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Semantics and Bad CodeAugust 26, 2003
Jason Kottke has written a thoughtful piece on the difference between standards and semantics, and if you're just learning this stuff by way of my site (heaven forbid) or some of the many others out there, it's worth your time to read it and consider his points.
Let me start out by saying that Jason is absolutely correct. You are allowed to use
<font> tags in your valid XHTML. You are allowed to continue designing with tables. As long as you lowercase your tags and watch your nesting, there is nothing stopping you from building your XHTML sites without a lick of CSS.
But if this is all you're doing, you are like the driver of the VW Beetle carefully pulling to a stop at the light, failing to move for the Mack truck barrelling toward him at 120km/h. Sure he's following the letter of the law, but the light was put there for his safety. He's completely missing the spirit in which it was written.
The W3C has a commitment to backwards compatibility. XHTML is meant to work back to 4.x and older browsers. (Which is debatable given the 2.0 issue, but please, let's focus.) This requires a certain amount of support for deprecated elements. Tables will always be with us, because they were created for tabular data; you will be able to author table-based sites for years to come. But stay with me now, here's where it gets tricky.
XHTML is a clean slate: it's HTML, but it's XML. It's the best of both worlds, but it's halfway between. HTML has a long and ugly history of visual hacks, proprietary extensions, and general abuse. The browsers that support it are lax, overly tolerant, and encourage sloppy coding. XML, on the other hand, is defined by a tight set of rules; it is structurally complex, rigidly demanding, and doesn't offer any presentation cues whatsoever. It is completely reliant on external styling, and in this case that styling happens to be CSS.
The move from HTML to XML requires a huge shift in developer mindset. There are a lot of obstacles to overcome yet, not the least of which being solid browser support. We've only started down the road, and XHTML is how we'll get there. Here's the path, in 3 steps:
- XHTML allows for easy introduction to proper coding methods by weeding out bad techniques, while requiring no more than a simple change in syntax. Drop your tags' case, watch your nesting, and close everything. Easy. The first step is one which most are willing to make because it requires the least.
- Once developers latch on to this, they will realize sooner or later that the next step is to move toward a separation of content and presentation. This is where most are stuck today, and until the baseline browser moves up a generation from 5 to 6 (or 7), there will generally be dissent and lack of cooperation. Some are aware of this step, some aren't, but it's the next big paradigm shift and it has already started happening en masse.
- After making the prior transition, the next step is full-on XML rendering, which is going to be a real doozy. Validating only your home page and allowing lax code on other less-prominent pages is a practice that will have to stop. What happens when the switch is flicked between HTML rendering (which, chances are, is how your site is being parsed right now) and XML is that if you have an error in your code, just the slightest little bug, your site won't render at all. You will see a happy little error message, and that will be that until you fix it. Seems a bit harsh doesn't it? Well, consider that programmers have been dealing with compile errors from sloppy code for decades; welcome to their world. Not only does your own code have to pass muster, but code from third parties and external sources must play ball too. This one will take years, folks.
Standards, as Jeffrey Zeldman notes in the highly recommended Designing With Web Standards, are a continuum. You've gotta get on the bus sooner or later, but once you do there are a lot of stops along the way. You've made the transition to XHTML? Great! How's your separation of content and presentation coming along?
Don't stop with the easy stuff, this is one rabbit hole that goes real deep.
You've got help along the way - hey, I'm just finding out about this stuff myself. I don't have all the answers, but the more I read the further I go into Wonderland. There are a lot of very knowledgable authors publishing on the subject, and as long as you keep learning, sooner or later we'll all get there.
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Lots of good comments here, but I think you have missed the point that XHTML is not "HTML in XML." XHTML as it is now is simply the foundation of the next generation of web pages. Ones with embedded SVG, audio links, meta information, etc. The W3C is just testing the waters, getting people to think in XML, letting browsers catch up, and then all these good things will come.
Well said. It's going to take a long time but we'll get there. Of course the more people who are convinced to use a safe, stable and up to date browser the better.
I'm of to convert some more, have fun.
"What happens when the switch is flicked between HTML rendering and XML"
i would posit that, as long as there are any major (read: generating income and/or owned by large corporations etc) sites out there which do not use clean xhtml, there will not be a "switch" to anything. even after the majority of the web has transitioned to xhtml, there will still be backwards compatibility requirements.
what i could imagine happening, however, is the creation of completely mew browsing paradigms, new software that may or may not look like a traditional browser, which leverages the strengths of xhtml (with all the rich possibilities on the horizon with xforms and co.). or perhaps hybrid applications which switch from modular xhtml/xml to "quirks mode" style html (not just in their rendering, but in the whole way a document is treated and processed).
yes, it will be a long process, requiring years…and by the time we think we're done the standards will - as you touched on - already have evolved into something completely different.
however, the benefit of moving to clean xhtml/xml will be that then, hopefully, any valid documents will be easily (?) convertable programmatically to whatever the new standard may be. heck, you can already go a long way with XSLT today…
that's were the strength of xhtml lies, in my opinion…it makes content far easier to repurpouse and transform compared to traditional tag-soup.
This article explains the principles behind XHTML perfectly. This really is one everyone interested in standards should read.
What are your thoughts on full-on XML rendering though? The advantage of the web is that any man, woman or child can make a webpage. The ease of HTML (and XHTML) are the reason for this freedom. Will the introduction of XML reduce accessability to the Web in terms of writing pages? As you said, any error will make the page unrenderable. This obviously makes it tougher on the casual designer.
