I prefer Bluefish to Vim personally - and, yeah, it works. Being a Linux user, i've never used Dreamweaver, but i have watched a friend use it briefly and it looks like it would be kinda handy for some things (although in no way worth the amount you have to pay for it).
But, if you weren't capable of doing the same thing with just a text editor, then i guess you'd be likely to churn out really badly coded pages. No doubt that accounts for a significant proportion of the crap sites kicking around the web right now.
Eh? I was under the impression that that was still the case [......]
No, it's not. The <p> and </p> tags delimit a paragraph - which is a semantic unit. The paragraph break is only something that's implied by having two consecutive paragraphs - it's not actually marked, as such. Of course, the end tag is only required in XHTML - it's optional in HTML, but is implied by the opening tag of any element that follows it.
And really, if the <p> tag had been intended to delimit paragraphs as such, it would make no sense at all to have it be a standalone self-closing tag rather than pair it with </p>.
You're right, it doesn't. And i've never seen such a thing. You're not thinking of <br/>, are you?
[......] lately it's just been one issue after the other [......]
Sadly, i have to agree. I've been using firefox as my primary browser (under Linux) since the early days and it's improved a lot. But nowadays it just seems to be riddled with problems. It crashes constantly. I keep getting weird segfaults from it. And i'm beginning to suspect it may have some connection with other system problems i'm having at the moment. I'm hoping 3.1 will be an improvement.
The problem is there isn't really a viable alternative, as far as i can see. Opera comes close, but it's not quite there. I use the web developer plugin constantly, along with several other similar plugins, and i couldn't do without them.
[......] early in the HTML standard, you didn't have to close paragraph elements.
Early in the HTML standard, 'p' tags didn't refer to paragraphs at all - they signified paragraph breaks.
Not long ago i dug up a page i wrote back in about 95, which is archived in the WayBack Machine, and i was really surprised to find i'd only put 'p' tags between paragraphs - and not at the start of them. Checking the HTML 1 standard (it wasn't called "1" though) it seems that this was the correct way to write HTML back then. I'd forgotten completely.
It's not that comprehensive - there's no mention of drums or hard disk cartridges.
The first system i worked on as an assembler programmer at the start of the 80s was an old 60s machine based around a drum. We booted it with paper tape and punched cards. (Ultronics SGS)
Good point but the reason they ended up in this situation is that no one has invented a net that catches small ones and lets the big ones go.
That's not true. It's exactly what by-catch reduction devices (BRDs) do in modern prawn trawler (etc) nets. The prawns end up in the cod end but the turtles etc are diverted out a hole in the top.
I've come across lots of hardware faults in Macs - proportionally more than i've come across in other systems. At least some ipod models have had some fairly dire design faults too.
I'm not a computer snob, by any means - but if i'm paying significantly more for a piece of hardware, i expect it to work significantly better.
I see someone's used the '-1 Disagree' moderation option again.
Slashdot management: why can't we have a "Disagree" option in the mod select box - that knocks off one mod point from the moderator, but does nothing to the post???
I use tabs for indentation. But i don't use python.
Maybe i'm wrong, but using an invisible character (which could be a/some tab(s) or a/some space(s)) seems like it could make the code very hard to read and prone to errors.
[......] in my view Atlantis-hunting is silly and has no historical foundation whatsoever.
I'm quite sure the myth of Atlantis has got a historical basis. There's not much doubt that there would have been settlements of some sort that disappeared beneath the ocean when water levels rose after the last ice age.
As the stories of these places got passed down from generation to generation they probably grew and took on mystical proportions until they developed into the stories that are kicking around today.
Chances are the ships that mapped those lines were looking for Atlantis - and that's why the lines appear where Atlantis was fabled to be. If they were, the search itself actually created what they were looking for!
Yeah, dead right. It's pretty much guaranteed that there were ice age settlements out below what's now the surface of the Atlantic.
The same goes for the North Sea, of course, which was almost entirely dry land during the last ice age - and almost certainly had settlements of some sort before the water levels rose. That seems likely to be the original homeland of the Saxons - who ended up being evenly distributed on both sides when the water level rose.
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I prefer Bluefish to Vim personally - and, yeah, it works. Being a Linux user, i've never used Dreamweaver, but i have watched a friend use it briefly and it looks like it would be kinda handy for some things (although in no way worth the amount you have to pay for it).
But, if you weren't capable of doing the same thing with just a text editor, then i guess you'd be likely to churn out really badly coded pages. No doubt that accounts for a significant proportion of the crap sites kicking around the web right now.
