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I'm sure several of you already know about this site, and some of you won't have any use for it, but for the rest ...

I just stumbled across a pretty damned cool sheet music site, called thesession.org. Yah, it is Yet Another Irish Session Tunes site (like there'll be any shortage of those on the web any time soon), but I like the way the tunes section is set up and the first few unfamiliar tunes I peeked at there looked interesting.

When viewing a specific tune, there are four tabs: "Details", "ABC", "Sheetmusic", and "Comments", and at least in my browser, switching between tabs happened instantly, making for a both pleasant and useful interface.

[Edited a few moments later to add:] Okay, I got curious about the implementation and played a hunch. It turns out that if I select "user style" instead of "author style" in Opera, or if I view a tune in Lynx, all four sections are visible at once (though the image of the sheet music does not, of course, display in Lynx). So they're turning a straight top-to-bottom page with a few <a name> and <a href> tags in it into this tabbed interface by way of some clever CSS trick ...

And true to the philosophy of CSS, when it fails because the user has a non-CSS browser or has said to use a different stylesheet, it breaks down in a completely useable and non-ugly fashion, even being quite reasonably Lynx-friendly.

The view is clean, without a lot of extraneous crap cluttering the screen and slowing down page loading. But it doesn't have a half-assed or amateurish look either. Somebody over there Really Understands The Web. Heh -- I wonder whether they also managed to make it look good on a cell phone or PDA.