to stick my hand up and look stupid: What aspect of "width" does IE get wrong?
I really would like to have PNG support in IE, and I'm willing to do this with the filter. However, it seems that IE6/XP only honors this filter once, or it doesn't like the other PNG's, or I'm doing something stupid, or …
From a designer's point of view, PNG's can be a very nice thing to have, but it seems so hard to make IE play nice with them.
See: http://test.nednieuws.com/png/ and set me straight.
charles, funny a with a circle, nednieuws and lastly com.
Here's my e-mail. Didn't read that you don't post it in the link …
I can forgive those that use 76% for IE only. Okay, I can forgive everyone, but as a user who does set a preferred font size, I get annoyed when I visit pages where the font size has been reduced from an assumed default. It's easy to forgive those who pass 76% only to IE because I only use IE to see that my own designs don't break too baddly in it. But hey, you could go the extra mile and pass appropriate an appropriate pt size to IE Win and IE Mac.
hey guys… really good article….
I just want to say, that i've been using conditional comments to target IE specific hacks for a long time now, and it works perfectly and lets my CSS validate without any problems…
Also, It seems that we need a way to mass update all the browsers in the market and make them standards compliant, no matter what version the browser is. I mean, can't someone make a plugin to change the browser's rendering behavior, similar to the plugin used to display flash sites? I think this will solve a lot of the problems with CSS cross-browser compatibility.
One of the things I like about Opera… you can set what fonts and sizes you find most readable, and set it so the websites can't override it.
(18 Arial, if you're wondering. I can read 16 OK, but I like 18 better. Now, I know that's a little larger than most people (I'd expect most people would like around 12-14 instead), but I scratch my head at the apparent common designer choice of 8 or 10. How do they read their sites without magnifying glasses? Especially since I use 1024x768, and they likely have higher resolutions? The mind boggles.)
Granted, it's a little annoying when a layout assumes *one* specific font size, so it's at best mildly broken, and at worst unreadable. (Why is it exactly that when I go to some sites, I see text boxes where only part of the height of the letters is visible, and the spaces between lines is all weird?) But that's what the "turn off CSS" button is for. ;)
Among the many grievances listed, let's not forget about lack of support for mulitple pseudo-classes, as in :visited:hover.
How many times did you have to point out that things "have been standards since 1997" (or "recommendations" as they were known back then) in order for us to get the point that MSIE falls short of supporting all the standards?
How many other browsers supported *all* the standards at the time IE 6 was launched? Frickin' none of them!
You make some decent points, and give some good ideas on work-arounds, but did it occur to you that your target audience probably thinks IE 6 is a PoS anyhow?
Constant re-inforcement of *how* flawed IE is and *how* old these standards are seems a little petty - you're preaching to the converted, I imagine.
Rob – I counted twice.
"How many other browsers supported *all* the standards at the time IE 6 was launched? Frickin' none of them!"
That's a little beside the point. IE6 hasn't seen anything but security patches in two and a half years; the others are under continuous development.
"did it occur to you that your target audience probably thinks IE 6 is a PoS anyhow?"
Some do, some don't.
My method for showing alpha-blended PNGs validates. See it at the URL linked by my name. No scripts, just a little parse bug exploiting.
Has anyone else noticed how the aforementioned min-width/max-width hack works fairly well in the author's example, yet once you add a doctype into the mix IE6 chokes?
If anyone has any other workarounds (that actually work ; )for this problem, it would be greatly appreciated.
I'm going to stick my hand up and look stupid as well: can I assume that IE treats width approximately the same as it does height?
Re: Font Size (again)
Thinking about it further, if you're going to give IE/Win a special setting for font size, why not USE POINTS (pt)? Yes, I know points are bad for screen stylesheets because they render at different sizes on different platforms - I use a Mac and I've seen it; but we're talking about a value to get over IE/Win's font resize bug (or is this a IE problem on Mac too, I usually use Safari). If points are consistent on IE/Win then we're set, just give pixels to standards complient browsers, figure out the point equivilent for IE/Win and use whatever method you want to give IE/Win the point value instead of pixels. It'd be neat if someone would do a good writeup about this with a chart showing pixel to points. Of course I may be forgeting some other reason for not using points in IE/Win.
the main problem i can see with all these new things everybody is talking about is that they wont sort out the problem. The problem is people using old software. How many people still use ie 5 or 5.5? loads. Are any of the css browser sniffing gimmicks going to make these people download mozilla/opera/safari? no. The way i see it is this… Joe Average buys a computer, they use it till it breakes, they get a new one.
