Josh’s NEASIST Audio Available
November 17th, 2005
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (59.2MB)
The folks at the New England ASIST Chapter have posted a podcast of Josh’s presentation on Tuesday. You can download it from here.
You can also grab the presentation slides.
Warning: For reasons we don’t understand, it’s 130 mb. While the recording is 2 hours, 22 minutes, Josh didn’t speak for nearly that long. (He’s more concise when he talks than I am.)
Update: We just learned that the reason the podcast is so long is that it has Pete Bell’s presentation at the end. A bonus track?
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November 18th, 2005 at 3:07 pm
Update: I’ve switched the source file to one that I hacked from the original. It is now a leaner 60MB and contains only my talk. If you’re interested in hearing the file with Pete Bell’s talk, you can still download that here.
I was told that they wouldn’t be able to switch the original until next week.
November 24th, 2005 at 9:22 am
Regarding pages 5 to 9 from the PDF presentation, I have found that there are lots of people who consider that using FONT is a disgrace to programminghood
In real life, I have found that using only CSS for formatting HTML is difficult, unmanageable and sometimes even forces you to do horrible hacks.
So, I have finally abandoned the CSS-is-the-start-and-end-of-html-formatting-and-tables-are-bad dinamics and I have resorted to CSS for general formatting and resorted to style attributes for certain layouts that may only occur once in the web application.
And, sure enough, I use plenty of tables for formatting, and they work fine enough for me and for my users. Please notice, they work for my users, my users are happy with tables, so I’m not going to use CSS just because it happens to be the right thing, this a lesson learned by dot-bomb survivors. CSS is fine, but, for me, it can’t yet replace tables in many places.
P.D.: I’m a bit angry about this, because I’m making a website where I have to use CSS for absoluty everything (tables are forbidden!), and CSS is getting all the time in the way, because there places where a dirty hack is actually better than the correct way of doing things.