unavailable_after - meta tag, tag, class?

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Jill Whalen’s High Rankings Advisor newsletter carries some breaking news about an “unavailable_after” tag, for use by Google to determine when information is past a nominal “sell-by date” - the special offer is over, the event is past, or that article is gone into the subscription-only archives.

It’s not clear yet, however, if that’s going to be a meta tag, for use on a per-page basis, a tag in the proper HTML sense that you could use for a section of a page, or something else entirely like a class or a command in a robots.txt file. If anyone knows, let me know - in the businesses I’m working in, that functionality would be gold.

UPDATE: It’s been confirmed by Google as a meta tag.

Design & CSS: DVI vs. VGA

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I have two identical monitors on my workstation in work. One of them is connected to the video card by DVI, the other by VGA. The differences are quite astounding.

DVI seems to have sharper, clearer colours. In’ve no idea if this is inherent to the connection, or if it’s something on the video card, but it’s making life interesting around now. One one of my two screens, I can distinguish black from a dark navy - that’s VGA. On DVI, they look almost identical, but orange and grey colours that are almost invisible on the VGA monitor stand out bright and clear. There’re a range of shades of light grey that look white on VGA, too. Given we use all these colours in our new designs, making things usable for everyone is going to be tough.