On heavily content managment based sites, it's virtally impossible to guarantee the pages will pass the validator tests if you allow the owner/users to add content with e WYSIWYG editor in the backend. They'll always find some way of screwing it up, no matter how many safeguards are in place.
So unless you're limiting them to text only, plus a controlled image uploader, you have to live with it.
That's not to say the site shouldn't validate before they get their hands on it though - it's hard to excuse plain broken markup or hacks these days. Maybe 5 years ago...
The thing I find worrying with this case is that (to me at least, as someone in the UK) it seems to be of major importance, yet is not being reported on the BBC's news site. I don't watch TV, so have no idea if it's been shown there...
Actually I've been running my old Linux server underclocked for a couple of years now. Athlon 1.4ghz, running at 1ghz. It's much cooler, uses less power, and solid as a rock - even though it lives up in my attic. Apart from a bit of web/database development, and archiving stuff once a week, it really doesn't need much horsepower to serve files and route. Couldn't get it to boot at a lower clock speed though.
Er, I'm in the UK; where they build and sell these things. The 300bhp model with brake kit is 35k. The 245bhp model (which is still almost 500bhp/tonne) is 28k.
I love that car (the real Ariel Atom". 0 to 100mph to 0 in just over 10 seconds. 0 - 60mph in well under 3 seconds for about 30k (with the 300bhp supercharged option and big brakes). Not too practical I guess, but the fun factor... wow!
I'm right there with you on this - and if I hadn't replied, I'd have modded you up;-) I don't see why Firefox can't look for say wwwsomesite.com first, then if nothing, try www.somesite.com. Same with the ww. typos. I'll sometimes bang in a URL too quickly and typo like that, then realise and click on the URL bar - which in Firefox hilights the whole URL, annoyingly, then click again, then the browser tells me it can't find the site and resets the caret to the end of the damned URL as I'm typing!
I know, I should hit the stop button, but I always try to beat the browser (page not found) for some reason even I can't understand!
I'm sorry, but anyone who claims all links on all websites everywhere are "supposed to be" blue with underlines clearly has absolutely no idea about branding, design or the fact the web has moved on in the past decade. Maybe all the clothes you wear should be grey, all the furniture in your house should be bright orange and your car should be a wheezing, smoke belching Trabbant too, eh comrade?
Yes, you can turn off CSS in your browser to make the web look like shit, but I'd hazard a guess that nobody at all, except the visually impaired would do that.
I'd hate to see the ugly grey sludgy mess the web would be with people like you making design decisions.
How's the weather up there in your cloud of ignorance. I'm not sure if you're trolling, or just completely misguided. MS have (and this is documented by hard evidence that anyone with an ounce of sense can dig up on Google) put competitors out of business by using their monopoly position on many occasions.
In fact, a company I worked at saw this happen first hand where MS forced Compaq to use its product; which was riddled with bugs, and had far less features than the competition, despite requiring twice the amount of Flash memory. This was the absolute opposite of innovation, it was holding the hardware back, customers were getting a woefully bad product, and Compaq only complied due to the implied repercusions if it used a competitor.
While there is not an iota of love inside me for copyright holders, both the poster and the blogger are trying to stir up reader's emotions by their choice of phrases.
Opera 9 still displays visual artifacts when using DHTML/DOM Scripting/(whatever people are calling it this week). I recently coded up a quick demo for a bigger project - the demo allowed an image to be uploaded, resized and moved about using Javascript, then "stamped out" by using js+php. I only tested Opera out of interest as It's always been pretty flaky with Javascript/CSS. Moving images with the mouse was fine, but resizing (in the app, this was done by grabbing a corner and moving it) resulted in pixel trails which looked kind of cool, but were not supposed to be there. The "fix", was to continually change the z-index of the image as it was being resized, causing Opera to refresh the canvas.
The reason Opera is "victimised" by older scripts is due to the ridiculous decision of that company to add code stubs for functions it did not actually support (I remember when it had document.getElementById(), which always returned null - that's why many scripts look for the Opera string, and block it).
