Showing posts with label astronomy sunrise sunset Canada NRC webpage applet DST loc DateTime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label astronomy sunrise sunset Canada NRC webpage applet DST loc DateTime. Show all posts
Friday, April 18, 2014
NRC less-than-smart astro web page
My nomination for the least "smart" web page from a science organization is the solar emphemeris page ( in this case merely sunrise and sunset times ) of Canada's National Research Council.
Not only can this page not divine my location in Canada, it cannot set DST in Canada.
And it does not know today's date, let allowing a click for tomorrow's instead.
Elegant minimalism ? Or just not very smart ?
Yes there's dumber to be found : public agency home pages with no text to select for annotation/clipping (only images, Flash, QuickTime.) When the copyright and contact link are images without ALT text, you know we have reached the illiterate web.
HTML is text ? Wadda concept.
You mean you can set the style of the h1 element ? Cool !
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