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Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by tannhaeuser »

skgough wrote: post #286
nathell wrote: post #29

Exactly 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.

I agree with you, but for shits and giggles, to modify this to be evangelist compliant, you could write this instead: Which isn't much more complicated, and makes it clearer what's going on. I wonder if there is a transpiler like Elm that could take a single file written in a simplified language and gave you an HTML5 compliant webpage? You could argue that all the XML-but-not-actually-XML crap in HTML (angle brackets…

Are you serious? Embedding a language (CSS) into the string literals of another one (HTML) is of course much more complicated, and needlessly so.

Also, there's nothing XML-but-not-actually about HTML. Both HTML and XML are derived from SGML.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by jstanley »

HaZeust wrote: post #248
volkadav wrote: post #158

it'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…

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.…

We were promised bicycles for the mind, but what we got was public transport for the mind.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by hnlmorg »

erksa wrote: post #283
johannes1234321 wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would love having a backup of my websites from ~1995. But maybe my memories are more exciting than the plain truth.

One of mine was caught by the wayback-machine, unfortunately before I ever got to add any of the menu or content functionality. http://web.archive.org/web/20040207221902/http://home.no.net... I started when I was 9, using Word as the editor. This was 5 years later and I was 14 at the time), I both wish and am ok with the content no longer being there. At least I can go back humor myself on what I put in the side-navi…

I removed a lot of my older content from the Wayback Machine out of paranoia that future employers might find it and judge current me based off that. Pretty silly in hindsight.

I do still have code archived by Planet Source Code though.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by bostik »

jstanley wrote: post #362
HaZeust wrote: post #248

Earlier 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.…

We were promised bicycles for the mind, but what we got was public transport for the mind.

In true South Park style.

Mr Garrison would be proud.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by nyanpasu64 »

andrewfurey2003 wrote: post #260

No pop ups No cookies Loads quickly. Only thing is the cloudflare pages analytics js. Frontend masterpiece lol

:( Cloudflare automatically adds client-side JS analytics in pages it serves, unless you opt out: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/how-to-remove-analytics-t...

Though uBlock Origin blocks the JS tracker already.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by xenadu02 »

volkadav wrote: post #158

it'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…

When some people were proposing Swift remove the ability to use Emoji in variable names this was my reply:

> It’s hella presumptuous to decide that I’m not allowed to express whimsy, frustration, humor, or any other emotions in my code. Or to tell an 8 year old using Playgrounds on the iPad that he/she can’t name a variable :pig: purely because they find it funny. We don’t have to squash the joy out of everything.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by efilife »

Great site! I wish I had started at her age

> Cats are about 2 feet that means six times there height would be about 12 feet. That would be a very terrifying cat

> That means that there warm blooded

> there looking forward

Hope you told her how to differentiate between there and their though :-)

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