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by bazoom42 3y ago
As far as I can tell, the comment you are replying to is just making shit up. The claim about royalties depending on the cover make absolutely no sense, since it is the publisher who commision the cover design.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Oh yeah, IE 6 did not support display:table. This was the age of hacks. Microsoft basically managed to block any progress on web standards for half a decade. I’m not sure why you’d blame this on W3C though. IE stasis froze any standard incl
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by bazoom42 3y ago
The movement was against using html table markup (<table>, <tr> etc.) for layout because of the accessibility issues. It was not against the CSS display:table since that does not affect accessibility.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
It is still not clear to me why you discount display:table as a valid and useful tool for placing content in a grid. Sure, it is not as sophisticated as Display:grid eg it doesn’t support changing the number of columns depending on the view
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Why would you feel shitty about using ‘display:table’? It puts things into a freaking grid as you asked for.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
> The MOST BASIC NOTION of layout, putting things in a freaking grid, was missing from CSS for almost two decades This is not true. CSS have had ‘display:table’ for 25 years, which is a simple grid layout model equivalent to html tables.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Out of curiosity, can you provide some examples of these books which are artificially expensive, popular in libraries, but not for sale commercially? > Also, publishers often lobby the municipality politicians who set the overall guideli
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by bazoom42 3y ago
All publishers are required to supply one copy of any published book to the royal library (for free). Individual libraries are not required to buy any particular book. They have a fixed budget for buying material and will decid based on qua
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by bazoom42 3y ago
You can always generate the layout in javascript if you have some requirements which aren’t directly supported by CSS layout.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
What do you mean “the deal with the library”? What deal are you referring to? Libraries does not make individual deals with publishers or authors. They buy the books at market price and pay authors some additional royalties determined by ob
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by bazoom42 3y ago
> books they know won’t sell well but will be lent a lot at the libraries This sounds weird. Wouldn’t the books which are lent more also sell more? Childrens books are a big market for book stores and of course they want to sell the most
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Sorry, is publishing a book which gets a lot of readers through the public libraries now “leeching” and “corruption”?
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Presumably you would use AI to generate code for the problem you are solving. If you are working on a React project, you would want it to create JavaScript, not Excel formula.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
The post talks about “intent” which is pretty vague. A more common definition is that imperative code specify a sequence of steps to execute while declarative code specify the desired end state, and the engine have to figure out how to arri
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by bazoom42 3y ago
CSV is not standardized, it might use comma or semicolon as seperator, there are different conventions for quoting and escaping, headers might be included or not. JSON is also hierarchical which makes it appropriate for a wider range of dat
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Funny thing it was the two “unknowns” (compared to superstars Byron and Shelley) who created groundbreaking works.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
How would you crawl the web in the first place if there was no way to recognize a link in the HTML?
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Semantics is what makes both web crawlers and assistive technoligies know that <a href> is a link.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Semantic markup is what makes both web crawlers and screen readers recognize that <a href> is a link to another URL. The web couldnt work without it.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Not inneffective as such, it just presented a confusing user experience because the screen reader would assume the table represented data structured in two dimensions and e.g present navigation options for going cellwise left/right and
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Nobody was guilt-pressured into using floats. You might say some were guilt-pressured into writing accessible web sites but that is a significant destinction. Many public/government web sites were mandated by law to be accessible, so m
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Many public institutions was mandated to follow the WCAG (Web Content Accessibulity Guidelies) which recommend against tables used purely for layout. So it it not really about vague “guilt-pressure”, it is just that many web developers had
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by bazoom42 3y ago
AFAIK no browser use the doctype for anything except for triggering quirks or standard rendering mode in css rendering. But looking at MDN it seems you are correct, all mainstream browsers still support framsets.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
A custom name like <whatever> is not any worse than <span> - both are semantically neutral.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Yes you can do that and it will work. But for future-proofing you should use tag names with a dash in them (like <foo-whatever>) to avoid colissions if html adds an official <whatever> element in the future. (The html standard p
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Are framesets even supported in modern browsers? They have been removed from the html standard.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Sorry are you saying ‘display:table’ was not viable for grid-like layouts because someone might confuse it with the html <table> tag? That is like saying Go is not a viable programming language because someone might confuse it with GO
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by bazoom42 3y ago
> Nearly all layouts people actually want are table-like, and I think CSS really was misguided in its text-flow as layout approach. I think this is the core misunderstanding in this discussion. CSS 2 supported both text-flow and tabular
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by bazoom42 3y ago
The heuristics described still depend on semantic html e.g the use of <th> or <caption> to signal a data table.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
You are probably remembering advice from the dark age of IE6 dominance where display:table was not well supported. I have also seen advice againt using html tables in the early days of mobile browsers since they handled them badly. The prob

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