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Re: HTML Periodic Table

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Post by JdeBP »

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…

See the follow-on story at https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150423/08252130770/desig... .

Re: HTML Periodic Table

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Post by Theodores »

SquareWheel wrote: post #30
Theodores wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is! With a few span elements and icons in i elements! The joke is that there are articles from a decade ago talking about the end of everything being a div and the new markup taking over. It never happened. Instead we got the frameworks that double down on divs. Then the website builder things that take div nesting to another level. Seriously if anyone on this site has a website created the proper way with accessi…

Well, you asked. Critique me I guess. https://wescook.ca/ Source: https://github.com/WesCook/wescook.github.io

Top marks!

I only tested two pages - didn't read them - but your element vocabulary is excellent. I learned about 'dark mode' and how to do it properly.

Bravo!

Re: HTML Periodic Table

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Post by SquareWheel »

Theodores wrote: post #32
SquareWheel wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, you asked. Critique me I guess. https://wescook.ca/ Source: https://github.com/WesCook/wescook.github.io

Top marks! I only tested two pages - didn't read them - but your element vocabulary is excellent. I learned about 'dark mode' and how to do it properly. Bravo!

Hooray! Thanks!

Re: HTML Periodic Table

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Post by Theodores »

MaxLeiter wrote: post #29
Theodores wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is! With a few span elements and icons in i elements! The joke is that there are articles from a decade ago talking about the end of everything being a div and the new markup taking over. It never happened. Instead we got the frameworks that double down on divs. Then the website builder things that take div nesting to another level. Seriously if anyone on this site has a website created the proper way with accessi…

It’s small and short, but https://github.com/MaxLeiter/maxleiter.github.io/blob/master... was my first time exploring elements like aside and article rather than using div in their place

Getting there...

IMHO you need to ditch the wrapper divs and put a single 'main' in there. Then you need to apply CSS Grid to the outer container with something sensible for the outer rows to do the wrapper thing more succinctly. Also get rid of the div around the footer.

There are also a few spans too many around the links at the start of each article, if you can do things with pseudo elements instead then I think you will like it that way - moving presentational stuff out the document into the stylesheet.

Also be bold with the classes. If you are using elements instead of divs then you can style them without the class tags.

Don't take these points as criticisms, there is a lot to unlearn with CSS grid and using proper elements instead of the usual divs. I don't think you need the armbands any more, it is good to see!

Re: HTML Periodic Table

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Post by yakshaving_jgt »

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…

My goodness, that story is truly incredible.

This Alara Mills is an utterly reprehensible character, and her comments are astounding.

> I find it very suspicious that Josh Duck and Mike Riethmuller are both from Australia but claiming not to know each-other

…WHAT?! Australia is a country of 25 MILLION people! We don't all know each other!

She seems to have disappeared from the Internet, or now identifies as a jazz vocalist of some sort. If it's the same person, she seems(?) to have photoshopped her face onto the body of another woman[0]. Maybe I'm wrong about that, but if I'm not, is that also possibly illegal?

[0]: https://www.alara5star.com/

Oh my god it keeps getting better[1]

> The artist is inspired by the likes of Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, and Anita Baker, to name but a few. AlarA’s vocal skills and enthusiasm for music easily puts her on par with these powerhouse vocalists.

She compares herself to Whitney Houston!

[1]: https://www.alara5star.com/about/

Re: HTML Periodic Table

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Post by underwater »

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…

It's amazing that people remember this! Alara actually filed a suit against me, and that's when I learned the difference between being right, and being right in the eyes of the law. It involves lots of money being thrown at lawyers.

On the plus side, I later got to meet Mike (the other Australian who she thought I was in cahoots with) and later rebuilt the table into https://allthetags.com/, which is a lot more colourful but a lot less punny (shake your phone to learn something new).

Re: HTML Periodic Table

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Post by [deleted] »

Theodores wrote: post #25
octocode wrote: post #10

I thought HTML was just

It is! With a few span elements and icons in i elements! The joke is that there are articles from a decade ago talking about the end of everything being a div and the new markup taking over. It never happened. Instead we got the frameworks that double down on divs. Then the website builder things that take div nesting to another level. Seriously if anyone on this site has a website created the proper way with accessi…

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Re: HTML Periodic Table

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Post by benj111 »

onion2k wrote: post #27
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…

The problem is that this one isn't periodic. That word describes how things in columns (eg with the same mathematical period) have the same properties. Without that feature it's just a table.

Agreed, but there seems to be a reasonable explanation, so I'm not about to start complaining.

Plus it's described on the website as a periodical table, so I'm not even convinced the author is claiming it to be a periodic table.

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