It is the true teacher who leaves the class knowing they have learned the most.
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Genesis. Trick of the Tail. 1976. Dance on a Volcano, Entangled, Squonk, Mad Man Moon, Robbery Assault and Battery, Ripples, A Trick of the Tail, Los Endos. First album post Peter Gabriel. Journeyed backward through their earlier works thru my teens. Great thread, great answers!
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And, I'd add, levels of severity in the course of our individual lives as well. Moment to moment at times, day to day.
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So the saddened spec rustled the curtains
Questioned the markup of which we were certain
Filled with errors never known before
So that now, to the still beating of our hearts, we stood repeating
"Tis XHTML, a spec retreating . . .
Qoth the browser . . . 404"
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...specifications, standards and no IE6 on our Lenovos
For the rare, single element that worked without gore
in all browsers, it's only this and nothing more...
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Ah, yes it was a bleak November,
as we crying developers spilled our woes upon the floor
Eagerly we wished the morrow: Vainly we had sought with sorrow...
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As I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly I heard a tap tap tapping as a keyboard not so gently rapping, rapping at my DOCTYPEs door -
'Tis the validator' I muttered, 'Asking me what I did that for"
Only to make it work, I swore, and nothing more...
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XHTML NEVERMORE
(2009)
Once upon a web site dreary, while I coded weak and weary
Over many an attribute and forgotten quote...
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After HTML/XHTML WG charter wasn't renewed, I wrote a poem in 2009 "XHTML Nevermore". @afroninja and I met via my Los Alamos Nt'L Lab workshops. Talked about XHTML2 a bit. He dared me to tweet it so start at the title for continuity. HTML semantics fail poetry w/o <poem></poem> !
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It's the one size fits none problem. Why humans are so stuck on the one way is the only way b.s. confounds me. It's extreme exclusion not imaginative inclusion driven ideologically, not pragmatically. Human fail point across any discipline I can imagine. Monoculture != innovation
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LOL! All true and we had a certain browser implementation problem too. I was in the WG fascinated by href attribute module and the concept of href any element when we got flushed. I wanted the option of XML rigor and extensibility evolved along with, not replaced by... ;-)
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..If HTML5 using XML syntax is served with MIME type application/xhtml+xml then this is XML.
Disclaimer on all things series 5: I might be wrong now. Then again, I might be right in five minutes.
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So did anyone? EVER? I did do up a code sample. In Word. For print!
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Tuesday 14 July 2009
HTML5 & XHTML5: MIME is The Answer
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Currently, all the HTML5 / XML “serialization” stuff simply boils down to two straight-forward rules:
If HTML5 using HTML syntax is served with MIME type text/html
This is HTML serialization.
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"The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy."
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee
#WWW #WebDev #WebDesign #UX #a11y #Society #Collaboration #WednesdayThought #QOTD #QuoteOfTheDay
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"In the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history."
- Jamais Cascio
#QOTD #Quotes #WebDev #WebDesign #UX #Tech #TuesdayVibe #Futurism #WWW
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