Are we to rely on the implementation of XML web editing tools? FrontPage-Xml? I know I'm looking far into the future here…
HTML is flexible. More flexible than it should be, but it is this flexibility which has allowed it to grow at the enormous rate it has over the last decade. The internet never would have expanded as it has if the code required was as strict as C++ or Java.
And what is to happen to the reems of information that has been put in place in badly rendered sites over the history of the net? The fact that the site has been inexpertly created does not mean that it's information is not valuable.
Just some thoughts…
Why not just write clean HTML, with all tags lowercase, nested properly, and closed, and content separate from presentation? Then you don't have to deal with the mess that is Appendix C of XHTML1.0…
Eric - that's the 'Why', as in, 'Why are we moving to XML anyway?' There are benefits for doing it, but so far it's gone unexplained why shifting to an XML-based web is desirable. I guess it's assumed to be obvious; thanks for pointing out that it's not.
I think the idea of css and xml is great, but web designers should know that there are things which presently are a real pain or impossible with css, which are easy with tables. To not use tables is to limit yourself with web design. Certainly you know this, and css proponents know this, but encourage people to use css exclusively. Fact is designing now is no less of a big hack than it was several years ago, if you want to go beyond columns of text. css is a great additonal tool is all, which makes doing borders, padding, and margins easier, and formatting text and backgrounds easier. People should not be given the impression otherwise. If you read a lot of css books and material people are encouraged to go all css. That is a bad idea if you are a designer, imo. Maybe I'll come out with a book on how to convert an all-css site to tables…
In other words a mix of tables and css is the best for me now, but I had to figure that out after trying to go all css, after reading all the religious arguments. People look for a black and white solution I guess. That would be nice.
I'm inclined to think that this shift will not negate HTML, nor will it make the "next generation" browsers stop rendering badly coded sites. What I do see, though, is the possibility that this will cause a much needed casm (in my opinion) between the "real deal" web designers/developers and the casual "I want to show grandma pictures of her grandkids" designer/"developer". Right now, employers often can't tell a coding "rocket scientist" from a coding "kid with a chemestry set". This shift will make a nice clean separation.
XML- either you code right, or you go home.
HTML - <sarcasm>you need to code this? I thought that's what Word–> save as HTML was for! </sarcasm>
there's much more to the subject than you guys are hitting here. first of all, dave, a few things you say are flat inaccurate:
1) "You are allowed to use tags in your valid XHTML" - not true in STRICT XHTML DTD…which is what a developer should probably try to achieve if they're writing XHTML (unless they have to use TRANSITIONAL DTD)
2) "if you have an error in your code, just the slightest little bug, your site won�t render at all." That was true years ago - and theoretically that's how a standards-compliant browser is _supposed_ to react to invalid XHTML. But in practice modern browsers are still parsing and rendering bad XHTML (I think they are just falling back on HTML parsing)…
3) "[XHTML is] the best of both worlds, but it�s halfway between." No, it's not "halfway between"…XHTML is XML through and through. It's resemblance to HTML is there only so the community could hit the ground running with this new dialect…
And while it's true the W3C is committed to backwards-compatibility, that is a secondary goal with respect to XHTML. In fact, the XHTML spec is more concerned with fowards-compatibility since it looks towards devices like mobile phones, or bluetooth enabled gadgets - and attempts to build a spec those cutting-edge browsers can utilize.
And I can speak from experience, if you code an XHTML/CSS site for standards-compliant browsers - you will have a big headache trying to make the site render correctly in Netscape 4.X. That browser sucks (=chocked full of bugs) and should be buried by the community (AOL did why can't we?). For example, Netscape 4.X often drops CSS for no apparent reason. Or take the proprietary LAYER tag for example, and the lack of support for SPAN/DIV elements (which are crucial for heavy CSS layouts). Netscape 4.X just doesn't cut the standard-based muster and should be completely abandoned - to the chagrin of all 486 users - and to the delight of web developers across the globe.
anyway coding in XHTML/CSS requires a new approach to web site development. you'll find that as you code XHTML you will learn new tags that you never existed. you'll learn principles about HTML, such as "block" and "inline" elements that have always been there - but you never knew about. regardless of what J Kottke says - you'll learn about making semantically correct code as well as syntactically correct code. this will make the content on your site(s) more accessible, more portable to other devices, and easier to distribute to other publishers. On top of it the QA cycle for browser compatibility will be greatly reduced - and what developer wouldn't want that!
The world of XHTML 1.0/1.1 is still unclear. Even (almost all) the X-Philes are still violating the specification (off course a lot less the i.e. microsoft.com). But at least XHTML document are convertible, with XHTML1.1 or XHTML basic you can use modules and switch to XFrames/XForms easily. Or if you are some math/physics guy you could code MathML. This isn�t possible with HTML, not that easy and backwards/forward compatible and above all accessible.
I can't agree completely that XHTML is a "clean slate". It is just a reformulation of HTML using XML's rigour. But that's fine, I think, and it will form the basis of the Web for many years to come, regardless of other XML-related developments. Browsers will continue to support HTML as well as add and improve support for newer, shinier Web technologies.
