{"id":556,"date":"2005-12-03T13:21:25-05:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T18:21:25+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/03\/whats-this-all-about"},"modified":"2005-12-03T13:42:58-05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T18:42:58+00:00","slug":"whats-this-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2005\/12\/03\/whats-this-all-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s this all&nbsp;about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Noticed in the footer of CBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votebyissue.org\/cbc\/\">Vote by Issue Quiz<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote><p>Produced by: CBC.ca in Canada<\/p>\r\n<p>To submit feedback to CBC.ca, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/\">cbc.ca\/contact<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>To report bugs or leave feedback, email webmaster@wbur.bu.edu<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>Curiosities include:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>The oddly-phrased <q>CBC.ca in Canada<\/q>.  It makes a little more sense if you realize that&#8230;<\/li>\r\n<li>The quiz is on a non-CBC website, the American <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votebyissue.org\/\">votebyissue.org<\/a> run by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/\">Boston University<\/a>.  I&#8217;m guessing that the content was created by CBC employees but the issue-matching webapp is from BU.<\/li>\r\n<li>The text of the contact link points to a different URL (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/contact\/\">cbc.ca\/contact<\/a>) than the link itself (the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/\">CBC.ca homepage<\/a>).<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<p>The forms in the webapp are strange too: they use checkboxes (suggesting multiple selection) with Javascript to allow only one selection instead of radio buttons (which are designed to work that way).  The only reason I can see for this, and it&#8217;s suggested by the instructions but not overtly, is that you can choose not to answer a particular question; if you&#8217;ve already made a choice you can uncheck a box entirely.  A more intuitive\/natural interface, I think, would be to use radio buttons with a third item for &#8220;no selection&#8221;.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ins datetime=\"2005-12-03T13:36:00-05:00\"><p>To give credit where it&#8217;s due, it is nice to see that all of the items in the quiz forms are marked up with <code>&lt;label&gt;<\/code> elements.  On the downside, though, navigation between the post-quiz issues pages is done using radio buttons instead of simple links, even though getting to the pages in the first place <em>does<\/em> use links.  <em>Why&#x203d;<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>Finally, I also noticed that the page titles for the &#8220;issues&#8221; pages all say <q>WBUR :: Yahoo UK &amp; Ireland :: Vote By Issue Quiz<\/q>.  Where did <em>that<\/em> come from?<\/p>\r\n<p>And no, I&#8217;m not going to publish my results.<\/p><\/ins><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noticed in the footer of CBC&#8217;s Vote by Issue Quiz: Produced by: CBC.ca in Canada To submit feedback to CBC.ca, visit cbc.ca\/contact. To report bugs or leave feedback, email webmaster@wbur.bu.edu Curiosities include: The oddly-phrased CBC.ca in Canada. It makes a little more sense if you realize that&#8230; The quiz is on a non-CBC website, the&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,18,20],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}