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

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Post by jraph »

recursive wrote: post #386
jraph wrote: post #380

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You almost got me. After all why not? So I had to go read stuff, and think more about it than I would have. So thanks for this. So: is probably mostly fine, but not great, and not good practice. The ARIA spec [1] says: > 2. Notes on ARIA Use in HTML > 2.1 First Rule of ARIA Use > If you can use a native HTML element [HTML51] or attribute with the semantics and behavior you require already built in, instead of re-purp…

> why use tables when you can use display:table, CSS Flexbox or CSS Grid? The benefit would be that the author can understand how to use it better.

This seems to fall under the unconvincing "I don't really want to learn this stuff". This seems to be the only reason people are tables for layouts today.

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

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Post by jchw »

ChromeForever wrote: post #437
jchw wrote: post #212

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Not that I necessarily advocate for frameset insanity, but you know what? That is a shame. My controversial (?) opinion is that browsers should literally never break anything that was once a part of the web platform unless there's simply no other choice. If the size of it is getting too big... first, stop adding more shit. (And then maybe, implement some old features in terms of some newer ones. Not really "web platf…

I can't agree with this, because it creates a "barrier of entry" for people building new browsers. Old things should deprecate when new things do them better, and deprecated things should phase out. Otherwise, we're stuck with Chrome Forever. I'd rather not.

Disagree. Deprecating things like will not make it easier to build new browsers. Shadow DOM and WebComponents are significantly more complicated for browsers to implement than any old "deprecated" technologies. If you don't want Chrome forever, what you want is not removing old technologies, it's preventing more new technologies from becoming a part of the web platform.

We'll get better at building software. Even with huge engineering teams, we can only build the browsers that we have today due to improvements in large-scale software engineering.

Keep your eye out for Ladybird Browser and Servo.

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

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Post by 14 »

My buddy who does not have kids is continually impressed by my youngest son and how fast he can pick up new skills. Just yesterday my buddy saw a piece of rope and he works building cell phone towers so does a lot of knots with having to climb and haul gear up. He tells my son let me show you a bowline. My son just turned 8. So he showed him once and my son was able do it. I always say let kids try as many things as you can their brain is so capable and so fast to learn things that as an adult take me way longer to do.

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

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Post by mro_name »

Wonderful! Lucky she, has a space to put it unmonetarized and under her (parents) agency and responsibility.

I host a youth computer club and help at holiday camps and see this a lot. Some elementary school kids (girls mostly) love to write.

All you need is to leave all the distracting tech aside (No tools! No frameworks! No cms/ssg! No autocomplete) and have a space without advertising or TOS where the results can be show to friends & family. Some also love to draw with https://twilightedge.com/mac/pikopixel/ on our raspis.

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

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Post by pjerem »

dkarl wrote: post #381
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…

I miss the fun in software development in the workplace. Something has changed. When I started 20+ years ago, people would get excited about something new they learned and rush to tell other people about it. Now everybody is grim, too busy grinding and "managing their visibility" to show any pleasure. If it was just me and my friends who were joyless now, I'd chalk it up to us getting old, but my coworkers who are th…

I’m pretty sure that fun never really disappeared but rather than developers team are now full of non "computer people", like, people who never cared about computers from the start.

I don’t say it like an insult, it’s just that for most people developing things is and have always been a career like any other. We shouldn’t blame people to not be passionate about their jobs. Everyone have to eat and if you are able to perform in this job without passion, you would be stupid not to.

But I agree that for passionate people, it’s pretty depressing.

And even for people who love this, writing SaaS apps 9 to 5 for years can easily shatter the joy of knowing cool things.

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

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Post by yreg »

rokisen157 wrote: post #404
yreg wrote: post #175

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I have great memories of using computers as a little child, including tinkering with html and beginner css. I would never trade them for collecting leaves. Your feelings are not universal.

Those are virtual, don't lie that you was felt it. Photo studios in india still using CRT monitor for setting colours because they don't feel/recogonize correct colours in LCD/LED. Kids are universal even in all species. I can do those tinkering work in my old age which one you did in your golden age. Apart from the shake of argument, I'm really sorry for your loss :(

How dare you be so judgemental. Saying that you are sorry for my childhood is incredibly offensive.

And no, children are definitely NOT universal in the sense you say. They have very different personalities and interests from a very very young age.

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