There is a need, though, to keep the notions of markup validation and robust document structure together in the minds of new (and not so new) Web designers, not as ends in themselves nor as sticks to beat each other over the head with, but as methods of ensuring that content is available and comprehensible to as many people as possible.
I've often wondered about the ability for the everyman to continue creating websites, as we more more towards a XML world. It concerns me. However, I always look at the programming world – remember when ANYONE could write a program? Remember when we did it in school? My personal favorite was:
Anyway, the point is that this has happened before, and we got through it. Still, it concerns me. What I hope will happen is that HTML will be frozen at some point. Or maybe even parred down, and then frozen. Then, average Joes and janes who want to create a personal site can use the relativley simple HTML to make a relativley simple page. If they grow out of it, they'll just have to learn XHTML or XML. It's an option, anyway.
I also think that CMS systems are key here. Something like TypePad, LiveJournal, etc. will keep the everyday person able to have a voice. We need CMS systems like those that aren't so blog-oriented, though.
There's nothing about the future that will prevent ordinary folks from creating crappy web pages with their family pictures…Frontpage is still going to exist (God help us all…) as will other WYSIWYG editors. And browsers, even good, forward compatible ones, will still render old tag-soup pages.
This doesn't make the web less accessible. Errors will make the page unrenderable, unless the errors are in HTML 4, for example. There is no browser, even the really compliant ones, that will refuse to render the billions of non-compliant web pages in the tag-soup world.
There are good architects in the world, but you can still buy land and build a really ugly house with a really bad floor plan. But those in the know can tell the difference between the good and bad architecture.
I think Jai is right on that the chasm will be more defined, and this will be better for the entire web community.
That's a good point Jeff, as we move farther and farther away from Grandma's HTML, CMS's will, in a way, be the bridge for the common folk who couldn't care less about this discussion we all enjoy having so much. Today, web-based CMS's mainly deal with blogs because that's the obvious starting point; 90% text, a header, a footer, a sidebar - it's easy to control that type of layout with simple textfields and checkboxes. The challenge will be making an attractive, fast, usable, web-based CMS that could control a university's site, or a small business, etc. There's a lot of functionality questions with something like that (how would Grandma design the templates? how would she add a section?) that I don't believe TypePad or TextPattern have even begun answering. But, I guess we should just be patient. First the blogs, and then … THE WORLD!!!
this kottke article is generating a lot of buzz.
i have already seen it mentioned on several sites this morning.
Re: XML and amateurs.
I touched on this in my DMXZone interview - http://www.dmxzone.com/showDetail.asp?TypeId=28&NewsId=5442&LinkFile=page3.htm
To quote myself:
"Services have been filling this gap for years. What we can't lose sight of is in publishing HTML, you first have to grasp FTP and directory structures. This in itself has been a significant barrier to entry, and most amateurs never bother. Web sites like Fotki and Kodak's Picture Playground offer a solution for photo storage. Now that weblogs are the Big Thing, all-in-one services like BlogSpot, TypePad, and AOL Journals will continue the trend."
Patrick - the metaphorical switch is a site-specific difference in rendering mode. Some browsers (Mozilla) are fully capable of native XML rendering - but you have to turn it on. This is accomplished through special attention to MIME types.
Anne - " Even (almost all) the X-Philes are still violating the specification" - how? By serving XHTML 1.1 as text/html to IE and lesser browsers? A necessary evil, and the alternative - destroying backwards compatibility - is a silly purist ideal that doesn't solve any real world problems. Not that serving XHTML 1.1 does in most cases, but I digress.
free wrote: "That was true years ago - and theoretically that�s how a standards-compliant browser is _supposed_ to react to invalid XHTML. But in practice modern browsers are still parsing and rendering bad XHTML (I think they are just falling back on HTML parsing)�"
I think you need to get your facts straight before you start telling people that they are "flat inaccurate". In point #2 Dave specifically stated: "full-on XML rendering" which implies sending out documents with a proper "application/xhtml+xml" MIME type and not "text/html" in which case a single mistake results in an error and the page doesn't render. These "modern" browsers you are referring to aren't "falling back on HTML rendering" but simply rendering the documents as HTML because they have a "text/html" MIME type.
Back to the tables argument again? Tables are called Tables because they should be used for Tabular Data. Sure, you COULD use them for layout, but it makes more sense to code your conent separate from your design. It's not Gospel, but it mat as well be- it makes more sense and is far more flexible than table based layouts. Here's a challenge for you "Anon"- take the CSS zen garden and make it table based. See how far you get. Trust me, it's not worth the time.
But I'm not dissing tables at all. Tables are the PERFECT solution for tabular data. CSS doesn't fly when it comes to these applications.
But for flexibility in design… tables don't cut it.
Jai: "[CSS-P] makes more sense and is far more flexible than table based layouts."
While you are correct and I completely agree that tables shouldn't be used for layout purposes but instead to display tabular data, Anon's point:
"but web designers should know that there are things which presently are a real pain or impossible with css, which are easy with tables"
His point is very, very true. There are certain limitations with CSS (at the moment) not only in terms of browser support for the recommendations but also in terms of the recommendations themselves. There are issues with centering horizontally + vertically on a page in CSS which is a piece of cake in table-based designs. There are issues with positioning objects below other objects when they are absolutley positioned (trying to create a footer below a 3-column layout that doesn't result in overlapping, for example) and, of course, let us not forget general browser bugginess like floats and fixed positioning in IE.
