AlienRobot

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by AlienRobot 3y ago
Honestly I don't get why so much software gets access to the entire filesystem just by running it. They should have made it so an .exe can only modify its own directory, a temp directory, and any file or directory passed to it by the u
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by AlienRobot 3y ago
I've read similar thoughts before about AI art. When the process was still developing, you would see AI "artwork" that was the most inhumanly uncanny pictures. Things that twisted the physical forms that human artists perceiv
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by AlienRobot 3y ago
Not at all. Because there are many books with colorful designs and unique visual language. Any textbook or magazine you pick will have more visually interesting articles than webpages.
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by AlienRobot 3y ago
>Why would you use instead of ? Because I can't be sure I'm using correctly. The spec says "The small element represents side comments such as small print.&qu
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by AlienRobot 3y ago
Some of them have default ARIA settings which I can understand, but others (like ) don't seem to come with any. I wish someone made a list of the practical effects of using this markup. The spec is ridiculously vague about
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by AlienRobot 3y ago
Good argument, ignoring what occurred in practice. Every person with healthy vision writing a Latin language is using as bold, and most of them don't even realize it because it's hidden behind GUIs that show a B (bo
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by AlienRobot 3y ago
Yes, I forgot to include it in the original comment, but besides frames and AJAX we also have static site generators, from no-code stuff like Frontpage all the way to Hugo, and server-side templating like PHP, Jinja, etc. These are all solu
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by AlienRobot 3y ago
>if you render the page not to a visual medium but to sound (screen readers), then you give the screen reader a chance to treat (and read) those words differently. So, why couldn't they do that with and ?
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by AlienRobot 3y ago
As far as I know screen readers don't seem to differentiate between , , or [1]. If the checker flags this despite there being no actual effects in the real world, it would really make me doubt
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by AlienRobot 3y ago
The problem is that you're trying to come up with a reason for the text to be bold. The reason the text is bold is simply because the writer wanted bold text. Bold is the tool and the tool that the writer chose was bold, specifically.
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by AlienRobot 3y ago
What does this mean? What are accessibility scans, and why are they flagging content?
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by AlienRobot 3y ago
>you really seem to be expressing that you only care about the way that you happen to consume text No, I only care about the way I write text. If I'm writing an article and I want to make text bold, I don't want to waste my tim
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by AlienRobot 3y ago
I'm sorry for what I'm going to tell you, but this is exactly the sort of wrong use of the <figure> tag I mentioned about. In fact, your blog contains the PERFECT example of WRONG use of the <figure> tag, which illustr
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by AlienRobot 3y ago
No. The correct paraphrase would be "I think you should recognize that text is different from speech and English is different from Japanese and welcome the diversity of media of knowledge instead of trying to make an one-size-fits-all
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by AlienRobot 3y ago
I understand, but honestly this is really not my problem. That's the problem of someone reading and writing non-Latin scripts. In my Latin scripts, I see bold and italic and underline all the time and obviously I need a way to mark the
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by AlienRobot 3y ago
I understand, but by this logic, no technology matters so long as it gets the pixels on the screen, because that's what the user ultimately sees. In that case, why even use HTML at all? Just upload a huge JPEG that looks like a page an
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by AlienRobot 3y ago
I've always felt the main use case of HTML is for a single page document, like PDF. When it's for that, it excels at what it does. But when you have a website with multiple pages where 90% of the HTML is copy pasted from the rest,
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by AlienRobot 3y ago
Funny you mention that. I'm writing a plugin to replace Wordpress default markup for the ITALIC button, BOLD button and UNDERLINE button to , , and , instead of the nonsensical , , and
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Ask HN: Who is consuming all these semantic HTML tags?
28 points by AlienRobot 3y ago|47 comments
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by AlienRobot 3y ago
I noticed this same risk-averse "generic" phenomenon about article bodies. I was trying to design a wordpress theme for my blog and I was googling some things and readings articles. I had multiple tabs open and while I was in the