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off topic: Which is correct grammar -- "an HTML" or "a HTML" ? This question has always bugged me.
"an" -- the sound of the H is the key. It sounds like ay-ch.
In all seriousness how it is pronounced can and does change depending upon where you come from.
Actually, this criticism is true when you use HTML for what it was not intended to do : Make pretty renderings. The core functionality of HTML is to provide hyperlinked data. It does that concisely and efficiently. CSS and DIVs are a mere kludge added on top of a language that is supposed to transmit mainly semantical data. I really wish xhtml would have won in place of HTML/CSS. This kind of things would have been f…
I argued with one of my friends about exactly this point. He said that web development is great, that the HTML is semantics, CSS is style, javascript is everything active, everything neatly in their own files. What I said is - look at ANY of top100 Alexa websites and show me ONE where style, semantics and action is not mangled together in one big chaos, where HTML is just semantics and not DIVs put inside each other…
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"an" -- the sound of the H is the key. It sounds like ay-ch.
Silly American, 'H' is pronounced hu-ay-ch not ay-ch. In all seriousness how it is pronounced can and does change depending upon where you come from.
(defmacro unless (cond &body res)
`(if (not ,cond) ,@rest))
body {
width: 800px;
position: relative;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -400px;
}
You're not too lazy to be an HTML developer. You're too lazy to become an HTML developer. But that, after all, is just you being lazy.
Anything you don't know is hard. Four months ago I switched from web development to native iOS work and I couldn't stop complaining how much harder it is - "Who on their right mind thought that creating and managing UI elements in code is a good idea". Fast forward to present day I still find creating UIs in HTML to be faster but the gap is not that big anymore and I really don't care one way or the other.
Are you not using Interface Builder for iOS? You should.
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Silly American, 'H' is pronounced hu-ay-ch not ay-ch. In all seriousness how it is pronounced can and does change depending upon where you come from.
Where are you from Dobbs? In Britain, 'H' should be pronounced ay-ch, but the vast majority of people get it wrong.
Looking it up on Wikipedia says that the standard is ay-ch while the non-standard is haitch (which is a better way of spelling what I meant).
Stop conflating your non-understanding of something with inherent difficulty. You might find the code (defmacro unless (cond &body res) `(if (not ,cond) ,@rest)) rather opaque; but it's actually pretty darn simple. You might find body { width: 800px; position: relative; left: 50%; margin-left: -400px; } impossible to pull out of one's ass; it's not, you're just unused to negative margins. To you, TeX macros or M4 or…
Stop conflating your non-understanding of something with inherent difficulty. You might find the code (defmacro unless (cond &body res) `(if (not ,cond) ,@rest)) rather opaque; but it's actually pretty darn simple. You might find body { width: 800px; position: relative; left: 50%; margin-left: -400px; } impossible to pull out of one's ass; it's not, you're just unused to negative margins. To you, TeX macros or M4 or…
Didn't you just concede and repeat what the post said? Or I fail to see the argument.
I felt too lazy to be a Flex programmer. After years in HTML-land, MXML programming felt like an absolute kludge and Adobe's flex tools were slower than molasses. I was miserable enough doing it that I rejected multiple flex jobs that came my way.
When adobe eventally pause to ponder the Doom hanging over the flash ecosystem, they will realize that it was Flex that killed it.