Remember Mark Jen who got fired from Google for blogging? He’s back, working at Plaxo, and on WordPress. Here’s the story of his switch. He has a style switcher that turns capital letters off and on. Hat tip: David via email. ¶
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Roy Schestowitz | April 5th, 2005 @ 12:02 am |
Why do you choose to mention this? It’s a single line of CSS…
Gregory Wild-smith | April 5th, 2005 @ 12:40 am |
Because its a nice application of a simple trick? I’d not seen a simple style switcher for something like that.
Its elegant and silly, but also kind of fun. Not that I’d use it… but I liked it.
Matt | April 5th, 2005 @ 5:03 am |
Because I thought it was funny, one of the things he was criticisized for was his capitalization, of all things.
Roy Schestowitz | April 5th, 2005 @ 5:27 am |
Ahh, okay. I didn’t realise that.
Gordon | April 6th, 2005 @ 4:15 am |
I didn’t realise that either Roy. But hey, if he can’t follow basic rules of grammar then of COURSE he should turn to technology to help him out… (I’m only slightly joking!)
Terry Chay | April 6th, 2005 @ 3:59 pm |
Well actually, it’s a couple lines of Javascript to edit one line of CSS.
Apparently, his posts were always in normal case, but he had a style rule that lowercased them. You can tell this because news aggregators show his articles normally.
You have to read some of his comments to understand the humor in the script. People were flaming him for using lowercase, and then, when he changed it, others were flaming him for “caving in” to the grammar nazi bloggers. Heck, people still flame him over it, which kind of makes me want to mod it so it will write a cookie with your style preference.
Thanks for liking our bit of DHTML silliness. I guess that’s why they pay me the “big bucks”.
Take care,
terry