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sureaboutthis··on Relearn CSS layout
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS

is all anyone needs except the standard itself.

sureaboutthis··on Relearn CSS layout
Flex is great for one directional layout within a box. It is not great for two dimensions which most layout is concerned with.
sureaboutthis··on Relearn CSS layout
> Things like SwiftUI and React are showing that declarative UIs can be built by tying the style to the layout

That's what we call JavaScript and CSS. You can do that without React and my company has been doing that for 15 years quite successfully--with separation of the elements and styling.

How do you think SwiftUI and React do such things? With JavaScript and CSS!

(Sorry if I have factual errors about SwiftUI cause I really don't know anything about it.)

sureaboutthis··on Bald Eagle Filmed Swimming
Clams got legs!

http://albanydish.blogspot.com/2013/09/clams-got-legs.html

sureaboutthis··on Chromium and the Browser Monoculture Problem
Nothing makes it into the standard until there are at least two implementations in browsers. The standard is based on implementation, not invention by anyone.
sureaboutthis··on Chromium and the Browser Monoculture Problem
I've been saying this about dev.io since it's beginning. It's the place for frustrated redditors trying to make a name for themselves but only making fools instead. Do not bother reading anything there. It's as worthless and pointless as reading anything on reddit.
sureaboutthis··on Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>
Using the name "toast" for this is equivalent to emojis and has no place in professional software and its specifications.
sureaboutthis··on Stop and Shop now has big, goofy-looking robots patrolling its aisles
In fact, that's exactly the purpose of the one in our local grocery chain's stores (Schnuck's in St. Louis). It scans the shelves for inventory.

It's not as big as the one shown in the article and I don't see it all day, every day, though I wonder if I've just gotten used to seeing it and now am blind to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZBeV4hHAak

sureaboutthis··on Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>
It probably would have helped enormously if they had given it a professional name other than "toast".
sureaboutthis··on Couple wins millions using lottery loophole
I first read about these people a year or so ago so CBS "news" has finally caught up.
sureaboutthis··on Is it time to treat sugar like smoking?
I have a feeling most of the addiction came from the food and drink industry. Perhaps the amount of sugar contained in the industry provided foods should be restricted to some sane amount and not a quantity to induce you to eat it. This way, the home cook can control their sugar intake and the home cook cannot produce the number of available goods one eats by just picking it off the shelf at a store.

Higher end restaurants that cook their own food won't be restricted this way either and that's a good thing because one goes to such places for food you don't normally get at home but fast food restaurants get most of their food from factory stores where sugar content can and should be restricted for the same reason grocery store food should--sweetening foods makes you want them more.

sureaboutthis··on CSS Grid Level 2 – subgrid is coming to Firefox
That's not page layout as we're talking about. That is one of the proper uses of float.
sureaboutthis··on Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
If it's not game like then 20-somethings and younger--especially younger--won't bother. But these youngins are not what you want when you're trying to learn something. Especially professionally and the professionals are more likely to be on IRC without any green behind their ears.
sureaboutthis··on CSS Grid Level 2 – subgrid is coming to Firefox
Similarly to tables, floats were not created for layout and shouldn't be used for layout anymore.
sureaboutthis··on Why aren’t more companies remote-first?
In a professional environment, I've always been able to take off for such things whenever I wanted without such things. "Hey, boss, I have to run to the bank. Be right back," was all that was required. I really didn't even have to tell the boss. Often a co-worker or a secretary would do.
sureaboutthis··on The Backlash to Plastic Has Oil Companies Worried
Oil may be the easiest solution to the original problem. If there were no oil, would there have been a different solution that might have been as easy?
sureaboutthis··on A Tiling Desktop Environment
Yep. Thank you.
sureaboutthis··on Confessions of a Reddit Karma Whore
I was a reddit troll. Or at least that's what they called me. It started when I got involved in a sub where I am a fairly well-known expert. I would correct people. Get blasted cause I wasn't nice or they thought my answer needed any number of corrections. Then it got to the point where the number of questions and comments were so out of the realm of reality I couldn't stand to read them.

Then I started questioning people and I came to a stark realization. 80% of the people in several technology threads were kids under 18 years old--typically 15--and had no work experience in the field!

But this is my point. Karma on reddit means less than nothing to anybody outside of reddit postings and, even then, it doesn't mean anything to 80% of all those people cause they won't look at or notice your karma anyway. So what's the point? What is the value in that?

Despite my troll reputation, and you may know me, I still have nearly 10K in karma value. What does that tell you?

When I'm in my social and family circles, I almost never hear anything about reddit and, when I do, it's always a joke about an insane posting where everyone laughs at how stupid it is.

I'll never forget the comment of a reporter on NPR one day who stated, "Reddit is a Frankenstein's monster even they can't control".

sureaboutthis··on News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
Maybe off topic but I hope everyone gets my point.

My soon to be niece-in-law (she's engaged to my nephew) has a journalism degree from a well-known university in that field. She's now a news producer for a large television station.

Last week, I caught her on camera reviewing dog toys with her dog and the best blenders during the morning news.

Things have stooped to that level.

sureaboutthis··on CSS Grid Generator
You are correct but many decried the use of tables for layout as far back as 1999.
sureaboutthis··on CSS Grid Generator
Tables are inflexible and inaccessible. Cells cannot be moved or resized without considerable effect on other cells.

No developer worth his salt has ever used tables for layout since some time in the 2000s. The guy who first thought up such a thing, David Siegel, wrote an article in 1999 titled, "The Web is Dead and I Killed it" about how he killed the web because of it and regrets it all.

sureaboutthis··on CSS Grid Generator
Which is why you do not and cannot target devices cause you cannot know what the user has set such things.
sureaboutthis··on CSS Grid Generator
You haven't looked hard enough and aren't aware of all the issues with using tables for layout.

In addition, the attributes you show are now obsolete and non-conforming: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/dev/obsolete.html#non-conformin...

sureaboutthis··on Banned bread: why does the US allow additives that Europe says are unsafe?
Yep. That's what I've heard.

I bake sourdough and other breads every other day at home but baguettes are one bread I have not been able to get right yet though I haven't spent enough time trying to figure it out. I know there must be one simple step I'm not doing or doing wrong.

sureaboutthis··on W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM
Well, now I have to rewrite my book :)
sureaboutthis··on Banned bread: why does the US allow additives that Europe says are unsafe?
And it's also available on every street corner (an exaggeration I know) managed by shopkeepers who stayed up all night but they aren't feeding millions of people.
sureaboutthis··on Banned bread: why does the US allow additives that Europe says are unsafe?
"Factory" bread can be "disgusting" because it's made to feed the masses and gain market share, not taste good. For the same reason hamburgers at McDonald's are not as good as those made at a quality restaurant or at home.

Good bread, as with any good food, typically takes time and quality ingredients. You won't find that in mass produced food. That costs too much.

sureaboutthis··on W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM
Yes. It was your outliner I was thinking of, not a validator but weren't you involved with the original http://validator.w3.org/nu/ at least in part?

I, too, served my web pages as "real" xhtml 10 years ago and loved it :)

sureaboutthis··on W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM
Not true. XHTML and HTML have validators to check your markup for proper syntax and usage. You know that. You made one of them!

Good writers of markup will always check with those before they ship it. In the case of user supplied markup, that's still an issue today with HTML.

sureaboutthis··on W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM
I never understood that either except, as you said, for the hobbyist's sake. A lot of XHTML was generated from XML and, if one is using XML, chances are programming is involved in the transformation to XHTML. But programming has strict rules itself and will also fail if not adhered to so I never understood the complaint of "draconian" error checking in XML/XHTML.
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