For a while, I was confused as to what the difference between RSS and Atom were when I would sign up for a web feed. Some websites offer users a choice in formatting. A web feed, which is sometimes mistakenly referred to as simply “RSS”, is a standardized method used to syndicate web content. Different services can aggregate many of these feeds. A desktop app like NetNewsWire and web-based services like iGoogle, Bloglines, Google Reader, and Netvibes are common feed aggregators.
Essentially, RSS is the “original” family of web feeds developed throughout the early 00s with the Atom specification being the “fresh face”, offering even more clarity around things like content types and date formatting. So really, there’s no difference that you should be concerned about. Many big sites will only offer their content through RSS 2.0 but Atom is technically the “better” solution going forward.
Credit to the web feed Wikipedia page for relaying most of this pretty useless information.
I code in Visual Studio at work. Dreamweaver is my text editor at home. I finally got sick of looking at the small default code text in Dreamweaver on my Mac. So off I went fishing around in the DW’s preferences. You can find the setting to beef this up under Dreamweaver > Preferences > Fonts. Modify the Code view values and you’ll be good to go.
The default font, Monaco isn’t all that bad but it was time for a change. I’m now at 10pt arial but I will probably end up back at a small monospace face soon (Dreamweaver was onto something when they made Monaco the default).
It felt good to finally change that fucker.
Why do I consistently see Helvetica and Lucida Grande used for body copy on websites? Do these people not have PCs? Am I missing something here? They might look fine on a Mac but they look like doodoo on a PC with browsers that don’t give aliasing.
Look at Apple’s store as viewed in Firefox on a PC:
That looks terrible. Please use Arial or Lucida Sans Unicode so I don’t vomit when looking at your website.
Thanks.