No, it's not. The <p> and </p> tags delimit a paragraph - which is a semantic unit. The paragraph break is only something that's implied by having two consecutive paragraphs - it's not actually marked, as such. Of course, the end tag is only required in XHTML - it's optional in HTML, but is implied by the opening tag of any element that follows it.
You're right, it doesn't. And i've never seen such a thing. You're not thinking of <br />, are you?
Sadly, i have to agree. I've been using firefox as my primary browser (under Linux) since the early days and it's improved a lot. But nowadays it just seems to be riddled with problems. It crashes constantly. I keep getting weird segfaults from it. And i'm beginning to suspect it may have some connection with other system problems i'm having at the moment. I'm hoping 3.1 will be an improvement.
The problem is there isn't really a viable alternative, as far as i can see. Opera comes close, but it's not quite there. I use the web developer plugin constantly, along with several other similar plugins, and i couldn't do without them.
Early in the HTML standard, 'p' tags didn't refer to paragraphs at all - they signified paragraph breaks.
Not long ago i dug up a page i wrote back in about 95, which is archived in the WayBack Machine, and i was really surprised to find i'd only put 'p' tags between paragraphs - and not at the start of them. Checking the HTML 1 standard (it wasn't called "1" though) it seems that this was the correct way to write HTML back then. I'd forgotten completely.
It's not that comprehensive - there's no mention of drums or hard disk cartridges.
The first system i worked on as an assembler programmer at the start of the 80s was an old 60s machine based around a drum. We booted it with paper tape and punched cards. (Ultronics SGS)
Who cares? I want to know what the fish think!
That's not true. It's exactly what by-catch reduction devices (BRDs) do in modern prawn trawler (etc) nets. The prawns end up in the cod end but the turtles etc are diverted out a hole in the top.
Which logic? That if i'm paying more for the hardware it should be better?
Cool. That was modded "-1 Disagree" too! The mod morons are out in force today!
And, anyway, how could anyone take a hardware manufacturer seriously that makes mouses like Apple does???
I've come across lots of hardware faults in Macs - proportionally more than i've come across in other systems. At least some ipod models have had some fairly dire design faults too.
I'm not a computer snob, by any means - but if i'm paying significantly more for a piece of hardware, i expect it to work significantly better.
I see someone's used the '-1 Disagree' moderation option again.
Slashdot management: why can't we have a "Disagree" option in the mod select box - that knocks off one mod point from the moderator, but does nothing to the post???
Yeah, maybe so. It seems a bit ideologically driven to me - a language that forces a particular coding style on you.
I invariably indent blocks - but i do it because it's good practice, and i don't think i'd like it if the languages i wrote in forced it on me.
Now if a language forced you to intersperse code blocks with verbose comments, i might think it was a good idea! ;-)
I use tabs for indentation. But i don't use python.
Maybe i'm wrong, but using an invisible character (which could be a/some tab(s) or a/some space(s)) seems like it could make the code very hard to read and prone to errors.
OSX is undoubtedly a good OS, but Mac hardware is crap. It's about time they stared selling OSX on its own.
Although that might seriously damage Linux, so maybe it's better that they don't.
I agree. I can't get my head around the insanity of python's system of indentation delimiting block structure...
What's wrong with lines terminating with semi-colons anyway? It encourages much tidier and more readable code, i reckon.
Yeah. Like most forums, links in comments are given the rel="nofollow" attribute, which means google will ignore them.
I'm quite sure the myth of Atlantis has got a historical basis. There's not much doubt that there would have been settlements of some sort that disappeared beneath the ocean when water levels rose after the last ice age.
As the stories of these places got passed down from generation to generation they probably grew and took on mystical proportions until they developed into the stories that are kicking around today.
Chances are the ships that mapped those lines were looking for Atlantis - and that's why the lines appear where Atlantis was fabled to be. If they were, the search itself actually created what they were looking for!
Yeah, dead right. It's pretty much guaranteed that there were ice age settlements out below what's now the surface of the Atlantic.
The same goes for the North Sea, of course, which was almost entirely dry land during the last ice age - and almost certainly had settlements of some sort before the water levels rose. That seems likely to be the original homeland of the Saxons - who ended up being evenly distributed on both sides when the water level rose.
[......] already over 50 customer reviews posted.
Looks like Canon's marketing dept have been busy then!
I hope they take more care of their plutonium than they do of their computers!
There are shitloads of Americans in Kabul who use internet cafes. Quite a few restaurants/cafes have free wireless internet.
In Kabul, it's dust that's the problem. Everything fills up with it very quickly.
There are virtually no landlines in Afghanistan - and i think hooking a C64 up to use a GSM data connection could be tricky!