CSS, as it stands, works very well when laying things out horizontally across a page, but there are some very real limitations to vertical layout.
Now I'm not talking about that IE thing that's not us, that's the browser. It's about some hidden specifications:
First time a saw that page I confused SHOULD with MUST. If it was MUST it was a bigger problem (I'm talking about the xml way to include style sheets). But then again, using the correct mime-type is also specified as "should": http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/#summary
A good thing of uncovering those "hidden" specifications is that we get to know what we have to do to validate against them.
Besides that we may validate our XHTML and CSS, but we never can follow the spec to the letter I think. Only the abbr and acronym are so difficult sometimes to separate. And if you all did that correct you always have the accessibility guidelines to fail on.
"if you have an error in your code, just the slightest little bug, your site won�t render at all."
As much as I'm happy with progress in standards, I don't believe browsers should ever behave like that.
A validator's job is to validate against a standard. It gives pass/fail grades
A browser's job is to do its best to render markup–even when that markup is broken. It can give warnings, or create goofy-looking layout. Basically, it can grade however it wants.
These two concepts should be kept separate.
Sure, you can have a browser that validates. But its main function (displaying stuff) shouldn't be dependent on the validation.
You are talking about HTML this is not the case in XML.
You think it is a disadvantage but in fact it is not. If it is send as XML the browser only have to think right or wrong and not: "how do I fix this mess", this will result in a much faster browser experience.
Besides that the errors are quickly noted by the authors of the site, which is a good thing IMO.
"this will result in a much faster browser experience."
That's not a huge consideration in real terms surely. My "browser experience" is limited by my 56k modem bandwidth.
Once I get a larger bandwidth, the browser delay will still not be noticable. I mean the speed with which a browser renders a page is negligable in terms of time taken to download the page, etc…
It's a lot more fun than "click here"…
Seriously, I agree it is not good practice for accessibility. I think that in a forum like this, it is interesting and I enjoy exploring the links. To the uninitiated, I think it would probably be extremely confusing.
In fact, the reason for not using "click here" is to make the subject of the link the point of attention, not the way that it is arrived at (and not all users click!). The action is not important, the content is.
In this light, the "some" "of the" "many" thing is the same violation. The text of the link should not have higher importance than the link destination.
I wouldn't use this technique on anything other than this sort of web forum - even I look at my status bar to see where the link will take me before I click it.
Jakob would not be happy with you, Dave… ;)
I believe that one thing that will make CSS a better styling language (e.g., making the common footer-below-3-column-layout easier to do) is to push for the adoption of CSS-based websites. As more and more people use CSS in their sites, then there will be an impetus to improve the succeeding versions of CSS. If we all stick to table-based layouts just because many popular layout designs are easier to do with it, then there would be no reason at all to improve CSS.
To those talking about how tables allow things CSS doesn't allow: Design is _always_ going to be limited by many variables.
Yes, there are a few things that CSS doesn't do well. However, my site has a footer at the bottom that doesn't overlap anything, and is done totally with CSS. It is possible. Even if something isn't possible, I choose to limit myself to CSS because the benefits of this far outweigh a table-based layout. I maybe can't do the exact same things that I could with tables, but I can do new things, and some limitations often allow creativity to be at its best.
"Here�s a challenge for you �Anon�- take the CSS zen garden and make it table based. See how far you get. Trust me, it�s not worth the time.
But I�m not dissing tables at all. Tables are the PERFECT solution for tabular data. CSS doesn�t fly when it comes to these applications.
But for flexibility in design� tables don�t cut it."
Actually, for flexibility in design, dogmatism doesn't cut it. I tried to make the point as diplomatically as possible but someone was bound to jump up and down I guess.
Now, when I wrote my comment, I had never seen the css zen garden. After writing it, I discovered it. What a great resource! But it doesn't change my opinion. And my opinion is beware of those preaching an approach to design as the one true way.
But I admit those who encouraged me to push the limits of css are responsible for the css skills I do have - and I would be almost incapable of working without css. So the enthusiasm is great.
It is arguable that almost all data, or "content" as it is often called, is "tabular" if you're getting it out of a database (you are aren't you?) and putting it on web pages. But I know what you mean and it's a useful distinction. In fact it's sort of the key to the solution I've found for a particular database driven site - the tables are almost part of the data, and are then styled by css. Again, I found this by first doing as much as possible with css. But it's nowhere near the ideal, and it is a worthwhile cause.
Talking about semantics, I am thinking of one more aspect, which some people seem to have missed. I was told not to use "Click Here" kind of phrases for links. On the same point, I'd like to draw your attention to the set of links at the top of this page:
"if you're just learning this stuff by way of my site (heaven forbid) or some of the many others out there, it's worth your time to read it and consider his points."
Does this link text "some", "of the", "many"… make any more sense than "Click Here"?
Instead of doing this, shouldn't we rather use citation style used in printed technical papers:
"some of the many others out there [StopDesign, SimpleBits, …]"?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but FONT tag it's deprecated since HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 Transitional it doesn't support it.
I read this post and thread earlier in the day and, after pondering it, have come to the conclusion that Jai's comment is, with all due respect, 100% misguided.
You will recall that he said that XHTML hopefully will "cause a much needed casm [sic] between the 'real deal' web designers/developers and the casual 'I want to show grandma pictures of her grandkids� designer/' developer�. This is a troubling statement, and I hope XHTML and new design patterns are not being implemented for the sake of a web slinger pissing contest, but, rather, to arrive at a simpler, more elegant, more powerful method of creating content for this still emerging medium.