It's not like MS's support or otherwise would stop it being adopted.
Actually, it's exactly like that. If the manufacturers finally grew spines and just stated that they would not add the extra hardware to run this new layer of digital restriction mechanism, the "technology" would die out immediately.
I routinely burn all my iTunes purchases to CD, then rip them straight back in and delete the DRM files. This is so that I can easily take them to work and share them on iTunes. I normally buy whole albums at a time, and, as long as you ensure the tracks are burnt to CD in the right order, iTunes will normally pick up the track names etc ok when you rip them back in. I've only had to manually enter details for a couple of CDs over the past year, and I have many thousands of tracks.
I can't believe how little effort some people put into writing grammatically correct prose. caught With a 5 digit Slashdot ID, you should have become immune to it by now...
I don't see why they don't fashion some sort of electrical disruption device, like those trident things out of "2 Fast, 2 Furious" that the cops just shot into a car. Not only were they effective (unless the drive manages to somehow lean out of the window far enough to reach the back of the car and prize the 2 foot spear out of the bodywork while travelling at 100mph), but they look cool too.
Actually that site is literally years out of date - the "between positions" period was pretty short - and mostly me slacking (I wasn't claiming the dole though);-)
I'm guessing you've never been on the dole, then. It's not a case of "sponging".
If you don't go in to the job centre every fortnight, at your appointed time (and not a minute later), and convince the guy on the other side of the desk, face to face, that you are doing everything within your capabilities to find work, then you lose your benefits. If you don't accept any job you're offered, however bad the pay and conditions, then you lose your benefits. If you're still signing on after a set amount of time, then they start applying for jobs for you. And if you refuse those, you lose your benefits.
I have been on the dole before (for a couple of weeks, and I found it a pretty unpleasant experience - it served me right for being lazy and living off my savings for 6 months bumming around I guess! (I didn't claim during that time)) I have nothing but respect for anyone who is actually seeking work, but your idilic description of the way the UK employment agency "works" is totally unrealistic. I personally know of chavs around here who have never worked - to be honest I can't imagine anyone in their right mind employing them. I guess if they do get sent to job interviews they deliberately fail them to stay on the dole, sponging. Chav's are like Pavlov's dog (except less intelligent); they've been trained to associate "not working" with "free money and time to sit around smoking pot and vandalising the environment."
The problem is that chavs and chavettes in the UK are rewarded for their lives of crime and sponging with nice free handouts from the dole office, cash for their bastard kids, free housing any any other benefits these parasites can grab. Thus, they have plenty of time to spawn more idiot children than intelligent people, holding down jobs to pay for this vermin. Since the idiots are spawning idiot sprogs much faster than intelligent people are producing normal offspring, it drags the average IQ down.
I think everyone who is able to work should receive no money whatsoever from the government until they've worked continuously for at least 5 years. Give them food and clothes plus shelter for the night, but that's it. It's time the culture of laziness, expecting people to bail them out was over.
During the years, we've had the chance to sue the hell out of a lot of companies for all sorts of patented ideas we came up while picking our noses, but this is my first big project.
This says it all about patents really. This guy admits these "highly valuable" ideas, worth millions were dreamed up by a few guys sat around picking their noses. Of course, nobody else could possible come up with such brilliant ideas on their own, when it takes so much time, development effort and expertise to put these patent portfolios together... Morons...
For christ's sake! I'm a subscriber and get to tell these clowns when they're about to post a dupe. So not only does Taco not bother reading any articles posted the previous day, he doesn't even bother reading emails telling the idiot he's about to post a damned dupe! What's the point?!!
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Something about barn doors and bolting horses springs to mind...
On heavily content managment based sites, it's virtally impossible to guarantee the pages will pass the validator tests if you allow the owner/users to add content with e WYSIWYG editor in the backend. They'll always find some way of screwing it up, no matter how many safeguards are in place.
So unless you're limiting them to text only, plus a controlled image uploader, you have to live with it.
