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Oh you get a gold star! I literally just wept reading your Tweet. Somebody who cares about real content? I thought I was in a group of about 10 endlings.
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It's against the law in Texas though. Sorry I just can't get over the tacos in El Paso thing I hate El Paso. Maybe it's just me?
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And what a World Wide Wonder it would be if we remembered content is where meaning exists and we learn to use elements that match that meaning AKA semantics in relation to content before adding dependencies and style for various devices and user agents. Way retro, I know! 馃槣
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Why are you so hell-bent on going to El Paso. You have been to El Paso right? It's not a vacation destination. Tacos yes you'll find great tacos in El Paso. But trust me you don't have to go to Texas to have a great taco. I really hope you have another reason to be in El Paso LOL
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It didn't work? Specificity. Get out yer !important and we'll have a World Wide Web party when it works because you'll be using it for what it was meant for and not what people think it is meant for!
I've never retweeted myself before and it feels odd but here we are. Anybody here ever write a user style sheet for themselves or anyone else?
Well see there was this thing in CSS called user style sheets that you could use to write your own styles that would override those provided specific to your needs. You can still do it. Why don't we know about it probably as the primary use case was largely for accessibility.
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Well see there was this thing in CSS called user style sheets that you could use to write your own styles that would override those provided specific to your needs. You can still do it. Why don't we know about it probably as the primary use case was largely for accessibility.
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Please please don't blame yourselves or think you're not good at something you're not being empowered with consistent education and deep understanding of a presentation language that began being developed in 1994 and didn't see browser support stabilize until the early 2000s.
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CSS is not taught consistently or well as an actual language. Typically we learn by creating effects or visual design. Who teaches specificity these days? Or understands the reason for! Important? Finding good teachers who teach the language now that is hard!
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Tweets like this AR very disconcerting to me because today's developers are not dealing with multi-engine backward compatibility in browsers different document object model and ie6 for 5 years. We sadly have yet to create a standardized rubric in education and in our profession.
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We are often Our Own Worst critics and I am indeed very hard on myself in this regard. I didn't realize the fragility of what we had and what was going to happen once we really hit the world of many devices where the device became the Form and Function became the language.
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When Dave Raggett at the w3c first proposed tables for tabular data, tables for layout were in his early work. Of course the slice-and-dice single-pixel gif method was not. That was David Siegel in his best selling book Creating Killer Web Sites for which he actually apologized!
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If accessibility, interoperability, searchability, usability and meaning matter 4 clients and Developers then this move is not a nostalgic one but a very practical and real world statement of what the World Wide Web and declarative language are. Markup and content...start there!
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To answer your original question as a judge I would have to see the HTML and any dependencies and see how the structure and semantics reflect the actual content. Is it easy to translate? Understand and search? Easy to use overall? Meet #a11y guidelines? Yes, my hair is grey 馃槈
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I was old school raised with an ethic that said you don't work for the company you just kicked in the nuts! And actually we really didn't do that we tried to help we definitely did not want a browser monoculture or ie inside of edge as we see now. I mean wtf?
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It's heartbreaking and I have stated outright that I consider it a personal failure that I chose to leave the web standards project because of a contract with Microsoft when in retrospect there wasn't really a conflict of interest as that year and a half was public and open.
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It more than saddens me that the noble ideals and declarative, International, accessible, meaningful, useful World Wide Web is, if known at all, seen as history or afterthought as with #a11y. We as a profession have yet to create an educational rubric or a professional standard.
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