codehesive.com : interaction design, user experience, gaming & miscellany

I’ve been using the Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 for a few days, and have noticed a problem with the Accessible Image Replacement technique from Mike Rundle, which essentially ‘shifts’ the text into a negative area off the screen by using text-indent in CSS. Unfortunately Firefox 1.5 Beta isn’t displaying this in the way current Firefox 1.0+ does (as well as IE6 and Opera 8).
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Microsoft have released Expression – a new suite of creative products to compete with the usual suspects from Macromedia and Adobe. The new web development tool, Quartz, was of particular interest for me.
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The West — the only daily paper (bar sundays) in Western Australia — is now available online in its entirety for $4 per edition (slightly cheaper for bulk subscriptions). So, I can view the online version (using Olive Software’s ActivePaper product) for $4, or buy a copy at the newsagent for $1.20, with change for a coffee. Or, just read the main stories on the site for free. Actually it’s fairly irrelevent as The West is a borderline tabloid anyway — I’d much rather be reading ABC News for local content.

I assume the price is inflated by licensing costs and extra labour involved in getting the online version done. But what logic is there in paying 3 times the price for an online version as opposed to a print copy? I really wonder what the The West Australian’s objectives are with this service. Perhaps they’re not sure either.

Recently I evaluated dozens of open source CMS packages, specifically a PHP/MySQL flavour (good ol’ LAMP). So many either missed the mark or totally overwhelmed it: however, one hit the nail square on the head.
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