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In a tree you have branches off branches off branches etc. You can’t orient yourself - you can’t tell where you are - unless you count the branches. And indent
by LeonB 4y ago
In a tree you have branches off branches off branches etc.
You can’t orient yourself - you can’t tell where you are - unless you count the branches. And indenting makes that visible.
In the examples for TFA, you can tell your location from the names of the elements. Eg <td> is enough for you to know you’re probably inside a tr inside a table.
And that is the more common case than the general tree example.
But a method of describing html does have to answer the question of how it represents arbitrarily deep nesting. But I like the answers it’s given for the more common case of structures that are not arbitrarily deep.
- Jcowell 4y agoWhat’s a TFA?
- dec0dedab0de 4y agoThe Fine(or Fucking) Article
- shkkmo 4y agoI always read the 'F' as "Featured"
- nayuki 4y agoAnd this terminology (TFA) comes from at least the Slashdot days, about 20 years ago.
- anjbe 4y agoIn turn, probably descended from “RTFM”—on Slashdot people who commented despite obviously not having read the article were told to “RTFA,” which eventually led to “TFA” as a general term to refer to the original article.
- LinuxBender 4y agoUrbandictionary agrees. I reprogrammed myself to read it as "Fabulous" using a text replacement addon.
- mlok 4y agoThe "F" has always been "Forementioned" for me.