in this day age, getting past the captcha, false positive bot detection, proving a us based mobile number, etc etc... is harder to get kids started than the actual coding.
My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
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Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
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I know you're not entirely serious, but we really had it good and largely figured out with tables. It's probably because using tables for layouts was my native language, but I still sometimes have to mentally translate divs into a table in my mind to picture what is happening, and when default types are change (like block to inline, etc) it sometimes breaks my brain and I have to fallback to experimentation to get wh…
Tables aren't even deprecated. IMO you're better off keeping the tables than transforming it into soup. 20 years ago you'd hear it shouted from the rooftops: "Tables for layout are not semantic!". Guess what? s are never semantic. Just use tables if it suits you.
Counterpoint: no semantics is better than wrong semantics. If a screenreader thinks your layout is a (data)table, it makes your visually impaired users sad.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kind of reminds me of the quote from the Steve Jobs movie: "The most efficient animal on the planet is a condor. The most inefficient animals on the planet are humans. But a human with a bicycle becomes the most efficient animal. And the right computer -- a friendly, easy computer that isn’t an eyesore but rather sits on your desk with the beauty of a tensor lamp -- the right computer will be a bicycle for the mind.…
Internet tells me that human is not the most inefficient, but pretty much down on the list. Sorry to be that guy, but to me a joke or quote needs to be true to impact :( https://ghijklmno.net/a-bicycle-for-the-mind/
Funny, another commenter posted both videos, Steve Jobs saying it and Steve Jobs the film. Steve Jobs says what you say. Hollywood says it the other way. I suppose it also wouldn't be surprising if Jobs rehearsed this Hollywood-style for his interview.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#334> Cats are about 2 feet that means six times there height would be about 12 feet. That would be a very terrifying cat
Yes it would. There's something wonderful about the paths that a mind that hasn't been fully toned the way society wants it to explores.
Well done.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#335Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kind of reminds me of the quote from the Steve Jobs movie: "The most efficient animal on the planet is a condor. The most inefficient animals on the planet are humans. But a human with a bicycle becomes the most efficient animal. And the right computer -- a friendly, easy computer that isn’t an eyesore but rather sits on your desk with the beauty of a tensor lamp -- the right computer will be a bicycle for the mind.…
Internet tells me that human is not the most inefficient, but pretty much down on the list. Sorry to be that guy, but to me a joke or quote needs to be true to impact :( https://ghijklmno.net/a-bicycle-for-the-mind/
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Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#336Good webpage
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#337> Cats are about 2 feet that means six times there height would be about 12 feet. That would be a very terrifying cat Yes it would. There's something wonderful about the paths that a mind that hasn't been fully toned the way society wants it to explores. Well done.
Very well said. A 7yo is probably closest to their true „themselves” they will ever be.
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#338it's good to see a little person having fun with all this technocrap that us grognards have gotten so bitter about over the years/decades. :) i hope she continues to have a blast! (from the dedication page in SICP:) “I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and t…
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Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#339I did this exact thing with my daughters (7 and 6)! They have a little guestbook with a password so friends and family can leave them messages.
Beats an expiring gmail address
Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
#340Exactly as I would do it if I were a 7yo. Speak what you will about the virtues of CSS and semantic markup, these things get in the way of having fun. And can be learned later.
The issue with this is that it lacks the semantic - styling separation of proper modern HTML with CSS. Like compare that mess to the elegant semantic structure of a state of the art webpage like google.com
I imagine those class names are the vocalizations of some hapless user agent.
> Open up wide! Here comes some 'content'! Quit complaining, you can handle it!