Comments on: Coding the Kims http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/07/20/coding-the-kims/ Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:09:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: What It's Like To Use North Korea's Internet | Grabber http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/07/20/coding-the-kims/#comment-183379 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 21:07:43 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=1993#comment-183379 […] The government dictates usage rules for even the tiniest minutiae of Kwangmyong, including the underlying HTML code used on every website. One such coding mandate dictates that every time Kim Jong Il’s, Kim Il Sung’s, or Kim Jong Un’s names appear on a website their font will be 20% larger than the rest of the text on the page. […]

]]> By: Kim Jong-Rizzo | La Privata Repubblica http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/07/20/coding-the-kims/#comment-5772 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:33:04 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=1993#comment-5772 […] si può notare nell’immagine qui sopra, in tutti i siti ufficiali della Corea del Nord i nomi dei vari Kim (nonno, padre e figlio) sono leggermente più grandi […]

]]> By: Now and For Propaganda | 龔家令道製作 http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/07/20/coding-the-kims/#comment-5650 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:36:01 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=1993#comment-5650 […] KCNA has gone back and put Kim, Jong-Un‘s name in the special-sized, slightly-bolded font on every digital archive they have: […]

]]> By: North Korea’s character set North Korea News & Information Resource NK News http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/07/20/coding-the-kims/#comment-1786 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:41:06 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=1993#comment-1786 […] couple of months ago I wrote about the ways North Korean websites show respect to Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il by increasing the font size when […]

]]> By: Martin http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/07/20/coding-the-kims/#comment-1658 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:47:30 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=1993#comment-1658 that font thing is really crazy. http://i.imgur.com/5Fum2.jpg
I wonder if there are any spots or areas in NK’s daily life where the national party/leadership is not present?

]]> By: Richard http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/07/20/coding-the-kims/#comment-1614 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:28:05 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=1993#comment-1614 @SP That’s pretty funny re: Kim Jong-un not yet being part of the special-font family.

]]> By: Weekly News Brief – 25 July 2011 « NORTH KOREA NEWS BRIEF http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/07/20/coding-the-kims/#comment-1580 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:32:32 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=1993#comment-1580 […] Sycophancy in HTML: NK websites code KJI and KIS’s names to always be bigger than the surrounding text. KJU is not yet deemed worthy of such an honour. […]

]]> By: SP http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/07/20/coding-the-kims/#comment-1575 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:26:43 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=1993#comment-1575 KCNA appears to not deem Kim Jong-un worthy of the larger font treatment. Yet another ‘signal’ to look out for in the succession process… ;)

]]> By: Ray Cunningham http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/07/20/coding-the-kims/#comment-1510 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:38:56 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=1993#comment-1510 Thank you. I had noticed this but had not looked behind the coding. Very interesting.

]]> By: Coding the Kims North Korea News & Information Resource NK News http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/07/20/coding-the-kims/#comment-1502 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:50:09 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=1993#comment-1502 […] Here’s are some examples. First, from the website of KCNA. Kim Jong Il is mentioned twice and both times his name is slightly bigger than the rest of the text. (NK Tech) http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/07/20/coding-the-kims/ […]

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