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I have isolated the city-experience within me and have examined it closely. The idea of a city fascinates me. The formation of a biological community without a functioning, supportive social community leads to havoc. Whole worlds have become single biological communities without an interrelated social structure and this has always led to ruin. It becomes dramatically instructive under overcrowded conditions. The ghetto is lethal. Psychic stresses of overcrowding create pressures which will erupt. The city is an attempt to manage these forces. The social forms by which cities make the attempt are worth study. Remember that there exists a certain malevolence about the formation of any social order. It is the struggle for existence by an artificial entity. Despotism and slavery hover at the edges. Many injuries occur and, thus, the need for laws. The law develops its own power structure, creating more wounds and new injustices. Such trauma can be healed by cooperation, not by confrontation. The summons to cooperate identifies the healer.

Leto Atreides, The Stolen Journals

Well, 3 out of 4.

Who'd have thunk it?

That's never been patented, has it? Not while people had sense, that is. It's so surprising that people find new keyboards.

Who'd have thunk it?

That's never been patented, has it? Not while people had sense, that is. It's so surprising that people find new keyboards.

Here's some online comics that might be worth checking out:

Sluggy - Students, aliens, ghosts, psychotic rabbits, evil kittens. One of the oldest and niftiest comics online.
User Friendly - Linux, geeks. You get the idea.
Megatokyo - An online manga following Piro and Largo whilst stranded in Tokyo.
Schlock Mercenary - Not too good art, but usually a very good and suitably sci-fi-ish plot.
Clan of the Cats - A modern-day witch cursed to change into a panther. Good artwork.
RPG World - Great art. A parody of almost any role playing game (the console variety) you'd care to play.
Ghost Cat - It's a cat! It's a ghost! It's ghost cat!
Elf Life - Elves, fairies, barbarians, time travel, romance, comedy, and very well drawn as well.
Exploitation Now! - An anime-ish comic with good art and an interesting, if sporadic, plot.
Real Life - It's real life. Except it's not. Reasonably funny.
Penny Arcade - The mother of all gaming comics. Very funny :)
Sephen - A relative newcomer, but wow! Great pencil-work!
8-bit Theater - The grandpappy of all sprite comics. I think. It's funny anyway. Go read :)
Demonology 101 - Fantastic art, fantastic plot! If only it came out more often! Ah well, the world isn't perfect.

Oh, and I can't really get away without mentioning my brother's sprite comic, Pixelated!. It really isn't bad. No, really! :)

Again, responding to my own post.

"Comment Submitted. There will be a delay before the comment becomes part of the static page. What you submitted appears below. If there is a mistake...well, you should have used the 'Preview' button!"

Yeah, well...mWorld. MZX32.

This time I'm using the "Preview" button.

1. Todd Fahrner's Box Acid Test
   
   
2. Inoshiro's browser test with a screenshot from IE 5 on the Mac courtesy of The Answer is 42

...with some decent diagnostics (i.e. "'}' expected on line 554" or something like that)

Try the W3C's HTML Validator.

...some random user agent (read: browser) can handle bad code in any number of unexpected ways.

Right, and that's why it's really important that the code be valid. Otherwise, the results are, as they say, "undefined" -- you may very well end up shutting out all but a few browsers and never even know it (unless people send you death threats or something ^_^).

It's kinda nice to have a 'strict' browser around. I've seen a lot of web designers make bad errors that don't show up in IE (which is about the most permissive browser out there).

Permissive browsers are good for users, but really bad for designers.

Probably better to use the validator anyway though.

Big thing, though, is that Netscape (<= v4) isn't exactly strict ... it's just downright broken. I make a reasonable effort (write valid & strongly semantic markup, make some minor adjustments) so that broken browsers can at least display the content (regardless of how it looks), but at the end of the day if it's just simply a matter of browser bugs, screw that browser.

For my personal projects (where I just go for rigorous standards-compliance) this usually means:

• Mozilla - fine
• Mac IE 5 - fine
• Netscape 3 - fine, no CSS
• lynx - fine, no CSS
• Windows IE 5 - fine (minor layout issues, little CSS2)
• Opera - fine (minor layout/formatting issues, occasional weird CSS1/CSS2)
• Windows IE 4 - fine, everything's readable although e.g. "float" can occasionally be bizzare.
• Netscape 4 - you can read the page ... most of the time. always new "surprises"
• Mac IE 4 - parses HTML in a non-upwardly compatible (and incorrect) way, so XHTML displays as source. too bad.

Oh. HTML Tidy is nice for fixing HTML so you don't have to by hand.

MegaZeux is a DOS/ASCII graphics game creation system (see: http://mworld.rydia.net/mzx.shtml). My son learned to program Megazeux by himself when he was 9. He just downloaded MegaZeux games and read the code. The nice thing about MegaZeux is that the end result is a computer game, so that keeps kids motivated.

Python should be great for kids, but you have to come up with some problems they would like to code. What do you do after "hello world"?

...richie