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Delta and Bolton

Aug 03, 2005 21:59

whoa! Delta Airlines relaunches their website in a standards compliant form! An AIRLINE for goodness sakes. So at this point, almost all of the cell phone providers, a large number of IT companies (Yahoo!, Google), the vast majority of OSS sites and heck, even the major news outlets (CNN, etc) have shown a serious commitment to promoting web ( Read more... )

un, politics, delta, web design, democrats, standards, airlines, republicans

Comments 16

nekokaze August 4 2005, 03:05:47 UTC

Wait Google but not Google?

nekokaze August 4 2005, 03:08:10 UTC

sorry, the first one is Microsoft, the second is Google, ironically enough.

uberjason August 4 2005, 03:15:36 UTC

This is not a politically-loaded question, but just one of curiousity. Questioning. Or something. If the recess appointment is so bad, with bypassing checks and balances and stuff, why does he have the power to do it? It's in the Constitution, written there, isn't it?

lakshigiorgi August 4 2005, 03:18:09 UTC

It was meant so that there wouldn't be long vacancies in important positions while congress was recessing

moki_blog August 4 2005, 16:21:24 UTC

It's been used in the past by a lot of Presidents, apparently the first was George Washington, who appointed the occasionally mentally ill John Rutledge to the Supreme Court. He got booted out as soon as Congress came back in session.

lakshigiorgi August 4 2005, 03:20:08 UTC

what exactly is standards complient?

pokecapn August 4 2005, 05:01:22 UTC

moki_blog August 4 2005, 16:11:54 UTC

When Tim Berners-Lee put together the technologies to make the World Wide Web, he based it on a set of standards. Now that these standards are controlled by the W3C, they can't be controlled by an corporation, etc. This means that theoretically, a webpage coded with standards can be viewed with any browser and show up the same way. HTML is a markup language, so you set what each text block, form, image, etc is by using tags that the W3 has specified. This makes things very easy to process, because all images would be labeled the same way, lists would be labeled the same way, etc. However, during the 1990s, most people tended to ignore standards, and just hack together pages that would kinda work in one browser or another. The result is horrid accesibility problems, where only one browser can be used to access a page. Microsoft used to be the big problem with that, but they've reformed a lot over the last year.

twizmer August 4 2005, 03:25:57 UTC

Frankly, I think Bush's appointment of Bolton has a lot to do with an opinion that being ambassador to the UN doesn't matter a whole helluva lot anyway.
I was dissapointed in him, though.

moki_blog August 4 2005, 16:23:34 UTC

Well, it's good to have a guy with credibility in the post, or one who has good oratory skills (I've seen neither with Bolton) (Ex. Cuban Missile Crisis, where Adlai Stevenson pulled an upset on the Soviets).

uberjason August 4 2005, 12:24:45 UTC

Also, congrats on the new laptop! Mine's a 610. What's the difference between yours and mine? Is it screen size?

Also, what's the story behind the name of Zuikaku?

twizmer August 4 2005, 14:22:44 UTC

I imagine it is a reference to the

moki_blog August 4 2005, 16:18:07 UTC

810 is the 15.4" widescreen with the X600 vid card. Which makes it a lot bulkier than I had expected, which is the one drawback. But, it gets good benchmarks on graphics, which is what I was shooting for, given that my desktop's video card is pretty old.
Otherwise, pretty much the same. Intel Sonoma Chipset, Centrino with Pentium M Dothan 533FSB, etc.

Zuikaku is the name of an aircraft carrier in the old WWII Japanese navy. It was the first purpose built large aircraft carrier that Japan posessed. Built with mobility in mind. My brain revolves too much around military history...