That's not to say the site shouldn't validate before they get their hands on it though - it's hard to excuse plain broken markup or hacks these days. Maybe 5 years ago...
The thing I find worrying with this case is that (to me at least, as someone in the UK) it seems to be of major importance, yet is not being reported on the BBC's news site. I don't watch TV, so have no idea if it's been shown there...
Actually I've been running my old Linux server underclocked for a couple of years now. Athlon 1.4ghz, running at 1ghz. It's much cooler, uses less power, and solid as a rock - even though it lives up in my attic. Apart from a bit of web/database development, and archiving stuff once a week, it really doesn't need much horsepower to serve files and route. Couldn't get it to boot at a lower clock speed though.
Er, I'm in the UK; where they build and sell these things. The 300bhp model with brake kit is 35k. The 245bhp model (which is still almost 500bhp/tonne) is 28k.
I love that car (the real Ariel Atom". 0 to 100mph to 0 in just over 10 seconds. 0 - 60mph in well under 3 seconds for about 30k (with the 300bhp supercharged option and big brakes). Not too practical I guess, but the fun factor... wow!
I'm right there with you on this - and if I hadn't replied, I'd have modded you up ;-) I don't see why Firefox can't look for say wwwsomesite.com first, then if nothing, try www.somesite.com. Same with the ww. typos. I'll sometimes bang in a URL too quickly and typo like that, then realise and click on the URL bar - which in Firefox hilights the whole URL, annoyingly, then click again, then the browser tells me it can't find the site and resets the caret to the end of the damned URL as I'm typing!
I know, I should hit the stop button, but I always try to beat the browser (page not found) for some reason even I can't understand!
I'm sorry, but anyone who claims all links on all websites everywhere are "supposed to be" blue with underlines clearly has absolutely no idea about branding, design or the fact the web has moved on in the past decade. Maybe all the clothes you wear should be grey, all the furniture in your house should be bright orange and your car should be a wheezing, smoke belching Trabbant too, eh comrade?
Yes, you can turn off CSS in your browser to make the web look like shit, but I'd hazard a guess that nobody at all, except the visually impaired would do that.
I'd hate to see the ugly grey sludgy mess the web would be with people like you making design decisions.
How's the weather up there in your cloud of ignorance. I'm not sure if you're trolling, or just completely misguided. MS have (and this is documented by hard evidence that anyone with an ounce of sense can dig up on Google) put competitors out of business by using their monopoly position on many occasions.
In fact, a company I worked at saw this happen first hand where MS forced Compaq to use its product; which was riddled with bugs, and had far less features than the competition, despite requiring twice the amount of Flash memory. This was the absolute opposite of innovation, it was holding the hardware back, customers were getting a woefully bad product, and Compaq only complied due to the implied repercusions if it used a competitor.
While we're on that subject is a guitarist who plays the notes on the page an artist?
The word you're looking for is "musician"... "musician". That is all.
This will change the face of Apple computers.
Yeah, it's the virtual ugly stick!
While there is not an iota of love inside me for copyright holders, both the poster and the blogger are trying to stir up reader's emotions by their choice of phrases.
You must be new here...
Opera 9 still displays visual artifacts when using DHTML/DOM Scripting/(whatever people are calling it this week). I recently coded up a quick demo for a bigger project - the demo allowed an image to be uploaded, resized and moved about using Javascript, then "stamped out" by using js+php. I only tested Opera out of interest as It's always been pretty flaky with Javascript/CSS. Moving images with the mouse was fine, but resizing (in the app, this was done by grabbing a corner and moving it) resulted in pixel trails which looked kind of cool, but were not supposed to be there. The "fix", was to continually change the z-index of the image as it was being resized, causing Opera to refresh the canvas.
The reason Opera is "victimised" by older scripts is due to the ridiculous decision of that company to add code stubs for functions it did not actually support (I remember when it had document.getElementById(), which always returned null - that's why many scripts look for the Opera string, and block it).
