I'm not sure if it's just me, but I've got the feeling that these days, most useful and ground breaking new research and technology comes from companies, not universities.
If you have a div with a certain width and height, you should perfectly be able to center text horizontally and vertically. And UI designers of a web app can and will put the text of every thing centered.
It's such a basic, simple, logical, thing to do that it is really annoying of CSS to not have such a fundamental concept.
You can't properly choose independently if an element is focusable by mouse only, or by keyboard with tabbing only.
You can't properly to make it break text into multiple lines if a single word is too long and you really want it to break text inside the width of your element. Websites all over the place are now using JS to insert random spaces in long strings like URLs due to this.
Why can't you say with CSS: The text gets THIS area to render itself in, so the text STAYS in there, do the best you can to render it there in a nice way, break between words, or break a word if necessary, but DON'T frigging put the text outside of my div, and DON'T add ugly scrollbars.
Why do table cells get some nice properties that you can't give to divs?
Why can't you do all kinds of awesome things using a SINGLE div and various styles, rather than relying on hacks involving multiple divs, that have to totally change again if seemingly layout-only things of the design change?
CSS is supposed to separate content from layout. However so many layout things cannot be done with CSS in straightforward and portable ways.
Something as basic as vertically centering text is impossible.
Putting things left, right, in a horizontal row or in a vertical row is a nightmare that usually involves creating more HTML elements anyway instead of being able to use pure CSS.
You can't make adaptive colors in CSS, like a shadow color automatically calculated from another color.
On top of that, you can't inherit from CSS classes so have to duplicate the same thing multiple times if you don't want to give each element multiple classes.
How about a new standard, replacing CSS, that truly allows separation of content and style in modern web apps?
No need to compile it yourself if you don't want to, let the community do the work for you and use your package manager. Or does Windows not have such a package manager?
I'm not sure about an i-Pod, but my phone can charge when plugged into a powered off PC's USB, because the USB keeps giving power as long as the power supply is in the net.
At work I leave it running all week to avoid reopening everything each morning.
But at home the cost of rebooting is way smaller so I turn it off, and honestly, all these monitor, speaker, etc... lights get on my nerves, I mean, even the mouse has a light that remains on through USB when the PC is off.
BTW I know I'm talking about PC's here while the article is about consoles, I hope it's not too off topic.
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Now we just need to find somebody with the money...
I'm not sure if it's just me, but I've got the feeling that these days, most useful and ground breaking new research and technology comes from companies, not universities.
What do you think?
> and ancient UFO instruction manual.
That's because an instruction manual isn't needed, who would read it anyway?!
If you have a div with a certain width and height, you should perfectly be able to center text horizontally and vertically. And UI designers of a web app can and will put the text of every thing centered.
It's such a basic, simple, logical, thing to do that it is really annoying of CSS to not have such a fundamental concept.
I forgot to mention the word wrapping problem is in a table cell.
To continue my rant:
You can't properly choose independently if an element is focusable by mouse only, or by keyboard with tabbing only.
You can't properly to make it break text into multiple lines if a single word is too long and you really want it to break text inside the width of your element. Websites all over the place are now using JS to insert random spaces in long strings like URLs due to this.
Why can't you say with CSS: The text gets THIS area to render itself in, so the text STAYS in there, do the best you can to render it there in a nice way, break between words, or break a word if necessary, but DON'T frigging put the text outside of my div, and DON'T add ugly scrollbars.
Why do table cells get some nice properties that you can't give to divs?
Why can't you do all kinds of awesome things using a SINGLE div and various styles, rather than relying on hacks involving multiple divs, that have to totally change again if seemingly layout-only things of the design change?
CSS is supposed to separate content from layout. However so many layout things cannot be done with CSS in straightforward and portable ways.
Something as basic as vertically centering text is impossible.
Putting things left, right, in a horizontal row or in a vertical row is a nightmare that usually involves creating more HTML elements anyway instead of being able to use pure CSS.
You can't make adaptive colors in CSS, like a shadow color automatically calculated from another color.
On top of that, you can't inherit from CSS classes so have to duplicate the same thing multiple times if you don't want to give each element multiple classes.
How about a new standard, replacing CSS, that truly allows separation of content and style in modern web apps?
Don't worry, I can't think of many languages that for which you need to 'buy' a development environment.
Want to do frontend stuff? JavaScript, etc... Your dev environment is a good JS debugger in a browser.
C/C++: Do those in Linux for best ease of use (compiler and debugger come with the OS)
Java: Eclipse, or IntelliJ's open source edition?
I think even C# can be developed with a free editor...
Out hunting, while sitting in front of strange boxes that give light all day?!
I've always wondered what a dog is thinking that all these humans must be doing all day long.
So the problem of the claimant is that Nokia is struggling, and his solution is to sue them, which could cause even more struggles?
Hmm, plus I didn't use FSAA or other types of AA so maybe it was not *all* setting to max :)
And then get locked out if you come from cold weather outside and cold hands somehow make you move differently...
One question though: If I can play Skyrim with all settings to max at 1920x1200 with a GTX 560, what is SLI of two GTX 690's needed for?
No need to compile it yourself if you don't want to, let the community do the work for you and use your package manager. Or does Windows not have such a package manager?
Hmm, Photoshop, Paintshop and Photo-Paint are already taken.
So maybe Imageshop, or Pictureshop Pro, or Picture-Photo?
Warning: non native English speaker here.
I didn't know gimp was an offensive word. Do children recognize it as offensive? Is it because it sounds like "chimp"? Are monkeys offensive?
Well, the ones on those roofs that are made public could be decoys...
I hope for him he didn't have to walk all the way from the front to the back though...
How does this ejecting work from a 727? Does the roof above the cockpit open and the chair jumps out, or how?
I'm not sure about an i-Pod, but my phone can charge when plugged into a powered off PC's USB, because the USB keeps giving power as long as the power supply is in the net.
I didn't know that indeed. System updates? I thought the point of consoles was that they didn't need such stuff. But I've always gamed on PCs so...
At work I leave it running all week to avoid reopening everything each morning.
But at home the cost of rebooting is way smaller so I turn it off, and honestly, all these monitor, speaker, etc... lights get on my nerves, I mean, even the mouse has a light that remains on through USB when the PC is off.
BTW I know I'm talking about PC's here while the article is about consoles, I hope it's not too off topic.
I've always used a power board with a switch for my PC, and when the PC is off I also turn the switch off. So no motherboard or monitor LEDs working.
Is this a common thing to do or do most people just leave all this stuff on?
/me wants 24" or smaller desktop screen with 2048*1536 pixels or more.