http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/07/27/software-bug-thwarts-online-journalism-feature/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:36:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/07/27/software-bug-thwarts-online-journalism-feature/#comment-6042 Simon Dickson Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:58:43 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/07/27/software-bug-thwarts-online-journalism-feature/#comment-6042 Anyone looking to do something similar in the citizen journalism context could do worse than post documents they wish to annotate on Flickr.com - the 'note' functionality allows you 300 characters maximum. And it works great on Firefox too. :) Anyone looking to do something similar in the citizen journalism context could do worse than post documents they wish to annotate on Flickr.com - the ‘note’ functionality allows you 300 characters maximum. And it works great on Firefox too.

]]> http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/07/27/software-bug-thwarts-online-journalism-feature/#comment-6026 McChris Fri, 28 Jul 2006 03:47:54 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/07/27/software-bug-thwarts-online-journalism-feature/#comment-6026 I took a cursory look at the page coding for the rollovers, and it appears that Slate is just using alt tags to display the text. Firefox has its problems, but they seem to do a pretty good job of rendering pages in standards-compliant ways. I don't think the alt tag is supposed to wrap text, so Slate probably should have used more complex Ajax-style coding to have more control over how the rollover text displays. I took a cursory look at the page coding for the rollovers, and it appears that Slate is just using alt tags to display the text. Firefox has its problems, but they seem to do a pretty good job of rendering pages in standards-compliant ways. I don’t think the alt tag is supposed to wrap text, so Slate probably should have used more complex Ajax-style coding to have more control over how the rollover text displays.

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