Samurai7 » Logic http://blog.kuangeleven.net Genuine NetRunner blog Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:19:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Subliminal spam?! http://blog.kuangeleven.net/2006/09/03/subliminal-spam/ http://blog.kuangeleven.net/2006/09/03/subliminal-spam/#comments Sun, 03 Sep 2006 10:22:18 +0000 wakizashi htmllife http://kuangele.setupmyblog.com/2006/09/03/subliminal-spam/ You all probably know about subliminal advertising. For those who don't know about it, it is technique of inserting message, or picture, in commercials. Now, every second of video contains 24-29.97 frames depending of video format (PAL, NTSC). So, basically you can easily insert one frame between those bunch of frames with your message (those who saw "Fight club" movie will know about that ;) ). So, when you are having commercial of e.g 1 minute, you can have 1440-1798.2 frames and about 60 frames of your desired message. Since eye usually cannot detect those frames you don't even see them, but since human brain works much faster than eye, those images are recorded "somewhere" in your brain, supposedly making you think about that message.

So what about email spam and same technique?
Like most of Internet users I receive great deal amount of spam. Today I have opened message, and since lots of them contains images I saw something unusual.Picture is GIF so since it supports animation, same technique is used. It reminds me on a movie "They live" since aliens are also using subliminal messages, with the difference that messages can only be seen with special glasses.  Now I don't know how efficient this is since, you can clearly see sub message, but makes you kinda think about, right ;) ?

Since picture speaks as thousand words, here it is, so check it out. Just save it on Your hard drive, or take a look at it for a few seconds.

subliminal picture

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Well, yes, table eradication is great, do nasty HTML source, no bunch of tr, no calculations how many cells are needed, no nested tables, no confusing colspan, rowspan and who knows what else. When using tables You are also limited with later redesign. Cells are there where they are, and no CSS can help that. Yet, why the stupid question in title then?

Well its actually simple. Accessibility!
NO WAY you will say, since divs+css are probably most accessible combination. Well, actually no. What if you have for example exchange rate list with e.g. 30 currencies? Can You make it as div based, and will it look ok with no CSS?

I didn't think so. :) See, when creating web page, no matter how You hate tables, for some things tables are much better. They have best presentation model, since even without styles applied, you can easily follow table. With div based table, you will get just bunch of numbers and letters, and will probably end up unreadable. So, when comes to accessibility for some reports, exchange rates or similar content, my advice is Go with the tables. Heck, a few table here and there will not ruin your visual identity in a way not formatted divs will to end user.

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