What's that? You say that they're talking about Windows? Pfff. Who uses Windows? I mean, do users have any clue how hard it is to uninstall... Oh.
:-P
(Yes, my tongue is again located in the cheek area.)
Yes, between Steve Jobs' cheeks it would seem...
Sorry, but CherryCake.org is the new hotness when it comes to unsafe sites...
It's not like MS's support or otherwise would stop it being adopted.
Actually, it's exactly like that. If the manufacturers finally grew spines and just stated that they would not add the extra hardware to run this new layer of digital restriction mechanism, the "technology" would die out immediately.
I routinely burn all my iTunes purchases to CD, then rip them straight back in and delete the DRM files. This is so that I can easily take them to work and share them on iTunes. I normally buy whole albums at a time, and, as long as you ensure the tracks are burnt to CD in the right order, iTunes will normally pick up the track names etc ok when you rip them back in. I've only had to manually enter details for a couple of CDs over the past year, and I have many thousands of tracks.
I can't believe how little effort some people put into writing grammatically correct prose.
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With a 5 digit Slashdot ID, you should have become immune to it by now...
I don't see why they don't fashion some sort of electrical disruption device, like those trident things out of "2 Fast, 2 Furious" that the cops just shot into a car. Not only were they effective (unless the drive manages to somehow lean out of the window far enough to reach the back of the car and prize the 2 foot spear out of the bodywork while travelling at 100mph), but they look cool too.
Actually that site is literally years out of date - the "between positions" period was pretty short - and mostly me slacking (I wasn't claiming the dole though) ;-)
I'm guessing you've never been on the dole, then. It's not a case of "sponging".
If you don't go in to the job centre every fortnight, at your appointed time (and not a minute later), and convince the guy on the other side of the desk, face to face, that you are doing everything within your capabilities to find work, then you lose your benefits. If you don't accept any job you're offered, however bad the pay and conditions, then you lose your benefits. If you're still signing on after a set amount of time, then they start applying for jobs for you. And if you refuse those, you lose your benefits.
I have been on the dole before (for a couple of weeks, and I found it a pretty unpleasant experience - it served me right for being lazy and living off my savings for 6 months bumming around I guess! (I didn't claim during that time)) I have nothing but respect for anyone who is actually seeking work, but your idilic description of the way the UK employment agency "works" is totally unrealistic. I personally know of chavs around here who have never worked - to be honest I can't imagine anyone in their right mind employing them. I guess if they do get sent to job interviews they deliberately fail them to stay on the dole, sponging. Chav's are like Pavlov's dog (except less intelligent); they've been trained to associate "not working" with "free money and time to sit around smoking pot and vandalising the environment."
The problem is that chavs and chavettes in the UK are rewarded for their lives of crime and sponging with nice free handouts from the dole office, cash for their bastard kids, free housing any any other benefits these parasites can grab. Thus, they have plenty of time to spawn more idiot children than intelligent people, holding down jobs to pay for this vermin. Since the idiots are spawning idiot sprogs much faster than intelligent people are producing normal offspring, it drags the average IQ down.
I think everyone who is able to work should receive no money whatsoever from the government until they've worked continuously for at least 5 years. Give them food and clothes plus shelter for the night, but that's it. It's time the culture of laziness, expecting people to bail them out was over.
Can somebody confirm?
I've contacted Netcraft, and am awaiting a response...
During the years, we've had the chance to sue the hell out of a lot of companies for all sorts of patented ideas we came up while picking our noses, but this is my first big project.
This says it all about patents really. This guy admits these "highly valuable" ideas, worth millions were dreamed up by a few guys sat around picking their noses. Of course, nobody else could possible come up with such brilliant ideas on their own, when it takes so much time, development effort and expertise to put these patent portfolios together... Morons...
For christ's sake! I'm a subscriber and get to tell these clowns when they're about to post a dupe. So not only does Taco not bother reading any articles posted the previous day, he doesn't even bother reading emails telling the idiot he's about to post a damned dupe! What's the point?!!