Joe Webdesigner buys a computer hates IE, changes browser default, regularly updates, the end.
In other words we're stuck with ie 5/5.5 for the next year or two, IE6 for about the next 4 years (about as long as it takes for the average user to upgrade, i think).
As for missing css features in IE, its got to be… position: fixed; how much easier would it be to have a footer then?!?!?! 3 column layouts would be easy as PIE (get it?) and if the right: 3em would work as well? life would be just dandy. I think that would revolutionise web layout design.
in reply to Chris Vincent
Hi Chris,
maybe i misunderstand you, but you want a "select" ala
if useragent == ie use this CSS
this is possible for IE
see http://www.virtuelvis.com/archives/158.html
I've been using Conditional Comments for a some time and like as mentioned in some previous comments, they are the best way to provide ONLY IE with CSS and JavaScript and anything.
Less known, is that you can also use conditional comments to provide code to EVERYTHING BUT IE.
I also use expression() syntax in CSS properties to put ONLY IE values inside CSS rules. Also someone told me about the underscore trick: certain properties preceded by _ will work for IE, for example _width: 30em; will be ignored by most browsers but obeyed in IE.
Using behavior: url('….'); to add scripting is a great idea too, but don't forget it is not just IE that will support it in the future - it's a working draft or something like that for CSS3.
You can provide link to behaviour files to IE only using one of the tricks I mentioned above.
Enough tricks, back to the issues at hand!
OK it really sucks that IE is not being developed fast enough, but for the sake of the future, lets do everything we can to push MS to fall in line with the newer browser standards.
IE do some great advanced stuff with JScript, CSS typography, scroll-bar colouring and behaviours that are far ahead of the other (newer) browsers. So why can't they focus some effort onto meeting the standards (accurately) in consistency with the other browsers and fixing the many bugs?
I don't know but if you're wondering why they should, it's because the advanced stuff is pretty useless if it only works on one browser, we can't use it fully, just like we can't use advanced CSS fully only IE is the one with support rather than without. Giving us the innovative advanced stuff is great, but we'de rather IE didn't make our lives so dificult working around it's problems - then we might actually have time to investigate the snazzy advanced IE features!
So aside from the comprehensive lists and guides to avoiding IE bugs and short-comings, here's my priorities list of support they don't have…
1) Generated content! Including the ::before and ::after which will allow us to use CSS2 border tricks suck as those shown on A List Apart without adding extra HTML - we can get the CSS to generate the extra containing blocks instead! Now please support it so we can use it.
2) Rules! Advanced selectors are very powerful. I want to use the child/parent, sibling, adjacent, :hover :focus and even the [@attribute=expression] syntax so that I can target elements more specifically and accurately. And that includes combining them (like a[@target]:visited:hover and more).
3) Rendering! The 'position is everything' site mentioned in another comment is a good list of rendering/positioning bugs, but the most important problem for me is the box-model is not correct two respects: one: content edge vs border edge, two: overflow: visible; effecting block size and borders (and hence layout flow) rather than just content-box size. Also white-space-characters often effect rendering/poitioning when it shouldn't. And who can forget lack of position: fixed; and incorrect background-position: fixed;! Fix all these please! Most important is the box model including overflow problems.
4) Support for min- / max- dimensions and symbiotic left AND right combinations will allow us to create layouts that are more flexible and fluid without breaking so easily or compromising usability at extreme resolutions.
5) Strict? Please IE, when in strict mode have a tighter conformance to recommended W3C standards. In short, this requires you to be more accurate and comprehensive in your W3C standards implementation!
6) Definition!
Don't make us leave things to chance by setting a bug to patch a bug. Fighting fire with fire is never a good idea. Let us be explicit - let us chose strict or quirks mode with a meta tag rather than hacks!
(Or is this already possible and I haven't heard?)
7) z-index! Why should a plug-in stay above everything else? Same for UI widgets like combo-boxes? If we cover something up with a layer in front of it, the chances are it was intentional, we know what we're doing you know!! And I'm not sure about the W3C specs but I've currently got trouble trying to put my absolute positioned elements behind others even thought I try to do it explicitly with z-indexes.
