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Re: HTML Periodic Table

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Post by polymath_potato »

jamescostian wrote: post #9

I have a hunch as to why this table isn't anything like the periodic table of elements. For those that don't know, a long time ago Josh Duck built an HTML Periodic Table that actually resembled the periodic table. It got taken down, because someone else made another HTML Periodic Table (with clearly different organization and a very different look), and then she claimed that Josh Duck's very different periodic table…

I never could have imagined there was so much more to this story. Thank you for the article!

Re: HTML Periodic Table

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy »

polymath_potato wrote: post #11
jamescostian wrote: post #9

I have a hunch as to why this table isn't anything like the periodic table of elements. For those that don't know, a long time ago Josh Duck built an HTML Periodic Table that actually resembled the periodic table. It got taken down, because someone else made another HTML Periodic Table (with clearly different organization and a very different look), and then she claimed that Josh Duck's very different periodic table…

I never could have imagined there was so much more to this story. Thank you for the article!

What a fucking weirdo ... 'I own the Periodic Table and HTML... pay me!'

Re: HTML Periodic Table

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Post by runarberg »

aboutruby wrote: post #5

menu and menu-item are Firefox-only https://caniuse.com/#search=contextmenu

`` is pretty much deprecated[1]. However, `` should work consistently across browsers (at least at a basic level) since it is just a list container (like ``, and ``) representing a list of items to be acted on[2].

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/me...

[2]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/grouping-content.html...

Re: HTML Periodic Table

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Post by ComodoHacker »

I like the idea of memorizing HTML elements by their position in the table. But color coding might be more distinctive, not just a shades of one color.

Also why the group is highlighted when an element is hovered, but not the other way around?

Re: HTML Periodic Table

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Post by tzs »

The periodic table of the elements is useful because it brings similar elements together. A chemist that knows nothing about an element except its position on the periodic table can predict many of its properties based on the surrounding entries of the table.

In fact, if I recall correctly, a major reason Mendeleev is generally the name we associate most with invention of the periodic table of the elements, even though others had tried to organized the elements into tables beforehand, is that Mendeleev was the first to leave gaps in his table when the next known element fit in better somewhere else, and to predict that unknown elements would fill those gaps, and to successfully predict their properties.

I don't see that in this HTML periodic table, or in Josh Duck's table mentioned as the inspiration for the idea.

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