I’ll mention up front, though, that, outside Harvard Square metro, Kerstin Goldsmith hollered the following at my retreating back, just as they do in the movies, or perhaps in Peanuts television specials: “You’re getting a hug, Joe Clark – whether you want one or not.”
I note with relief that Kerstin, whose name is pronounced “Chastain,” never made good on her ominous threat.
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.03.03 19:26. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2005/03/03/meilleur/
Especially at the atrocious lunch buffet at the W3C Technical Plenary?
“Aren’t you Tim Berners-Lee?” I asked the man with no nametag who was clearly the inventor of the Web.
He “humorously” denied it, saying he’s actually Tom’s brother.
“I just wanted to thank you for… existing,” I said. But he interrupted my punchline by saying “Oh, you’re not allowed to do that!” and waving me off and backing away.
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.02.28 13:41. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2005/02/28/tbl/
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.02.21 01:03. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2005/02/21/springfieldisforgayloversofmarriage/
Simple: A great deal of the “content” it indexes – chiefly video, but also many newspapers and research citations – could be displayed only if certain rights or payments had been worked out. Owning its own browser, particularly one that works on all widely-used platforms, eases the engineering exercise of such rights/permissions/micropayment scheme.
Hence Google Firefox is quite possibly about rights and payments (that is, digital rights management) rather than commitment to open source or Web standards. (Google has no commitment to Web standards whatsoever.)
In the future, if you wanted
to read an article from the New York Times or the ACM (which, like Elsevier and the other bastards, makes money by charging for research that was already paid for by someone else), or
to watch video whose captions you had just searched
then you might have to use their browser.
For extra credit, ponder the question: Will you be able to watch that video with captions and audio descriptions?
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.02.20 15:56. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2005/02/20/googlebrowser/
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.02.18 14:16. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2005/02/18/runic/
Well, they will admittedly remain shitty for a while, but the end of shittiness is nigh, for I have launched a project that will commission and design and then test a series of fonts custom-engineered for the demands of reading captions and subtitles. This is for real.
Read the new site, Screenfont.ca. If it looks like someone competent actually designed it, that is because someone competent actually did – my esteemed colleague Antonio Cavedoni (op. cit.).
So read and learn and, if you’re a type designer, help us out. For everybody else? Well, my advice is simple: For the love of God stop using Arial.
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.02.15 19:23. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2005/02/15/alfredsson/
