I'm from Romania and I have few friends that are great online-traders and deliver the object every time !
And some things that worth to know:
this year we received the right to make full-access accounts on PayPal (some time ago we couldn't receive money, only send and at the beggining of this year we couldn't make accounts at all)
many of us are trustworthy people
some of us are considered "hackers" by the media beucase they are selling fictive objects on eBay
and a part of the population thinks it's a hard thing to lie online, on eBay
all users should buy big things only from sellers with good feedback
on our online auctions site, the most popular delivering and payment method is "face-to-face", mainly beucase there is a large group of "traders" in Bucharest, followed by the ramburs shipping (at the postal office, when you receive the package yo,u give the money)
there are some legal and good online businesses in Romania that rely on PayPal, so if they'll block our accounts again, this won't be a good thing for a big part of online entrepreneurs
> In an age where computers can render entire environments in real time you still can't do the following in HTML/CSS/Javascript... [...]
tip: You can do all that things in SVG... I know that's overkill but at least it works. The only problem would be with the embeded font, because the text will be a series of beizer curves so the SEO wouldn't be so efficient (the crawler would have to incorporate OCR software).
I excluded other image formats because this is based on XML (text) so it doesn't eat bandwidth comparing to the PNG/JPEG/Flash.
I tought the XHTML specifications were made to replace the old HTML4.01... but now I see that the next "version" of HTML4.01 is HTML5.
I think it's better to leave alone the HTML5 beucase it will cause more incompatibilities with the browsers and concentrate all the development efforts on the XHTML standard. I'm almost sure it won't be fully compliant with HTML4.01 and all major browsers will implement some different interpreting methods.
XHTML is more easier to understand for the computers because it is formatted as a XML, so it is nested and clear, but also is flexible.
Slashdot Mirror
In ex-soviet Russia, there is a http://www.slashdot.ru/ ! (and they haven't myminicity links) I hope that their Slashdot won't be slashdotted by our.
Obligatory XKCD reference: http://xkcd.com/331/
You could do it the real programmer's lazy way: make a flat file "database" and use regex to query that database.
> In an age where computers can render entire environments in real time you still can't do the following in HTML/CSS/Javascript ... [...]
... I know that's overkill but at least it works. The only problem would be with the embeded font, because the text will be a series of beizer curves so the SEO wouldn't be so efficient (the crawler would have to incorporate OCR software).
tip: You can do all that things in SVG
I excluded other image formats because this is based on XML (text) so it doesn't eat bandwidth comparing to the PNG/JPEG/Flash.
I tought the XHTML specifications were made to replace the old HTML4.01 ... but now I see that the next "version" of HTML4.01 is HTML5.
I think it's better to leave alone the HTML5 beucase it will cause more incompatibilities with the browsers and concentrate all the development efforts on the XHTML standard. I'm almost sure it won't be fully compliant with HTML4.01 and all major browsers will implement some different interpreting methods.
XHTML is more easier to understand for the computers because it is formatted as a XML, so it is nested and clear, but also is flexible.