HTML was designed to be usable by everyone, and truly landed very near the mark (admittedly, before "everyone" was onboard and back when the web was pretty straight forward) until the browser wars made the matter overly confusing. If you are a web designer (with the emphasis on "design") then you should be able to appreciate the beauty in making a simple task simple. If Jai's prediction holds true then XHTML will be a complete failure in that it will have neglected to meet one of it's basic goals.
As to Jai's elitist tone, I fear that Grandma's pictures of her beloved grandchildren, Uncle Larry's poetry, and Aunt Gertrude's recipes and all the "amateur" odds and ends that exist are more central to the web than pages about how to make pages and the personal sites of the weenies that make them. Give me one good reason why Grandma shouldn't be able to easily post her pictures? Why does there need to be a more advanced tier of web development? It's freakin' markup, after all, not assembly code! Get yer kicks elsewhere, dood, if the simple, powerful web of the future isn't making you the man! (I heard Chinese algebra is a real bitch! Juggling chainsaws! Breathin' fire! Those'r real tough-like!)
After all, the web is about content, first and foremost. And lots of it! You can use whatever approach you think is best, but you'd best base those decisions upon their own technical merits as I can guarantee you that 99.9% of your audience will never know or care to know just how clever the code behind the content is. And why the hell would they?
Power to the People, Jai!
Noel D. Jackson recoded kottke.org in CSS for him. Time for somebody to eat his own dogfood.
I think that developing as a whole is getting trickier and trickier. Especially since the addition of XHTML and CSS into the melting pot. Furthermore try to explain how to use div's and linking style sheets to set up imaginary boundaries to the non-savvy - weekend developer. You might as well start speaking greek. There is defiantly a steeper learning curve when introduced to such things as opposed to HTML and table tags.
Unfortunately we can abandon almost all hope of Microsoft or any wysiwyg tool rendering semantically correct, XHTML complaint, human friendly code.
I can say for a fact that the general populous of developers worth their salt will start to develop better more accessible websites. But the weekenders will be producing their trash for a long.. long.. time.
please, see my comment #25 at http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2003/08/26/semantics.html


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Military Base Planned for Tiny Japanese Island
A small island is on the frontlines of Japan's territorial dispute with China. A new army base is planned for Yonaguni, 80 miles from the contested islands in the East China Sea. WSJ's Yuka Hayashi reports.
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Program that lot.
Fair enough comments. And certainly at present (or in the next couple of years) it doesn't seem likely that a computer could match a human in situations of the types you mention. But I think the whole point of this debate comes down to - just how "clever" and "self-aware" are computers going to become in the next ten or twenty years? And this is the critical question.
Computers (and electronics in general) are evolving and improving at an unbelievable (and almost frightening) rate. We have gone fron a few transistors in a radio to billions in a computer in fifty or so years - even a tiny mobile phone has half a billion (or whatever - a bloody lot anyhow). Nobody can predict the future - this fact seems to be demonstrated continually these days. But surely the progression in computers would indicate that in ten or twenty years computers will be able to match humans in intuitive, lateral etc. etc. thinking - all the types of novel thinking that humans are good at. As well as this (when it comes to driving cars) a computer will always think logically and not be distracted. For instance it will probably never think to itself "You bastard - I 'll get you for that" - or think to itself at the traffic lights "I'll show this bastard how a proper car accelerates". Of course if computers do become "self-aware" its mind may wander onto thinking pervy thoughts about girl computers.
Or again, maybe computer science will virtually stall and computers never become noticeably more clever or "self-aware" than they are now.
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Not even Billy Cundiff was sure he would play Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts.
After injuring his left calf muscle Thursday and missing practices that day and the next, the Ravens kicker was understandably concerned that he might have to sit. But after testing the leg Sunday, there was Cundiff kicking a field goal and three extra points in a 24-10 win against Indianapolis at M&T Bank Stadium.
"I knew it was going to be a stretch play because I didn't really know how it felt," he said after the game. "But I went ahead and kicked on Saturday, and I felt like it was good enough to play. At this time of the year, it's not always about being 100 percent, just about making sure that I can contribute. And if I can contribute, I'll play."
Cundiff, who compared the injury to a cramp, acknowledged being concerned about the injury. "I've had numerous little things that never stopped me from practicing or playing, but this was the first time I've had something kind of creep up on me and really stick," he said.
The left calf did impact his ability to kick off as each attempt got shorter. After getting just one touchback on four kickoffs in the first half, punter Sam Koch assumed the responsibility in the second half.
Cundiff said barring any setbacks he intends to play next Sunday when the Ravens visit the San Diego Chargers.
"Oh, I'll play. That's for sure," he said. "It's just a matter of seeing how things progress this week."
Flacco achieves franchise first
Less than a year removed from becoming the first Ravens quarterback to throw for back-to-back 3,000-yard campaigns, Joe Flacco established another first Sunday.
With a 17-yard completion to rookie wide receiver Torrey Smith in the second quarter, Flacco became the first quarterback in Baltimore football history to eclipse the 3,000-yard mark in three consecutive seasons. Flacco finished Sunday with 3,122 yards after completing 23 of 31 passes for 227 yards and two touchdowns.
