![]() The reader should recognize the RSS feed within the page and allow you to subscribe.Īlso, all podcasts from NPR and its member stations are available for RSS subscription. To subscribe to a topic or show, paste the URL of a topic page, a program home page, or a story page into your RSS reader of choice. You might find this NPR knowledge base article interesting:Įvery section of npr.org offers an RSS feed of its stories. but as a last ditch effort, you turn off your brain and just type in "download 1-a episode" into google and come up with this link which takes you to a different website (npr.org) which has a list of 1-a episodes (and our friend the "listen" button) but also has a cute little "." button that expands into choices, one of which is "download". So you click the link to the actual episode of the show but once again. But I don't want to "listen" and I don't want to subscribe to anything and I don't use itunes (or anything like itunes). The front page of the website has "listen" links and also a "subscribe to the "podcast"" link. Let's say you want to download an episode of 1-A to listen to on an airplane. īut unfortunately, like almost all media outlets, finding an actual link that points to an actual mp3 file is very time consuming and difficult. ![]() I wish there was a easy-to-find-downloads-of-audio NPR. If the directions seem nonsensical, it's because the default browser UI now hides the menu bar, demonstrating just how obscure this option has become. User-applied styles lived on in various ways: through addons, through alternate user-agents, but tends to be relegated to specific audiences or passionate fans of the capability not a mainstream phenomenon.ĮDIT: To experience this blast from the past, Mozilla has a sample page. Outside of hobbyist circles, page authors stopped providing alternate stylesheets. After that, browsers, if at all, only provided a bare minimum UI to switch stylesheets, usually though the application menu. ![]() įirefox (perhaps under its previous name, I can't remember) initially provided a statusbar-based UI to quickly switch styles, but it was removed sometime in 2004. the resolution rules that determine which styles get applied. The vision of CSS included the notion of alternate stylesheets and some capability in browsers for the user to pick the stylesheet as well as the notion of user styles which sometimes supplement, sometimes override the page author's style all governed by the famous 'cascade' i.e. † A charset=utf-8 meta tag was added to the HTML since the NPR document was served without a charset but contained UTF-8 encoded elements (instead of their HTML-encoded counterparts) Less harsh contrast, fonts with better hinting, limiting horizontal eye travel, keeping content from reaching the very edges of the screen on mobile, and making the size of elements (and how much DOM real estate space they take up) match their relative importance. The focus isn't "design" per se, but merely readability. OK, with the caveat that I'm not a designer and have been told I haven't an artistic bone in my body, here's what NPR looks like with only some extremely basic CSS applied to html, body, and a elements and no changes to the actual HTML:† Īnd here's what it looks like with no changes to the HTML but with some additional CSS styling applied to the various sections of the document: I personally don’t because I appreciate the value in judging people (and the content they produce) by how they’ve styled it (or haven’t, which can oftentimes be preferable). I don’t know many people that still customize their Browser default style sheets (can you even do that in Edge, I wonder?). Of course when the web first started, the idea was that it would serve styl able but-unstyled-by-default content _and then the user would style it as they liked_ so they could enjoy a consistent and customized experience no matter what they were browsing. While modern CSS has been inching towards becoming Turing complete (is it already now? I think so long as adding html elements via :before/:after remains disallowed we aren’t there yet?), CSS’ biggest saving grace is that it was a declarative and Turing incomplete. And neither one of those interferes with text only, thank god. Once you embrace minimalism, you realize that aesthetics are primarily a concept of white space and typography. Text-only doesn’t have to be _ugly_ though. My first, knee-jerk reaction was “God, that loaded fast!” even though I already knew going in what to expect.
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