I agree, if you're an experienced programmer. But he wants something with ease of use for html writers, not programmers. And I don't think there is any other simpler solution.
As for the security issues. Well I can understand the security issue, I always prefer the more secure solution even if it is more difficult to implement, but I am a programmer, not a html writer.
As for the javascript issue, I believe in this day and age people should face up to the fact that javascript in a website is a reasonable expectation, and a function that has been there for quite some time (in gui browsers). After some of the crap sites I've seen lately (flash, IE4 dhtml etc) you can't bag out something that has been there for a long time and works on most different browsers.
Cold fusion has a more html like feel to it's dynmaic functionality, in that it is also essentially tag driven. Have you considered getting the html writer to look into learning some cold fusion tags?
I agree with you on the point of separate modes of thought, but that still doesn't mean that it doesn't confuse the programmer who writes in a different mode of english than he prgrams (should that be programmes or programs) in.
By the way I use a localised spell checker, but how does that help me? I'm from Australia and I actually spell colour like colour. But when I write html I gotta use color. I don't use the M$ autocorrect cause it's usually not (correct) and I hate having to wait for the spell check to go through a 30 page design spec after it's done. Still I suppose it's gotta be done.
I never actually thought about English as being a dynamic language, because as you said it changes slow enough for us to keep up with. A very valid point though.
English as refered to on the internet (and in the case of computers in general, is more likely than not american english. I mean I can't tell you how many times I have had to run through pages and pages of manually written html files (written in a text editor not that gui dreamweaver/flash shit) and do a find and replace for align="centre" with align="center".
While this is a slight difference, it is significant, because there are a large number of non-American English speaking programmers out there and all these people have to learn how to program in one form of english and then go back to reading & writing in their native form of english.
What you end up with here is alot of programmers who end up being confused about which english language mode they're in most of the time which gradually leads to a degradtion in the quality of both written forms of english over time.
In this way, it could be argued (not that I neccessarily am) that the computers/internet/web are partially responsible for the gradual degradation of English as a whole - because it encourages inhomogeneity in the use of both forms.
By the way most of the design methodolgies I have been taught at uni - when it comes to computer (software) systems design - deal with design systems that use graphical methods with direct dependence on english language interpretations and uses. Has anyone seen any design methodologies that aren't actually in english ?
Isn't there some law about licencing CSS on machines with software and DVD capabilities as opposed to DVD players with CSS in hardware.
Won't this decision place the DVD player in the computer category and hence void the CSS licence?
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I agree, if you're an experienced programmer. But he wants something with ease of use for html writers, not programmers. And I don't think there is any other simpler solution.
As for the security issues. Well I can understand the security issue, I always prefer the more secure solution even if it is more difficult to implement, but I am a programmer, not a html writer.
As for the javascript issue, I believe in this day and age people should face up to the fact that javascript in a website is a reasonable expectation, and a function that has been there for quite some time (in gui browsers). After some of the crap sites I've seen lately (flash, IE4 dhtml etc) you can't bag out something that has been there for a long time and works on most different browsers.
Cold fusion has a more html like feel to it's dynmaic functionality, in that it is also essentially tag driven. Have you considered getting the html writer to look into learning some cold fusion tags?
I agree with you on the point of separate modes of thought, but that still doesn't mean that it doesn't confuse the programmer who writes in a different mode of english than he prgrams (should that be programmes or programs) in.
By the way I use a localised spell checker, but how does that help me? I'm from Australia and I actually spell colour like colour. But when I write html I gotta use color. I don't use the M$ autocorrect cause it's usually not (correct) and I hate having to wait for the spell check to go through a 30 page design spec after it's done. Still I suppose it's gotta be done.
I never actually thought about English as being a dynamic language, because as you said it changes slow enough for us to keep up with. A very valid point though.
English as refered to on the internet (and in the case of computers in general, is more likely than not american english. I mean I can't tell you how many times I have had to run through pages and pages of manually written html files (written in a text editor not that gui dreamweaver/flash shit) and do a find and replace for align="centre" with align="center".
While this is a slight difference, it is significant, because there are a large number of non-American English speaking programmers out there and all these people have to learn how to program in one form of english and then go back to reading & writing in their native form of english.
What you end up with here is alot of programmers who end up being confused about which english language mode they're in most of the time which gradually leads to a degradtion in the quality of both written forms of english over time.
In this way, it could be argued (not that I neccessarily am) that the computers/internet/web are partially responsible for the gradual degradation of English as a whole - because it encourages inhomogeneity in the use of both forms.
By the way most of the design methodolgies I have been taught at uni - when it comes to computer (software) systems design - deal with design systems that use graphical methods with direct dependence on english language interpretations and uses. Has anyone seen any design methodologies that aren't actually in english ?
Isn't there some law about licencing CSS on machines with software and DVD capabilities as opposed to DVD players with CSS in hardware. Won't this decision place the DVD player in the computer category and hence void the CSS licence?