We all know that Netscape 4 was a disaster. It claimed to have implemented CSS1 (at least partially), but failed miserably, even getting the parts they tried to implement horribly wrong. Today, I found a beautiful homage to the horrors of Netscape 4—in haiku.
A brief reminder: don’t forget the great document at “A List Apart” on the proper use of en-dashes, em-dashes and hyphens. But Michael, how can you praise proper typography when your own pages are typographical sinkholes and quagmires? Irony, anyone? Yes, but I’m aware of my failings, which makes me superior to all those other blog-trogs out there who go on making all the same mistakes I do without ever knowing about it. At least, I hope it does.
While we’re harping on the proper use of typographical symbols/objects, I should mention the Apostrophe Protection Society, a small organization dedicated to eradicating a certain despicable behavior. The abuse of the apostrophe (the punctuation symbol [Unicode U+2019, decimal #8217], not the grammatical entity) angers me as much as dangling modifiers. When I was in eighth grade, working on the Yearbook for Irving Junior High, I was silenced in my complaint that the winning yearbook design had the apostrophes on the wrong side of the dates. The theme was something like “Through the Decades” and had 80’s – 90’s on the cover rather than ’80s – ’90s. I still get flustered when I see that Yearbook.
Brad Choate is amazing. He’s got all sorts of MT goodies at his site. Don’t forget to look at the MTMacro plug-in, the MTAuthors plug-in, and the database stuff he does with his gaming pages. [Another MT plug-in essential: MT-search]
I’M NOT ALONE. Well, I might be, because I haven’t actually read this missive yet, but I will, and if it’s what I think it should be, it tells a story much like mine. It’s not a good story, but one to which I feel particularly attached.
FINAL NOTE: Kyle Fischer (with Caithlin De Marrais, whom I LURVE!) will be at the Ottobar tonight. Do not forget. Take earplugs, set alarm, and enjoy life for a few hours. [UPDATE—Caithlin wasn’t there. It was just Kyle and a portable CD player to provide drum loops. There were ten people in the crowd, including me—and the opening bands. Biggest. disappointment. EVER. —Ed.]
NP: Kyle Fischer, Just One More Day
