"Audible officially announced today that audible.com, its spoken audio service, is now available on Apple's iTunes and iPod. Audible.com features audio editions of books, newspapers, magazines, radio programs and original shows. Users can download audio for desktop playback, CD burning, or transfer to their iPod."

Okay, too interesting to pass up. New customer, now. Cool!

But what's up with Audible.com's use of Javascript for every link? The links all look like
javascript:linkThis('/store/myLibrary.jsp')

This is needlessly inconvenient and annoying (AFAICT it makes opening links in new Mozilla tabs impossible); it flies in the face of Mark's weblog accessibility counsel:

"The scourge of web design is the "javascript:" link, a pseudo-link that executes a piece of Javascript code when you click on it . . . Why is it a problem? Because 11% of Internet users don't use Javascript for one reason or another, including many disabled users whose browsers simply don't support it. These pseudo-links won't work for them; use real links instead."

I added this extra step to my May 11 post called Kill the font cache to resolve font problems.
9:10:48 PM |  See also macosx macos9 fonts   

Here's what I just sent on their .Mac feedback page.

Keep basic set of services free

I understand needing to charge for the full range of iTools->.Mac services. But since iTool's inception, I've ~never used any of its services except my Mac.com email account. So I know .Mac absolutely will not be worth $99/year to me. Changing my mac.com email address at all the places I've used it will, however, be a major PITA.

I strongly believe you need to implement a free Lite version of .Mac that includes, at minimum, the POP email account. You then have a [chance] of wooing people to upgrade later, whereas now you're just pissing off existing customers, mostly eliminating the possibility that any of us will ever buy the full .Mac service.

Thank you. Mike

Of course, after I sent this, I now see cooler heads (like Bill and Chris) assessing the total .Mac service as a bargain. Hmmm.
3:29:08 PM |   

How much downside would there be to having the main blog page be an activeRendered outline instead of conventional posts?
12:37:35 PM |  See also activerenderer opml