8) This one's not really CSS but…
Better Object Orientation in the DOM would be nice, specifically, I'd like to add to the prototypes of default HTML elements. It works in fully DOM compliant browsers I think, - in Mozilla (FireBird) I can add setters, getters, functions, attributes (including default values) and maybe events too. I've been trying to make IMG elements take a hover_src attribute and automatically do mouse-over effects with it, but I got stuck trying to do it in IE, and had to get a script to run on document load to dynamically add the functionality to each element!
(Yes I know I could use a behaviour or expression() for this particular example, but the functionality I described is in my opinion MISSING from IE).
CSS future…
The environment rules are a great idea and they ARE part of what CSS is for - presentation. The @media rules were a great start to providing different CSS to different presentation mediums, and taking user-agents, canvas dimensions and colour depth into account is a highly useful extension of @media.
However, even more useful than using environmental variables to branch code, would be if we could actually use the variables in values! You can do this in IE using expression() syntax, which provides all variables you can access using JavaScript (or Microsoft JScript).
Wouldn't it be nice to have values we can use in CSS that represent the user's screen resolution, DPI, and canvas width and height? As I said you could implement this in IE using expressions. This would be in addition to the @env ideas (or @media extensions) which would still be needed to branch code.
You could take it further with user preferences that we can access…
What if there was a standard way to store you preferences for presentation, that CSS could check up on and use as values or to branch the code?
Imagine Joe Bloggs is colour blind and has low light sensitivity. He recorded it in his profile that we can access through CSS. Now we know, we can provide a colour scheme with better contrast and clearer text (etc) which we wouldn't normally do for 'normal vision' users because it would look too bright and possibly ugly.
Just a thought really but wouldn't it be useful if we didn't have to guess any more?
We can already use system colours as values in CSS, but only for colours. So you could use them to get a colour scheme the user can use, but it's not ideal and it's not enough.
Those of us that set a preferred text-size can get annoyed at sites that change it, but most people don't set a preferred size and are grateful that the page has been set up with pleasingly sized text. Imagine if you could do a simple check in your CSS to see if the user has set a preferred size and then either honour their choice, AND provide a size for users that haven't chosen one already!
This user profile idea is analogous to ICM Colour Profiles that help user-agents adapt to accurately reproduce colours on varying pieces of hardware.
I was also going to suggest min- / max- font-size, but I'm sure it wouldn't be long before that was abused to fix font size to exact pixels!
When is CSS going to provide block-align? and content-align?
I want to specify a block should be centred in the page, this is very common and very easy with layouts! We need block-align!
I also want to specify what happens to content alignment when the user changes text-size, I have buttons that are a fixed block size with a background image, but the button caption is made of text in order to allow users to resize it. Unfortunately it gets hidden (in Mozilla FireFox) because when u resize the text it overflows toward the bottom-right of the screen. IE is better in this respect because the text resizes and stays central within its containing block, meaning the text can grow more without overflowing. We need content-align (or text-align-vertical).
We also need more control over what parts of the layout should be flexible and stretchable. Using percent% units is not good enough, min-/max- might do a good job (but I haven't tried that as IE doesn't support it), and symbiotic left and right positions doesn't work with position:static; elements.
Sorry for such a long comment, but I hope you all damn well read all of it! :)
Hmm, sorry, but the min-width trick mentioned in the article really doesn't emulate min-width. Standard-compliant browsers make the div 100% unless 100% is less than 700px, at which point they make the div 700px exactly. But in IE, you get a div that is always 700 pixels, except if non-breaking content larger than 700px is placed in it. Even so, the div does not resize with the browser window as it should. It is never 100%. So, this trick is really more of an emulation of display: table-cell. It does not emulate min-width.
A technique to create simple simple PNG alpha transparency in IE while allowing for higher quality transparency in other browsers with no hacks whatsoever:
Totally classic - had to switch to IE from Firefox to get this comment posting mechanism to work. Firefox is a great browser but I guess it still has a few rough edges.
Conditional comments have also proven to be a great tool for me — they are great for creating IE specific stylesheets, which from what I have seen here seem to be an absolute neccessity.


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