"We did well today," Flacco said of the offense's balance. "We had some success in both. It wasn't like we were getting stoned in the passing game [or] stoned in the running game and had to pick one. We were actually able to be successful in running the ball and in throwing the ball, and we did both of those."
Torrey Smith ties rookie record
Smith continued his impressive rookie campaign by tying Jamal Lewis for the most touchdowns by a rookie. Smith tied the franchise record when he caught an 8-yard pass from Flacco on the Ravens' opening possession.
Smith, who has six receiving touchdowns, ranks second among all NFL rookies in that category to the Cincinnati Bengals' A.J. Green (seven).
"I thought I had a good shot at getting the ball," Smith said. "So I just ran the route to the corner, and Joe made a great throw."
Flacco gets away with one
Flacco was intercepted in the fourth quarter, and he was nearly picked off in the second. That potential pick could have changed the outcome.
With the Ravens leading 10-0, and the offense driving into Colts territory, Flacco dropped back on first-and-10 from the Indianapolis 25 and tried to connect with Dennis Pitta, who was crossing the field right to left. Indianapolis free safety Antoine Bethea appeared to sniff out the play, but he dropped an interception that could have turned into a game-changing touchdown. Three plays later, running back Ray Rice rumbled 6 yards to extend the Ravens' lead to 17-0.
"If I would have caught it, I would have been off to the house, but you have to finish those," Bethea said. "That play right there was big. It could have changed the game. They went in and scored. It was a big play. I should have had it."
Lewis sits out fourth straight game
Ray Lewis missed his fourth consecutive game because of a turf toe injury on his right foot. Dannell Ellerbe made his third start in four games at inside linebacker.
Cornerback Chris Carr (back) also did not play, sitting out his third straight game.
The Ravens also deactivated wide receivers LaQuan Williams and Tandon Doss, nose tackle Brandon McKinney, rookie running back Anthony Allen (hamstring) and rookie linebacker Chavis Williams.
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|Norfolk County, MA courthouse dome
The court officer went to a great deal of trouble to explain what was going to happen and why. We were even treated to a video that explained the purpose, importance and history of jury duty.
I learned that the first African Americans in Massachusetts served as jurors in 1860 (no mention, though, that this right was likely taken away from them some years later). I also learned that women did not become jurors until 1950, thirty years after winning the right to vote.
Most of my time on jury duty was spent waiting and reading. I passed the time reading the recently released Witchcraft Prosecution: Chasing the Devil in Connecticut by Richard G. Tomlinson. This book explains the history of witchcraft in Connecticut from 1642 to the early 1700s.
This books falls right on the heals of my reading The Naked Quaker: True Crimes and Controversies from the Courts of Colonial New England by Diane Rapaport.
I couldn't help but reflect on the importance of court activities and their future role as historical documents. The court records from the 1600s provide insight into a time period that seems distant and far removed from today. Reading the witch trial records from the 1600s made me realize just how similar we are in regards to aspects of human nature such as greed, jealously, fear, sexuality and power. When you read between the lines of the witch trials you quickly come to understand that they had more to do with these items that they did with witches.
Like a twist in a bad movie, the court officer said she was going to release us mid-morning only to return to and notify us that they were impaneling the entire jury pool. So off we went to the courtroom.
It was very interesting to hear the judge, meet the lawyers and to see the representatives for the plaintiff and the defendant in this civil case. The judge explained to us what the trial was about and then asked us a number of questions.
I have to admit that I was glad that the jury was filled before they called my name. Though I greatly appreciated the insight into how Americans courtrooms work, especially considering that I was studying 17th century court records simultaneously. I really made me consider how our actions of today would be the historical records of tomorrow.
Being in a courthouse was a really wonderful backdrop for reading early American court records. While the book is interesting enough on its own, it sure made it a lot more fun.


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The inspiration for the "Amish Impressions Zig Zag" quilt by Sujata Shah came on a stormy day in the summer of 2010. The original idea for the technique used in this quilt was developed back in 2004 after the Gee's Bend quilts became popular and Sujata was inspired to explore Improv quilting. Sujata's quest for making organic and fluid quilts led her to develop this unique Improv technique. In 2009 she made the first version of this quilt made with prints.
In the summer of 2010, with both her boys home from college, Sujata and her family experienced a severe and memorable thunderstorm. On that afternoon as the day turned into night, the storms got so bad that the power went out. The lightening was intense and the rain was pouring as if the sky had fallen apart. The storm that night inspired the colors and pattern of the "Amish Impressions Zig Zag" quilt.
If Sujata had to put a title to herself as a quilter, it would definitely be an Improv Quilter. Most of her inspiration and influence comes from antique quilts and cultures from around the world. She finds a lot of similarities in Amish and Indian style of quilting. They both are bold, colorful and simple. She is originally from India and it was natural for her to combine the two cultures that used very few tools to create this art. Her quilts are also heavily influenced by African art and textiles.
You can find Sujata on her blog at therootconnection.blogspot.com/ and on flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rangolidesigns/.


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A growing number of families in the US are struggling to put food on the table as poverty rises in major cities, a new survey showed yesterday.
The US Conference of Mayors' hunger and homelessness survey found all but four of the 29 cities surveyed reported an increase in requests for emergency food assistance during the period between September last year and August this year.
Half of those asking for emergency food assistance were people in families, while 26 percent were employed. The elderly accounted for 19 percent, with the homeless making up the remaining 11 percent.
It is the latest survey to underscore the magnitude of the damage inflicted by the 2007 to 2009 recession.
Though the downturn ended two-and-a-half years ago, the recovery has been very slow by historical standards as households struggle to repair their balance sheets and unemployment is at an uncomfortably high 8.6 percent.
About 24.4 million Americans are either out of work or underemployed, and employment remains 6.3 million jobs below its level in December 2007 when the recession started.
According to government data, a record 49.1 million Americans were living in poverty last year.
During that period, the number of households depending on food stamps — subsidies that help people cover the costs of groceries — soared 16 percent to 13.6 million.
The mayors' survey attributed unemployment, poverty, low wages and high housing costs as the main reasons behind the surge in demand for food assistance.
It found there was a 10 percent average increase in the amount of food being distributed by the cities and just over two-thirds of the cities reported a rise in the quantities they were handing out.
About 71 percent of cities said their total budget for emergency food purchases had gone up. Across the 29 cities, 27 percent of the people requiring emergency food assistance did not receive it, the survey found.
In 86 percent of the cities, food pantries and emergency kitchens had to reduce the quantities of food people could receive per visit or the amount of food offered per meal.
None of the cities expected demand for food assistance to decline over the next year. Many anticipated a drop in the resources to provide food assistance, citing cuts in government funding and declining food donations by the public.
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Note: This product does not include an XBee module. It is a carrier board that accepts XBee series 1 or series 2 modules and provides an RS232 DTE interface.
This is a DTE (Data Terminal Equipment) RS232 serial module with a male DB9 connector. You can connect this device to any DCE (Data Communication Equipment) such as Modems or any DCE device equipped with a female DB9 connector. By using a Null Modem crossover cable (see add-on accessories below) you can also connect this module to DTE equipment like a PC.
Using the 990.002 USB XBee Board on a PC and this module on the device, you can easily transform any serial cable into a wireless connection with a maximum speed of 115K Baud.
You can use any of the Series1 or Series2 XBee modules and make a reliable and fast serial network in minutes.
Three useful LEDs show the TX activity of the Board and the signal strength (RSSI). The third LED shows the associated status. You can change the function of some LED in the XBee EEPROM. The feature connector is useful to program the XBee or for powering external 3.3V devices. You can also use this module as serial level converter for 3.3V TTL signals.
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A Tour of Parental Controls on iPhone OS 3.0
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June 26, 2009
Filed under Apple, Daily App Reviews, Devices, Kids, Lifestyle, News, Tips and How-To's, Tips Tricks and How Tos, Utility, iPhone, iPod Touch
Apple's recent release of the iPhone OS 3.0 has brought a lot of new functionality to the iPhone and iPod Touch. We now have the long awaited push notifications, the ability to search our devices (spotlight), as well as copy and paste. However, it has also brought a whole new level of worry for parents.
This new OS allows a higher degree of parental controls and lock outs, which is good. However, with the new parental controls in place, Apple decided they could start releasing more explicit apps in the iTunes App Store. There is a new rating of 17+, which opens the door now for apps containing full nudity and porn to be submitted for sale on iTunes. In fact, one such app was released Wednesday. It was later pulled from the App Store, but not because Apple didn't approve. Rather, it was pulled because the developer's servers were at capacity. [Update: Apple did indeed remove the application in question after they realized the developer had remotely changed the content to include nude photos.] It seems the introduction of these types of apps is imminent.
So, we decided it was high time we got information out there on how parents can keep their kids, and themselves, safe. Enabling parental controls, called "Restrictions," on an iPhone or iPod Touch is very easy.
1. Open the Settings app
2. Tap on General
3. Scroll down the page and tap on Restrictions
4. You will then be asked to setup a four number passcode. Remember what you enter here, as you will need to re-enter the passcode to make changes to parental controls in the future.
5. At the top is a button to enable restrictions. Touch there. Now there is a section for apps that you can choose to allow or block. These apps include: Safari (an internet browser), You Tube, iTunes, Installing Apps, and Location. The bottom section of the screen allows you to block or limit the content that can be viewed on the device. You can allow or block In-App Purchases, block explicit Music & Podcasts, and choose the acceptable rating for Movies, TV Shows, and Apps.
Any content on the iPod or iPhone that does not meet the restrictions you place on the device should simply disappear once you have set the restrictions. After you have adjusted the settings, exit the app. The restrictions will not be accessible again without the passcode you put in place.
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1st Nonjatta Exclusive Bottling: Karuizawa 1996/2013
Today, we're happy to be able to unveil a special bottling selected by and exclusively available through Nonjatta. It is the first in a series of Japanese whiskies featuring artwork taken from the last great ukiyoe artist Yoshitoshi's final series of woodblock prints "New Forms of 36 Ghosts" (1889-1892).
On the nose, you get a wonderfully subtle amalgam of soft fruity notes: strawberry fruiche (a Japanese kind of home-made flavoured yoghurt), apricot butter, melon hi-chew, tinned peaches, dried pineapple and in the background, heather flowers and a hint of marjoram. The palate has some lovely surprises in store: pink grapefruit most prominently, but also apple sauce, peach jam and gooseberries. But there's more: kashiwa mochi (a Japanese sweet rice cake wrapped in oak leaf), baked alaska, pencil shavings, and a hint of sudachi (a Japanese citrus fruit) and pink pepper. The finish is long and lingering… and well, modesty precludes us from raving too much about it, but it truly is a small miracle.
We like to think there is a certain resonance between aspects of the print and the character of the liquid in the bottle. These sort of resonances will be further explored in subsequent bottlings and we invite you to join us in this project. There are 35 more prints, and it's our goal to find the right Japanese whisky to "go with" each and every one of those prints. But let's not get ahead of ourselves - back to our Karuizawa 1996: it's available from our friends at Malt City via this exclusive link. The cask only yielded 140 bottles, so there is a limit of 1 bottle per customer.
We are often placed in a sort of "don't shoot the pianist"-position when we share news of exciting new releases coming out of Japan. Many of them are hard to get for our readers abroad; some are already gone by the time we report on them; others are prohibitively expensive. It therefore fills us with happiness to be able to finally present something that is available, first of all, to you.
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Bravo Stefan, great initiative !
I just ordered a bottle, seems to work smoothly.
Can't wait to try it...
- March 1, 2013 at 6:43 PM
Oups, just forgot to sign my message (first time i leave a comment on your site, of which i am big fan by the way :-))
"Bravo Stefan, great initiative !
I just ordered a bottle, seems to work smoothly.
Can't wait to try it..."
- March 1, 2013 at 6:44 PM
- Stefan Van Eycken said...
Thanks very much for your kind words and your support. We really do appreciate it. Enjoy the whisky... we think it's fabulous. We hope you do, too!
- March 1, 2013 at 6:47 PM
Looks great! Just ordered one!
Stefan, can you tell us whether it is non chill-filtered and without addition of caramel colouring?
- March 1, 2013 at 8:03 PM
- Stefan Van Eycken said...
Thanks for your support, Rogier and good question - I just take these sort of things for granted, but you're right, I should have made it clear that this is straight from the cask - just barrier filtered (to remove bits of wood, obviously) - with no chill-filtration and no colouring whatsoever. I wouldn't dream of putting stuff of this calibre out unless it's NC & NC (non-chillfilitered, non-coloured).
- March 1, 2013 at 8:07 PM
Great! I expected no less of course. :)
- March 1, 2013 at 8:08 PM
Many thanks Stefan!
I have been reading about all the previous releases and it was frustrating that we could not buy but now it is fantastic that we had the ability to do so.
Very keen to hear what you have planned in the future..
Btw, do you now have a better idea of how many Karuizawa casks are left?
- March 1, 2013 at 9:03 PM
- Stefan Van Eycken said...
Thanks very much for your comment. We've got some pretty incredible stuff planned for the future, and will be traveling all around the country in March to make it happen. As far as the number of remaining Karuizawa casks is concerned - yes, I do have a clearer picture now of the situation. I can't say too much without breaking promises - let's just say there are fewer than I thought, which makes them all the more precious.
- March 1, 2013 at 9:07 PM
hi nonjatta team,
so happy to see a new release which is not available when i want to order. placed my order at malt city and they confirmed shipping to germany. thanks so much and looking forward to your other planed releases !!
wolfgang / mannheim germany
- March 1, 2013 at 9:35 PM
- Stefan Van Eycken said...
Thank you so much, Wolfgang. This was one of the main reasons we decided to start this series: to make top quality Japanese single casks whiskies available to our readers, who share our enthusiasm for Japanese whiskies but don't always have easy access to them. We've got some exciting things planned, so keep an eye on Nonjatta! You won't be disappointed - I can assure you!
- March 1, 2013 at 9:50 PM
Is there US shipping? If so, does anyone know how much?
- March 1, 2013 at 10:38 PM
- Nonjatta said...
The USA is one of the few places on earth, they can't ship to. Because of the legislation there.
- March 1, 2013 at 10:41 PM
Well those 140 bottles didn't last long!
- March 5, 2013 at 1:09 AM
- Piet said...
Unfortunately it eventually costed me about €180 = JPY 23,129 after tax and handling where added.
So I am afraid for me this is one time only ;-(
- April 8, 2013 at 8:08 PM
- Stefan Van Eycken said...
Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, that's something Malt City has no control over. When I get bottles sent TO Japan, 1 or 2 bottles (and often as many as 6 bottles) are usually not taxed at all, but it depends on the provider. For example, when I order from LMdW, I always have to pay tax - for some reason - and an extra handling fee. Anyway, I'll pass on this information and see if there's something that can be done to avoid that. It's scandalous that shipping, handling and extra tax is almost as much or more than the actual whisky.
- April 8, 2013 at 8:16 PM
- Piet said...
Well, although the label states "No commercial value for customs purpose only." It also shows "Collectable Glassware" and "Total Value 12600 Yen". But then without this, it could have been opened and valued..... I am still glad to have this one and first bottling !
- April 8, 2013 at 10:28 PM
Hi Stefan,
I'm a relatively new whisky lover who finds your posts very entertaining and enjoyable to read. ABout this bottling, is it still available? And through what channels? I'd love to try it.
- September 28, 2013 at 11:56 AM
- Stefan Van Eycken said...
Hi Cyn,
No, unfortunately this bottling is not available anymore. It basically sold out the day it went on sale.
But keep an eye on our website... we have a second release out now (this will be offered as a lottery!) and there's still time to register. And we've got more stuff in the pipeline.
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